Our Next P.M.

And not much better across the Country:



Only 1 in 7 Britons say Truss will be better than Boris Johnson as PM - poll (msn.com)

 

The Lady is not (it seems) 'Un-forgiving'
A peek of the arrogance to come: ?



Liz Truss snubs handshake with Rishi Sunak after winning Tory leadership contest (msn.com)

 

I'm finding it next to impossible to think of the winner as anything more than another caretaker PM until Labour sweeps to power in the next election anyway.

 

It is going to be a gloomy winter

 

It seems there are alrady plans to oust Truss - well what would one expect? - This is after all Tory Politics

 

And so, - Truss, replaces Johnson: - ...

She inherits not so much an in tray as a portal to a nightmare dimension.

• COVID-19 was a headline-dominating crisis. Truss must confront one of those—the imminent spike in energy bills—but also a flotilla of other problems, including high inflation, widespread labor unrest, and long waits for medical treatment. Whatever the opposite of a honeymoon is, that’s what she’s facing. “We will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver,” Truss told the party after her victory was announced—in a flat, boilerplate acceptance speech that was more reminiscent of the awkward, earnest prose of former prime minister Theresa May than Truss’s immediate predecessor, the clownish, charismatic Boris Johnson.
• The first order of business will be tackling the energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year and by increased demand as the pandemic fades. In Britain, the average gas and electricity bills of ordinary households are capped by a regulator based on wholesale costs. By October, the typical bill will be three times what it was 12 months earlier, and it is expected to rise again in January.
• Things are so dystopian that the prize on a breakfast show’s call-in competition today was getting your energy bill paid for the next four months. One well-regarded forecaster expects the average British household to be paying the equivalent of £6,616 ($7,633) a year in gas and electricity bills by April.

Think that’s exorbitant? No price cap exists for businesses and public bodies. Restaurants, museums, nursing homes, and schools are already warning that they cannot cope. Some areas are planning to turn public buildings into “warm banks”—like food banks—for those who can’t afford to heat their homes.

For many white-collar Britons, now used to working several days a week from home, high energy bills might drive them back into offices.

 

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Truss can’t do much about GAS prices on the European wholesale market.
Russia is a major gas supplier to Europe, and Vladimir Putin fully exploits the leverage this gives him in foreign affairs.
Nonetheless, the new prime minister will face enormous pressure to support British households through the winter. So far,
Truss has rejected the idea of more direct support, insisting that tax cuts are her economic focus. Yesterday she said something no British leader has said for decades: that the richest would gain most from her tax policy, and she thought that was fair. “To look at everything through the lens of redistribution I believe is wrong because what I’m about is about growing the economy and growing the economy benefits everybody,” she told the BBC.

 

I don't need my news app with you Wolfy.
I don't respect her ideas of giving more back to the high earners!

 

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Taking a train somewhere?
Brace yourself for the trip to be canceled, or the car full to bursting:
Railway workers have been striking on and off all summer. Waiting to give evidence in a criminal case? The justice system has been beset by delays since the beginning of the pandemic, and prosecutors and criminal-defense lawyers have announced what the BBC describes as an “indefinite, uninterrupted” strike, beginning today.

Want to mail a letter?
Postal workers have two more strike days scheduled in the next fortnight.

Need your cataracts fixed or your hip replaced? Some 6.6 million Britons—2 million more than before the pandemic—are currently on the National Health Service’s waiting list for nonurgent medical care.

Need an ambulance? Over the summer, one 87-year-old man with a cracked pelvis waited 15 hours outside his house after a fall.
His family made him a makeshift shelter out of a soccer goal, trash bags, and umbrellas

 

What makes this omni-crisis even more alarming is how few economic levers Truss can pull.

• She can’t reverse Brexit, or even soften its implementation: = Her party’s activists would eat her alive.
• A classic response to high inflation is to raise interest rates, but this is a fraught decision in Britain, a country bloated with mortgage debt

• In any case, interest rates are set by the Bank of England, rather than the prime minister’s government, to protect them from political interference. Truss made noises about reviewing the bank’s independence during the campaign; yesterday she tried to disavow that suggestion, and is distancing herself from involvment with any kind of intervention (although she may be pressured into involvement)

Bank official calls for forceful rate rises as Truss takes power (msn.com)

 

Message to Boris Johnson as he leaves Downing Street - " Piss off, and good riddance to bad rubbish" !!!

 

Truss challenges:



Policy watch: What Liz Truss will do on the key issues facing Britain (msn.com)

 

The Wrong Truss:



World leaders are sending the wrong Liz Truss congratulations after Prime Minister appointment (msn.com)

 

The Realty "Cheque"



Truss gets an economic reality check: Pound slumps to 37-year low as bank official calls for forceful rate rises and new data suggests recession is imminent (msn.com)

 

Boris 'hints at' Loyalty to Truss
(Let's see how long that lasts)



Johnson pledges loyalty to Truss as he hints at taking back seat – for now (msn.com)

 

(...Tough I've just got to put in my Expenses chits)



Boris could claim £115,000 in 'office costs' after leaving No 10 (msn.com)

 

B.J. Resignation Recommendations:
(Now, who 'actually' is / was, (is my friend)



Johnson expected to appoint allies to Lords in resignation honours list (msn.com)

 

Johnson arrives at Balmoral:



Boris Johnson arrives at Balmoral - YouTube

 

A Royal verses Parlimentary Reign:


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1 Winston Churchill ***** (1874–1965) 26 October 1951 5 April 1955
2 Anthony Eden ***** (1897–1977) 6 April 1955 9 January 1957
3 Harold Macmillan ***** (1894–1986) 10 January 1957 18 October 1963
4 Alec Douglas-Home ***** (1903–1995) 19 October 1963 16 October 1964

 

5 Harold Wilson ***** (1916–1995) 16 October 1964 19 June 1970
6 Edward Heath ***** (1916–2005) 19 June 1970 4 March 1974
(5) Harold Wilson ***** (1916–1995) 4 March 1974 5 April 1976
7 James Callaghan ***** (1912–2005) 5 April 1976 4 May 1979
8 Margaret Thatcher ***** (1925–2013) 4 May 1979 28 November 1990