Words fail. How, why, & when did our government come to this? Ask Boris Johnson if he has got what he wished for. He has played Eton games with our governance. Lack of political & economic acumen amongst Tory party leaders is astonishing. All their MPs are being held to account.
I blame #Brexit. They, Tory MPs, blame everything else that they can think of: Putin, the war, and even “remainers”! I can’t stop remembering BJ, now apparently sunning himself in the Caribbean, performing as a real politician over his period in office.
In the UK we are living day-by-day though an unprecedented historical unravelling of a Western government. Caused by a combination of external events, a Tory party actively promoting division during political & economic crises, & 12 years of Tory austerity.
Policies have been forced on @hmtreasury & @bankofengland by an ignorant political elite, Permanent Secretaries have been sacked, unwritten constitutional rules have been undermined, & govts have failed to address the effects of their policies on the country.
Now government has collapsed. The UK’s constitutional solution to this state of affairs is a General Election. This will decisively end #PostTruthEconomics and the careers of a large number of Tory MPs.
So she’s gone. Lord Howard says: it’s not up to me. He wants to keep the Tories in power for ever, despite the evidence of a failed political party before our eyes. We will have had three (unelected) PMs in four months, unelected by the voters, but now chosen by the markets.
The resurrection of “Boris” beggars belief. All these Tory vox pops being terribly dismayed by events now proclaiming him at the saviour of the Party. I suspect a BJ plot co-organised by the Putin-supporting entryists from the now-defunct UKIP. They want #Brexit forever.
One Red-Wall MP Marco Longi crawled out of the woodwork on BBC Open Source. He had a weird large red-and-black chain-link flag behind him. on BBC Open Source, & appealed on script directly to BJ to come back as PM. Others proclaimed BJ as the compromise candidate. Really!
We are enduring an economic catastrophe instigated by a powerful cabal of badly educated & richly endowed journalists/bankers. Where are the morals? where is the integrity? So few of them seem to be thinking of the good of the country, instead of the lining of their pockets.
A General Election is the constitutional solution to this economic chaos. A clean sweep of the Augean stables. It could lead to the end of insider trading & non-dom status. Let the richly endowed pay their fair share of the bill for public services.
The tax receipts are not their money or our money. Legally & morally they belong to the crown, collected by HMRC, & managed by the Exchequer for the public good. @hmtreasury plans the economy & the independent @bankofengland manages Sterling & public debt. Not by credit card.
Appropriate targets in the current situation are as follows. 1) Economic & financial stability, if necessary by curbing market excess. 2) A timed & targeted, street-by-street, program of housing renewal aimed at making homes in the most deprived areas dry, warm, snug & “green”.
3) A #NetZero target to be achieved via #GreenNewDeal & supporting the leveling-up agenda by investing in low/zero GHG-emitting R&D, equipment & structures where it most suits local conditions.
4) Improved public spaces, cleaned up waterways, new intercity walk/cycleways by improving/restoring ancient & Roman byways & traditional rights of way. We should honour our heritage, not frack and burn.
All this treasure comes not from money, but from ideas, imagination & true ambition. It is enabled by money.
For the good of the nation & in the national interest, the @HouseofCommons should dissolve itself. Let the people choose their representatives in Parliament & via them, their delegates in government. Not the City.
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