“Our policies are respected around the world,” he said. Liz Truss in the last days of her term, while trying to cling to power and calling for the unity of his divided party and his government destroyed. The problem for him was that, as he spoke, his deputies reached the conclusion that, as much as state politics was respected, he was not respected. They have realized what many of us have been warning them for months… they have chosen a worthless as their leader, and as a result, he has become the shortest person to lead a Government in our history.

It is true that British policy before respected. In the past. Our democracy and parliamentary traditions, the spirit of their debate, the expectation that politicians have to tell the truth, and if they don’t, they should resign; the qualities of political leaders who rise to the top; the relative absence of corruption compared to other countries; absolute commitment to the rule of law.

As many of the principles that we have taken for granted so far have been lost, respect for our politics, both at home and abroad, is in the rearview mirror. Lying has been normalized; corruption and cronyism have been normalized; the rule of law and the institutions designed to hold politicians to account have been deliberately undermined. Boris Johnson was forced out of office not because he was a liar and a lawbreaker, two facts that had long been on the minds of the public, but because the deputies Tories they no longer see him as a winner. Now Truss and his mini-kamikaze budget, based on unfunded tax cuts and fiscal incontinence, have crushed mortgages and citizen pensions, Labor opposition has taken the lead in polls unimaginable until now. So he had to go too.

The same lack of self-awareness that made him think he deserved to be prime minister is now infecting Johnson and his supporters, who believe he can return, despite being demoted, and despite the fact that he is investigating whether he lied. Parliament about his party during a state of alert. This raises the tantalizing possibility that he will return to Downing Street, only to be forced out again when the investigation is complete.

The last few days, I sometimes have to turn off the phone, so many messages from abroad asking “what happened to your country?”.

One word to describe the downturn: Brexit

As with any major event or trend, there are no easy answers. But if I was allowed one word to describe how we got here, it would be Brexit.

The June 23, 2016 referendum was one of those moments when a country chose to withdraw. It has now eaten four prime ministers, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, with a fifth due to arrive in a few days. Five prime ministers in six years, four economy ministers in four months; this is the exchange rate used by conservatives to joke around in relation to the Italian or Third World banana republics. Now they are laughing at us all over the world. When former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tweeted that lettuce had survived Truss, it was considered that our country was not taking it as seriously as it used to.

Thanks to Brexit, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, we are seeing not only our economy collapse, but our global reputation as well. Now, the same people who gave us the two worst prime ministers in our history are saying that they’re going to give us the next one, that we have to trust the deputies. Tories to reduce the number of candidates to two, and then allow the party member who gave us Truss to have the last word.

There’s something very fitting about the fact that Johnson went berserk and allowed speculation to run wild that he would seek to become prime minister again despite being recently kicked out of Downing Street. Because the turning point in the decadence that our politics and our country has chosen came thanks to him, his lies and the Brexit they have promoted, and the fact that no one is responsible for them, or that Brexit has happened. promised nothing to do with the Brexit we have now.

It is a testament to his success in utterly lowering the standard of public living that anyone can even begin to imagine that he, a proven liar and lawbreaker, always linked with scandal, should be the answer to the great challenges facing this country. currently faced. But it is a testament to how deep our politics have sunk. That’s just bad.

The good news is that, as a result of the political chaos and economic catastrophe they created, Tories they must be done. After 12 years of unfair austerity programmes, a chaotic and self-destructive Brexit, and now a mini-budget crusher ball, the country has had enough. The chances of a Labor government have risen sharply. That, more than any pure judgment of national interest, explains the desperation Tories to avoid a much-demanded general election. They’re done. And they’re stupid if they can’t see it.

Serious times call for serious government. It Toriesbased on the horror show that was going on before the eyes of the world, they couldn’t provide it.

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