Climate change even in traditionally mild Britain is having a damaging impact. Brexit looks increasingly unsustainable too. Inequality is also rising, and with inflation fuelled by huge rises in energy bills, the worst is yet to come. Britain’s economy is increasingly battered with rising government debt, falling incomes and rapidly rising poverty. The COVID-19 pandemic has left deep scars and the National Health Service is in ongoing crisis. Candidates are mainly working to appeal to a right-wing membership, arch climate change sceptic Steve Baker MP has pulled out of the race but an orgy of tax cuts for corporations, restrictions on immigration and transphobia mark the pitches of the remaining candidates.īritain’s fundamental problems are deepening. Conservative MPs are balloted successive times until just two candidates are left, the Conservative Party members then vote over the summer with the result in September. Leadership ballotĪs I write, up to 11 candidates look likely to contest the Conservative Party leadership. Last month a vote of no confidence amongst Conservative MPs saw him come close to being ousted. Numerous parties in Downing Street eventually led to investigations, fines and even more lies. Most damming was that during COVID-19 lockdown, when people could be fined for visiting the park and many individuals missed seeing dying family members, Johnson partied. One gets the impression that pointless risk taking and dishonesty is at the core of his character. Johnson committed a kaleidoscope of misdemeanours, he had numerous affairs, tried to promote lovers to paid office, committed sexual acts in the foreign office premises and, above all, lied and lied and lied. Margaret Thatcher was ousted in the 1990s, David Cameron resigned after the Brexit referendum saw Britain vote to leave the European Union, his successor Theresa May was removed by Tory MPs and now they have forced Johnson out. The Conservatives are infatuated with new leaders but quickly become disillusioned and work to boot them out. Conservative Party leaders, rather than stepping down or losing an election, are usually destroyed by their own party. While changes of governing party are rare, changes of PM are more common. The Labour Party have been out of office since 2010, and despite some impressive recent poll leads, their ineffective and dull leader Sir Keir Starmer looks uncertain to reverse the trend. An ageing and increasingly conservative electorate, a huge pile of cash from hedge funds and billionaires and the loyalty of most of the print media, mean in Britain we can freely choose any government we like as long as it is blue - the colour of the Conservative Party. 'One party state?'īritain might be seen as a one-party state, five of the most recent seven prime ministers, since 1979, have been Conservatives. Johnson hung on with everything he had but eventually agreed to stand down. Within two days 50 MPs had resigned government posts, starting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Britain’s finance minister) Rishi Sunak. Having defended Johnson over a wide catalogue of dishonesties in recent months, his ministers decided that this was finally too much. A civil servant wrote to the press revealing that this was a lie. Johnson denied that he knew any of this when he appointed Pincher to the post. Pincher was revealed to have had a long record of drunken sex pest incidents. Pincher resigned as Conservative Party deputy chief whip after admitting to drinking heavily and groping two men in the Carlton Club, the elite club for top Tories. After a scandal hit premiership, the Chris Pincher debacle finally brought him down. Johnson finally seems to have lied once too often. There are fears that the governing Conservative Party, whose shrinking and xenophobic members are to elect a new leader, will pick a new PM even further to the right. Paranoid rumours that he is planning to stay beyond that cannot be entirely dismissed and when he does finally exit, the British political outlook will likely remain cruel and toxic. Yet Johnson hasn’t actually left yet, instead he is continuing in office until October. Britain’s impressively dishonest and disorganised right-wing Prime Minister Boris Johnson is leaving office, and just about everybody is pleased to see the back of him. The Economist magazine celebrated with a front cover proclaiming “ClownFall”.
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