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Likely next Conservative PM Liz Truss appears to be turning the UK Conservatives into the English Conservatives by attacking Scottish and Welsh leaders. The Conservatives have also done a good job of alienating Northern Ireland through their throwing roadblocks up to the Brexit agreement with the EU to implementing the agreement with regard to Northern Ireland. We may yet see the death of the not so United Kingdom in the long run as the last of the colonials break free. 

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WATCHING the Conservative dog and pony show, SNP president, Michael Russell said: “What is clear from Liz Truss and her audience is that the UK Conservatives are now a profoundly anti-Scottish party. It is up to Tories in Scotland to prove they aren’t by publicly disagreeing with UK Tory leadership rhetoric.”

It is worth pointing out that Liz Truss may not merely be “anti-Scottish” as Russell says. She ­appears to be anti-Welsh as well. She claims the Labour First Minister of Wales, Mark ­Drakeford, is a “low-energy version of Jeremy Corbyn”.

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/20606087.rishi-sunak-liz-truss-uns...

The UK oligarchy has clearly said it is US all the way. No to the EU and no to China but yes to the US. It remains to be seen how that will benefit the people of the UK compared to the Etonian crowd.

MOATS Ep 171 with George Galloway (and vid)

https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1563948411438735361

Maria Farmer, Lindsey Snell and Carl Zha. White colonialism, Ukraine and China...

Liz Truss is Already the Bad Prime Minister Everyone Expected Her To Be

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/liz-truss-is-already-the-bad-prime...

"...As soon as the 'mini-budget' was announced the pound sterling tanked. This not only against the overvalued US dollar but also compared to the rather weak Euro.

Boris Johnson may be back as Prime Minister sooner than anyone expected."

How Britain's Labour Party Became A Criminal Conspiracy Against Its Members

https://www.mintpressnews.com/britains-labour-party-became-criminal-cons...

Truss has been forced to cancel her tax cuts for the rich because of the public's and market's reaction and the crashing currency. 

 British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Monday ditched her signature plan to cut taxes for the country's top earners after it triggered market turmoil and a huge domestic outcry.

Truss, who is less than a month into the job, proposed removing the top tier of income tax — meaning a saving for people who earn more than 150,000 pounds ($168,000) a year — as part of a set of unfunded economic reforms that caused the pound to fall to historic lows and damaged Britain's economic standing globally.

The pound rose after the announcement to around $1.12 — about the value it held before the Sept. 23 budget announcements.

The dramatic reversal comes just hours after Truss defiantly defended the tax cut and her broader radical economic agenda, saying it was necessary to solve the country’s long-term economic woes. Faced with a growing political rebellion after days of economic chaos, the government said early Monday it was abandoning the plan.

The embattled finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, was due to defend the plan in an address to the ruling Conservative Party’s annual conference. “We must stay the course. I am confident our plan is the right one,” he was due to say, according to released advance extracts of the speech.

Instead, he announced the plan was being scrapped in an early morning tweet. "We get it and we have listened," he said, followed by a similar message from Truss.

The abrupt about-face comes as the Conservatives gather in the central English city of Birmingham for an annual conference, normally a morale boosting event for activists to hear about the party's priorities for the year ahead.

Instead, the party finds itself in embarrassing retreat with a resurgent opposition center-left Labour Party about 20% ahead in opinion polls. With the country already facing a grim winter of soaring energy bills and food prices, critics accused Truss of having misplaced priorities and intensifying the pain for many.

Labour's finance spokesperson Rachel Reeves said: "The Tories have destroyed their economic credibility and damaged trust in the British economy."

For some political commentators, the reversal is too little, too late.

"The damage has been done," said Simon Usherwood, a politics professor at the Open University. "It has still created an image of a government that thought this was a good idea."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uk-pm-liz-truss-scraps-tax-cut-rich-m...

Labour’s leading the Conservatives by 25 percentage points! 50% to 25!! They have double the support of the Conservatives!!! Labour is in huge majority territory!!!!

MOATS - EP 179 with George Galloway (and vid)

https://youtu.be/Xo0k0Mx8x-4

"Give peace a chance? Not if you are UK Labour, calling itself the 'party of NATO.' No one is talking about talks over Ukraine, apart from the Pontiff. And James Melville sketches the UK after Truss flies."

NorthReport wrote:

How many times can a political party in power switch trheir leader before the citizens actually revolt?

With Truss as leader the revolt finally seems to be in full swing. I don’t think the public is going to buy the Conservatives switching their leader again. I think Labour has the next election almost in the bag.

 As a brit wag recently opined, 'that head of iceberg lettuce I just bought will probably last longer in my fridge than Liz Truss in No 10.'

Like the NDP here or the Green Party in Germany etc it certainly isn't UK Labour.