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The Premiership of Mary Elizabeth Truss.Sept 2022 - Oct 2022

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The pound slipped to $1.15 today and news of her election failed to shift the dial.

Perhaps be good for exports - except we've sh1t the bed with our biggest partner and made exports more difficult so they are also down.

Perhaps help inward investment - except fewer businesses feel inclined to base themselves outside of the single market (unless huge bungs are involved to soften those effects). Surprisingly inward investment is also down.

Nevermind, perhaps coming to the UK (paperwork permitting) to be paid in a currency that is losing value will attract staff to address the crippling shortages in health, social care, retail, agriculture and hospitality - or perhaps not.

She might last longer than May, but I doubt it. Her stated (they change with the wind) objectives are already completely incompatible.
 
Onward and downward. I'm just back from a very pleasant trip to England to visit family. We had a great time, but the NHS is totally broken (mother very ill, waiting months for specialist referral), the trains are totally broken (random cancellations on both trips we tried to make), the currency is in the toilet, and inflation is rocketing. Plus strikes by postal workers, dock workers and now barristers. I fear it will be a terrible winter.
When I left the UK in 1997 it was on its knees after 17 years of Conservative rule, and it seems the Tories have done it again, only this time the damage with Brexit could be even worse. If the Tories win the next election I will lose hope that England will ever recover.
 
Onward and downward. I'm just back from a very pleasant trip to England to visit family. We had a great time, but the NHS is totally broken (mother very ill, waiting months for specialist referral), the trains are totally broken (random cancellations on both trips we tried to make), the currency is in the toilet, and inflation is rocketing. Plus strikes by postal workers, dock workers and now barristers. I fear it will be a terrible winter.
When I left the UK in 1997 it was on its knees after 17 years of Conservative rule, and it seems the Tories have done it again, only this time the damage with Brexit could be even worse. If the Tories win the next election I will lose hope that England will ever recover.
“Plus strikes by postal workers, dock workers and now barristers”
Add rail workers and possibly teachers.
What’s the problem with this?
 
Dominic Cummings remarked, of all the people in government he found Liz Truss to be the most "properly crackers" of them all.
Well and truly bought by the IEA and the US right-wing influence peddlars, and reliant on the ERG and other right-wing nutters in the Tory, we can look forward to a truly right-wing economic agenda.
Tax cuts and trickle-down economics here we come.

This seems appropriate...

https://twitter.com/acjjustice/status/1457504895037317129?s=21&t=tGuK-gLa1_AX45mMHyW_BA
 
On the plus side it could be entertaining & I may get a tax cut;)

The contest was less dumb & dumber but more grim & grimmer.

The fuel crisis is pretty unsolvable in the near term so we need forward planning with renewables & probably nuclear.

A pox on everyone who voted Tory & Brexit, a minor slap with a leather glove to those still moaning about Starmer. Get the Tories out, the sooner the better.
 


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