Truss steps down

 

 

Subject: Truss steps down.

It's hard to keep up. We had a period when to get a Tory Minister to resign you needed a stick of dynamite to prise their fingers off the wheel of power. Through the pandemic senior people in the party were accused of giving family and friends lucrative contracts to make desperately needed PPE but no one resigned and no one was brought to the dock to answer charges. Then came the flurry of the 'Party Gate' where ordinary people were aghast to learn that whilst they had been forbidden to mix with more than a very small number of people the politicians, who set the rules excluded themselves and attended Xmas parties, even in Downing Street. This two faced, one rule for us and another for you eventually brought Boris Johnson down and an election by the Tory Party members elected Liz Truss to be the new PM.

She has just resigned, setting the record as the shortest serving Prime Minister and has set the cat amongst the pigeons as the politicians scramble to put forward another candidate on which the Tory membership can chose and anoint as leader of the country.

It's rumoured that even Boris Johnson might be winging his way back to the country as I write to put his name forward on the basis that only he has the charisma to win over a disgruntled country of voters before the next general election in two years time.

There's no doubt that Boris won a stonking 74 seat victory placing the Tories in an unassailable position in parliament but I believe this was largely due to lying about the outcome of leaving Europe (Brexit) and the scurrilous anti Jeremy Corbyn campaign in the media in which he was demonised daily for his socialist policies by the establishment press and made him unelectable to middle England.

The power of the 4th Estate was never more in evidence and shows the weakness in our democratic system, the overpowering influence for good and bad they have on our decisions.