I predict ever more political chaos. It has become a Trump-alike entertainment show, with Boris as the star. Fortunately, the MPs vote is secret, but arm twisting is Tory stockintrade. It’s becoming more nasty, even for the nasty party.
The showman returns. From the astonishingly sudden rise, via the Boris bots & former kippers, there is a hidden populist plot to return him to the premiership. I smell Steve Bannon behind the plot & Putin behind him. MAGA comes to the UK.
Imagine that his clique can really create #Boris cult. MOBO: Make Our Britain Ours again. Like the Barmy Army of old, but harmful rather than harmless. MOBO populist mobs will spring up, apparently spontaneously, loudly supporting #Boris for PM. If successful, more chaos ensues.
This #Boris plot sheds light on the political undercurrents of the past six years. We know that Putin has been funding neocon divisionary politicians across Europe 🇮🇹 🇭🇺 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 inter alia. We know that BJ suppressed the Russia Report theguardian.com/world/2020/jul…
The interference is obvious. Today, at war, it must be hidden deep in the spymaster’s web, with BJ as another victim. Fortunately in Britain we have a long tradition of expecting decency & honour in our politicians, and any #Boris cult will fade away c/f Mosley’s in the 1930s.
The danger comes from BJ coming second in the race to become PM. The constituency members might elect him.
This whole process is both unseemly and undemocratic, although understandable given Tory MPs’ self interest. Hopefully enough of them will recognise the danger, put Britain first, and call for a General Election.
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So Moody’s has downgraded the UK as a “warning sign” re the volatility of £ & UK politics. One of the rating agencies that awarded top grades to junk bonds etc in the #GFC. A 100 yrs ago Moody himself gave the UK our now lost top rating. How times change. C/f £⬇️ since then.
Clearly governments were in charge of the markets then. And now, shockingly, markets seem to be in charge of governments! The “markets” are warning the UK to appoint the right finance minister and maybe PM. [lunch beckons, more to follow]
Let’s be clear, BJ does *not* have a mandate to govern the UK. The meme comes from the populist plot to divide & create chaos. Incredibly, we are seeing Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine (2007) in action. Our global political-economic-energy system #capitalism has been corrupted.
The UK’s unwritten constitution has the PM as primus inter pares, first among equals. He/She is not elected by popular demand, but in secret ballots in orderly elections. The UK’s constitutional checks & balances are in @HouseofCommons rules & procedures that BJ likes to flout.
So how has our Western version of #capitalism been corrupted? My guess is by the pursuit of money, and the gradual, insidious spread of insider trading in markets, the buying & selling of politicians & policies, and regulatory capture by those being regulated.
Good people across the country recognize both that there is a climate crisis and a cost-of-living crisis. Remember how we can together during the pandemic to support and help each other. The twin crises demand it. Love our neighbours, literally.
In Cambridge I’ve been asking shop keepers how they are managing the inflation. I’ve been overwhelmed by their concern for their customers. Everyone remembers how we came together during the pandemic and the Queen’s funeral.
I asked how they coped with rising prices. Impressively, to a person, they keep prices constant until the prices of their suppliers go up, then they keep the same margins as before. This is ethical good behaviour and everyone understands and appreciates it.
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.
#TheScienceofMoney is the core of #SpaceTimeEconomics Money, as a social construct in evolution, is as critical & crucial as the discovery of fire. Both transformed the prospects of those who adopted them. This is social evolution.
Money lubricates transactions; it allows us to reduce risks; perceptions of enough of it can make us content; it is simultaneously beautiful, desirable, neutral, & dangerous. It is a tool, an idea, a way of ascribing responsibility, a tracking mechanism. It has multiple meanings.
“Money makes the world go round”, “Money, money, money”, if only I/we/they had enough, “they are moneyed”, “who needs money?” If you & I are not careful, money can dominate thoughts & hopes. The sunlit uplands are paved in gold. The magic. Love of money is “root of all evil”.
What does economic #integrality mean? The word is used in mathematics & economics. In economics, it is related to the concepts of integer & integrity, and has both an everyday & a maths meaning. It means that a resource, defined very widely to include people, is “fit for purpose”
The mathematical meaning of #integrality requires knowledge of set theory and “space-time” economics. In the set of resources, very widely defined including humans, the earth and black holes, there are good resources and bad resources.
Good resources, here and now, are a Vermeer painting, a loved hymn, Mother Earth, a view of earth from a very distant planet. Bad resources are rubbish strewn across a road, a polluted stream, a sick city.