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UK Politics
The lettuce wins! It’s a reference to an on-line contest that drew tens of thousands of tweets, and youtube videos predicting the UK Prime Minister Liz Truss had the shelf life of a lettuce.
The lettuce was left standing at ‘high noon’ as Liz Truss has resigned from office after 44 days, in which she managed to plunge the country into chaos from introducing 45 billion in tax cuts, and crashing the British Pound. She created huge debt which translated into higher interest rates effecting millions of people with higher mortgage rates.
Truss had to fire her Chancellor, and quickly appoint another to create financial stability, and at then end of the road all her economic plans were trashed and so was she by her own political party.
Buh bye Truss, and next week Conservative party which was elected until 2026, will choose a new leader. More on that in a moment…
By the way as a Prime Minister Truss will receive 115,000 pounds a year for life! Not back for leaving a financial and political mess and being the shortest serving leader in Britains history.
The opposition is demanding an election which would be won by the opposition Labour Party according to polls. The Conservatives, soon to be on their fourth P.M. say no way.
So who will be the new P.M. in Britains political circus? Bring on the clown. Former P.M. Boris Johnson who was thrown out of Number 10 Downing St after throwing lockdown drinking parties and lying to Parliament and his political party is now flying back from the Caribbean announcing he will take part in the leadership contest.
Horrors! Because under Johnson there was only turmoil here and scandal, and his return to politics is seen to be a bad joke at this point.
Johnson may not win, (he actually might win say experts if there is a second ballot), but his entry into the ‘rat in a sack fight’ in the Conservative race will undermine real candidates like former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, or Penny Mordaunt, or Ben Wallace.
In the meantime, inflation is running at 10% here as people are having trouble putting food on the table and heating their homes. This political crisis comes at the worst time for the country. (Someone would be happy to eat that victorious lettuce now).
The race for a new P.M. is incredibly short. One week only! Stay tuned for more confusion and disorder in the U.K.
Other News…
-Britain and the European Union imposed a fresh round of sanctions aimed at Iran on Thursday, this time over providing drones that Russia has used to strike battlefields and civilian targets in Ukraine. The sanctions will target the company that manufactures Shahed-136 drones and three Iranian generals.
-Russia says Ukraine may blow up a dam in Kherson flooding dozens of towns and villages. Ukraine says in fact it’s Russia that has laid mines there and is planning to destroy the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. Ukraines leader Zelensky is warning that such an attack could flood the critical city of Kherson and cause cooling issues at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
-Just when we all are demanding social media companies take action to secure offensive content Elon Musk told potential investors that he planned to cut nearly three quarters of Twitter’s 7,500 workers once he was in charge of the company. The planned cuts may in fact be deeper.
-New Covid variants may be immune to vaccines and boosters. And on Back Story a Washington Doctor says the CDC sat on the info.
And we discuss the ongoing uprising in Iran, and how the Ayatollah’s Revolutionary Guard may be splintering.
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Have a nice weekend everyone.
Dana Lewis