Boris Johnson Resigning As Prime Minister

[Il Matto]

'Will Truss divide or unite Tory party?'

A fair question, to which my response is: does it matter? If the good folk of Britain are supposed to suffer through more Tory blundering, then it will be so. If in the future Labour are designated as the arbiters of the circus that is British Government, then it will be so. All we can really be certain of is that it will be a circus that the majority will believe they asked for...
This made me laugh out loud:
Everything you need to know about Liz Truss -- Sott.net

 

[Voyageur]

This made me laugh out loud:
Everything you need to know about Liz Truss -- Sott.net

Read this from Zakharova that also made me laugh:

Asked by TASS whether Truss will be a disaster for Britain, Zakharova replied that if "shop owners are decorating the window in this way, then they believe this is the best item they have in stock today."

Simply an off the shelf, window dressing display PM.

Moreover:

Truss' visit to Russia in February - amid tensions in Ukraine in the run-up to the launch of Moscow's military operation - was remembered by many for a gaffe made by the then-foreign secretary. Truss confused the Russian regions of Voronezh and Rostov with Ukrainian regions, and told her counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, that London would never recognize Russia's sovereignty over these areas. According to reports, she was then allegedly corrected by Deborah Bronnert, the UK ambassador. Lavrov described the meeting with the foreign secretary as talking "to a deaf person."

Zakharova later mocked what she called the "mind-blowing stupidity" of Truss.

Truss = from Old French trousse, torse "parcel, package, bundle," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *torciare "to twist," from Late Latin torquere "to twist"

Good luck with that one, UK! (don't feel too bad, over here in Canada and the US we have the two figure heads of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum)

 

[Magnolia]

UKColumn's video update (Sept 7) includes a section on Truss (17:30 to 26:30) including a review of a Thinkpiece article entitled
'Nudging' You to Make the 'Right' Choices written by Elizabeth Truss and Nick Bosanquet in 2009. The article references and endorses "nudge theory" from a book entitled Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.

These authors believe that "it is possible for the government to hire a competent expert [a "Choice Architect"] to design a choice environment in which individuals have an easier time making good decisions."

"The concept of nudging people into the right behavior rather than being compelled appeals to those on both the right and left of the political spectrum as it is superfically non-intrusive and positive in outcome."

UKColumn then reviews the notions of "nudge theory" and the implications of having a PM that endorses the psyops.

They note that Truss was made the Deputy Director of Reform ( a "think tank") in 2008, which is heavily involved in "nudge theory."
Some elements from Reform's mission:
-- "we want to see a public service model that reduces demand rather than simply manages it."
-- "to reimagine how the State operates in order to shape a new social settlement fit for today and the coming decades." 
Reform has various university "partners" and corporation sponsors including Pfizer and Moderna.

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[Il Matto]

Truss = from Old French trousse, torse "parcel, package, bundle," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *torciare "to twist," from Late Latin torquere "to twist"

Good luck with that one, UK!

Ha! A very apt etymology!
The first thing that came to mind in relation to 'torquere' was 'spin' (in the political sense) - something the good Lady will no doubt be very good at, or at least those cabinet ministers she surrounds herself with in that little den of iniquity will be..

They note that Truss was made the Deputy Director of Reform ( a "think tank") in 2008, which is heavily involved in "nudge theory."
Some elements from Reform's mission:
-- "we want to see a public service model that reduces demand rather than simply manages it."

Well, we've seen that one writ large in recent years: deceive the population, ramp up the fear, then they'll be less troublesome and follow your 'nudge' (and be good and compliant about it!). Attention spans were dwindling under the blundering of Boris - time for a new Iron Lady?

 

[Deliverance]

@Voyageur , @Il Matto
Trousser en français (ancien) : composer rapidement un article, une chanson
Trousser en argot : Soulever les vêtements d'une femme dans l'objectif de la posséder sexuellement.
Torquere en latin : tordre
to spin = en français tournoyer
« Spin doctor » est un anglicisme difficilement traduisible mais qui désigne un conseiller politique personnel.

"Trousser" in French (old): to quickly compose an article, a song
"Trousser" in slang: to lift a woman's clothes in order to possess her sexually.
"Torquere" in Latin : to twist
"spin" = in French, it means to rotate
"Spin doctor" is an anglicism that is difficult to translate but which designates a personal political advisor.

 

[Michael B-C]

Well that didn't take long did it!? 'Regime Change UK' coming to a TV near you all too soon.

All the signs are that a deep state plot is afoot to so further discredit and humiliate the Truss/Kwarteng government that one or either - or indeed both - are perilously close to being forced out in the very near future, even possibly by the end of the week - which will create such a political crisis in the UK that an election before long becomes inevitable. With a Tory party in meltdown and what looks an unassailable 30% lead in the polls, standing in the wings is Sir Keir Starmer who I have long had marked down as a likely Adam Sutler redux for the coming crack down post whatever 'calamity' they spring to pull the plug on the last vestiges of 'democracy'.



