Expect the same shenanigans here if sinn fein get into power . The markets will take fright. How will all the FDI we have digest it. The government is already spending as much money as they can beforehand in order to deny Sinn fein a healthy government revenue situation. So we will have the double whammy of an SF government with bad fiscal situation, high interest rates and alot of debt needing to be refinanced at higher interest rates along with the higher interest rate risk premium associated with SF in powerBoJo was kicked out, and for multiple good reasons, a few months ago.
It's truly pathetic and scary that he traded yesterday, admittedly briefly, at odds-on, on BF.
I get seduced into the entertainment value of all this sometimes. But when I stand back and think about it - my faith in the democratic system overall just gets further and further eroded. You simply can't trust the people and you certainly can't trust the politicians. It's not just the UK - Idiots, can and do and will get elected here, in the US there is the Trump, etc., etc.
Anyway, as peemac says, thankfully it looks like, right now, Sunak has the momentum.
It shows that elected representatives are better at selecting a leader than Party members.So the Tories and the UK will end up with a leader who the majority of his party members rejected as leader. That sounds so like Fine Gael and here.
I suppose the Irish system of multi seat constituencies and clientism would have weeded out the likes of liz truss long ago. However the disadvantages of irish system is that it also weeds out alot of very competent people aswell, you have to be an ultra clientilist like the healy raes to get elected here
I don't agree it wasn't about clientism it was about ideology, it was hardly populist either so they didn't do it for that reason. Boris being a populist would never have brought such measures in either.I would have said Truss and her Chancellor were the ultimate clientists, after all, they gave tax cuts to all their banking and wealthy friends. Their recent budget was aimed squarely at Tory voters in the South, not working class and unemployed in the North of England
The UK is run as a colony of London. All the power and wealth is based there. 200 years of imperialism and colonialism leaves deep impressions on the institutions of State. That's why the region around London is getting richer and the rest of the country is getting poorer. Brexit is a manifestation of that and so it Truss and Boris, they are creatures of the Tory establishment. The Conservative Party is the Party of that London based establishment. Labour is the Party of the rest of England (and Wales). Scotland and Northern Ireland are irrelevant.I would have said Truss and her Chancellor were the ultimate clientists, after all, they gave tax cuts to all their banking and wealthy friends. Their recent budget was aimed squarely at Tory voters in the South, not working class and unemployed in the North of England
The UK is run as a colony of London. All the power and wealth is based there. 200 years of imperialism and colonialism leaves deep impressions on the institutions of State. That's why the region around London is getting richer and the rest of the country is getting poorer. Brexit is a manifestation of that and so it Truss and Boris, they are creatures of the Tory establishment. The Conservative Party is the Party of that London based establishment. Labour is the Party of the rest of England (and Wales). Scotland and Northern Ireland are irrelevant.
Labour have succeeded is making themselves unelectable since Blare. The Unions ensured that the wrong Miliband was elected, Ed was useless, David would have made an excellent PM, and then they doubled down by electing a pro-Brexit Marxist who also happened to be a deeply unpleasant bully. Starmer is reasonably centralist and so is electable.
'Irish Nakus'?I see that the Irish societies for dyslexics and clothing optional campsites have welcomed the elevation of Irish Nakus to the top job.
The people who vote are not the same people who run the government.And yet, London rejected Brexit and the North and midlands voted for it,
I'll but it on the list.I'm currently reading Alwyn Turner's "Rejoice Rejoice". It's a social and political history of Britain in the 80s. I'd well recommend it for anyone with an interest in current UK politics, we tend to forget, for example, just how unpopular Maggie in her first few years of power
You had better emigrate !Expect the same shenanigans here if sinn fein get into power . The markets will take fright. How will all the FDI we have digest it. The government is already spending as much money as they can beforehand in order to deny Sinn fein a healthy government revenue situation. So we will have the double whammy of an SF government with bad fiscal situation, high interest rates and alot of debt needing to be refinanced at higher interest rates along with the higher interest rate risk premium associated with SF in power
Most Irish TDs are not very much like the Healy RaesI suppose the Irish system of multi seat constituencies and clientism would have weeded out the likes of liz truss long ago. However the disadvantages of irish system is that it also weeds out alot of very competent people aswell, you have to be an ultra clientilist like the healy raes to get elected here