Ah yes, Trussed. Today the 56th and all-time shortest serving UK Prime Minister gave up the ghost of office. Although in the job 44 days, as The Economist pointed out – when you subtract the ten days of country-on-hold for national mourning she was only in power for 7 before her administration imploded. The shelf-life …
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Truss Approval
It might seem odd, but in a way I have to commend Liz Truss’s speed and efficiency. We’ve had three years of Boris Johnson drunken behind the wheel, careening about the road, mounting the kerb and central reservations in turn. A swig of the bottle, a laugh and a swerve; little dents and lost wing …
Happy New Prime Minister
Much to my displeasure someone subjected me to a very tedious extended BBC news commentary on the weather and London traffic today. There were endless discussions on the likelihood of the rain stopping, the dangers of rain to television equipment, and aerial views of some cars wending their way through West End traffic. It seems …
De-Levelling Down Liz
I’ve held my tongue so far on the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas spectacle of the Conservative Leadership selection; think bags of truth-altering drugs and disjoint snarling faces. Ralph Steadman could paint it. There’s a guy who made a fortune in the finance business and a woman on a PR trip. The guy wasn’t …
Dovermergency
The Port of Dover today declared a “critical incident”. A shortage of French passport police caused six-hour queues and tailbacks through Dover and up the motorways. The government blames France. Lookatme Truss, UK Foreign Secretary, is concentrating on vowel adjectives: “appalling”, “awful”, “entirely avoidable and is unacceptable”. This is the same government that caused the …
Good Times to Pick a Squabble
Countries, like people, often disagree. Grown-ups deal with that through negotiation and compromise. Sometimes a bit of petulant shouting is part of the negotiation. Lookatme Truss, UK Foreign Secretary and Self-Publicist has made clear the UK intends to throw its toys out of the pram over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the UK-EU deal her boss …
Truss on Putin
How strange the world has become when this Scotsman finds himself agreeing with Liz Truss, UK Foreign Secretary and Self-Publicist. A Tory of little judgement, akin to Johnson she’s concerned only with herself. In a speech this week she stated Russia should be pushed “out of the whole of Ukraine”, which would imply out of …