Fwiw I hope its truss. And kwarteng. The conservative electorate clearly need another four years in the let's see how badly we can **** ourselves and blame everyone else for what's wrong tumbledryer before they're ready to beg the EU to rejoin..
It wouldnt surprise me to see Tories having rejoin in their next manifesto. If Tories think it would maintain power for them, they, d do it. Starmer /Labour will stick to their "ideals". Since Tories have none, they can adjust to the flavour next election. And Boris could lead it.
That would fit the opportunistic populist boris/trump/le Penn et al approach that's so devoid of ethics. And I can well imagine sections of our electorate are thick enough to fall for it, again. But two snags is it really something to hope for, to aspire to? And, more importantly, because its devoid of integrity, principle, ideal it's the reason why truss came along, with economic "policies" that lacked credibility. In other words the lack of integrity at the heart of conservative politics is the reason why its business model doesnt work - it lacks credibility, which requires principles, planning, long term thinking.
Totatally agreed, but fact remains Tories could easily still be in power post 2024 GE.
As you point out the tories can and will likely lie, expediently offer the electorate more snake oil, sunny uplands. narcissism and psychopathy can be adaptive, can get one ahead in life. But narcissists and psychopaths also invariably leave trails of destruction, betrayal, deceit, broken trust. Much like the conservative party has. and this could be more useful for rehabilitating the electorate than hoping for a starmer that would outlie outdeceive boris.
"Mistakes were made. We have learned" - Eton and Oxford? I'm sick of know-nothing-bozos, particularly if they're leading the country.
Apparently not. The count seems to have slowed to a crawl - it'll speed up after the budget, when (possibly) a savage austerity budget which strangles growth before birth, is unveiled. Time to short the pound for a short time interval? I bet sneaky has forewarned the Hindujas.
Are you expecting the greased piglet to be trotted out, at the second half of the second half, if they sense oncoming GE loss? Some populist leaders are only good at times of war, which the prospect of defeat can be interpreted as such.
I've directly observed populations learning psychopathic habits from their peers, even if they're not psychopaths themselves - they emulate to survive and gain higher position in such groups... which sort of explains why there appears to be a higher proportion of psychopaths in the Tory party than in the general population. But those behaviours sometimes suddenly disintegrate in some individuals, if they don't integrate well enough within, if enough pressure is applied. I'm hoping mass panic at apparent inevitable impending doom, turns the Tory party into a drooling stark staring mad jibbering mess sharpish.
I confess I have't slow jogged since I wrote about it last. Trying to schedule three regular slow jogs a day around my local park is a nightmare - it's flatness is appealing, which should make for consistent slow jogging conditions, and it's the only horizontal area anywhere near me. I'll start with once a day. If you're overweight, it's easier if you haven't eaten for a few hours - allows time for blood pressure to reduce.
Can one really put starmer et al in the same category as the pig or truss (or chunt for that matter, or gove, or smogg)???
Given Starmer's record as the Crown Prosecutor for the country, yes. It set him up nicely with equally unscrupulous politicians to sail into politics.
true Labour = what? there is already a communist party of United Kingdom.
That's an extreme comment.
On a lighter note, who knows who anybody is? Fortunately we have the new musk Twitter to clarify things
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If you mean Blair, No, that's expedient Labour which is a dead end that can never achieve it's goal of socialism. The same expediency that makes it no different from Conservatism, unprincipled winning regardless of the cost to so many.