He has put a lot of public effort into appearing to be an inoffensive and solid if dull man but his political reputation behind the spin is as a ruthless, self serving creature of the deep state, a man who will do anything to maintain obedience and order. He has been a creature of the nasties since before his first rise to notoriety; along with his Israeli friends he has been the political muscle behind the ruthless dismantling of the Corbynite wing of the Labour party; he's an arch loyalist to Blair so much so that he has been called Blair 2.0; was an absolute fanatic for lockdowns (even more than Johnson); is utterly committed to the Ukraine nonsense and I suspect has a very dark side to him that his plastic grin is designed to hide. In other words he's a ruthless authoritarian follower if not worse.

The boys at the Duran go into some of the details of the 'plot' that's brewing with for now the Bank of England on point.

 

[Ben]

I was just about to post the Duran video. Mercouris thinks that the tension and confusion between Truss/Kwarteng and the BOE is the result of a deep state plot to cause them to commit political suicide. This would be the effect of them u-turning from tax cuts to tax increases. Then - regime change, which means almost certainly Starmer in power. He can be trusted to toe the line when required to crack down on dissent whether in government (which the whole Corbyn purge proves he is capable of) or in the population. In his view the current government are too incompetent and unpopular to be reliable in such a situation.

This is not to say that the actual economic situation isn't very serious indeed.

 

[Voyageur]

The boys at the Duran go into some of the details of the 'plot' that's brewing with for now the Bank of England on point.

At the end of September, the former governor of the Bank of England and prior, Canada a.k.a. some type of chair of the WEF and a good handful of other associated organizations, Mark Carney - and chum of the new King along with silent directorship in the halls of Ottawa, provided some thoughts in The Guardian with additions the same day in The Financial Post.

As a new world financial architect, he is no Truss fan, and I'm sure he is on all the banking 'hotline' backchannels. Part of his comments look to the worry of unfunded spending (one can see how close the headlines are with each other - added in Bloomberg, which is the same):

Mark Carney accuses Truss government of undermining Bank of England

Former governor’s comments come after central bank forced into £65bn intervention to avert financial crisis

www.theguardian.com

Mark Carney accuses Truss government of undercutting U.K.'s economic institutions

Former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney accused Liz Truss’s government of “undercutting” the nation’s economic institutions. Read more

financialpost.com

(for Bloomberg's link, if left live, it say are you a Bot)
-https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/carney-says-truss-government-is-undercutting-uk-institutions

 

[SOTTREADER]

Kwarteng fired - scapegoated.

 

[SOTTREADER]

Jeremy Hunt hired. He was the one who cut pay for junior doctors as health minister a couple of years ago. Tax hikes coming?

 

[Chad]

Some interesting speculation from The Duran; (if i'm understanding them correctly) they believe that one of the goals of those working behind the scenes is to get Conservative PM Truss, who was chosen primarily because she was so hawkish on the Ukraine war, out, and eventually to get Labour's Keir Starmer into power.

I thought it was interesting because Starmer comes across as one of the more sly and sinister characters in UK politics at the moment. He's the guy who not long ago avoided questions on 'what is a woman' - one interviewer asks him whether a woman 'can have a penis', and he stutters through his answer (2nd video below); another asked him whether it's transphobic to say that 'only a woman has a cervix', and again, he rather deftly (for a UK politician, anyway) dodges the question

It also strikes me that it may be that selling the various nefarious agendas to Conservative voters (and swing voters) will be a lot tougher than to Labour's. Labour, which has lost 2000,000 members since the Corbyn coup and the rather thorough subversion of the party with woke ideology. In addition, Labour has been rising in polls because of the current crisis that the Conservatives are being blamed for, and so it seems more likely that Labour will be voted in next anyway.

Obviously the situation is fluid, and factions and the deep state will work with whatever they've got, so i guess it remains to be seen just what will happen next.

Added: Just seen your post on Starmer, Michael BC!

17 minutes:

 

[Iain]

I thought it was interesting because Starmer comes across as one of the more sly and sinister characters in UK politics at the moment

For sure. Starmer seems to be the establishments leader of choice now, despite how utterly incompetent he seemed to be at gaining any more support for Labour. Looks like the new plan is simply to make the Conservatives so bad Labour is the only other choice.

Throughout the plandemic I thought things would actually have been far worse under Labour since they seemed to be arguing for greater restrictions all the time.

Starmer has been a favourite of the intelligence agencies for many years. He was involved with bringing in what became the Investigative Powers Act (or 'Snoopers Charter') - basically the Act that allows intelligence agencies and law enforcement to intercept communications and forces internet service providers to retain all users 'internet connection records'. He originally argued that all records should be held in some sort of central hub...

He also supported the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Act that allows individuals working for intelligence agencies and law enforcement to break the law in interests of 'national security, wellbeing of the UK's economy or to detect or prevent a crime'.

In 2013 Starmer was discovered to have been meeting the MI5 head while he was head of the Crown Prosecution Service and was deciding whether to investigate MI5 over the torture of Binyamin Mohammed. He eventually decided not to prosecute, nor pursue those who sanctioned the torture in the first place (Blair et al).

More information in this article from The Canary

Starmer was also instrumental in the whole Assange case when he prevented Swedish investigators from coming to the UK to interview Assange in 2011. Had the interview taken place then rather than at the Ecuadorian embassy the last decade may have been very different for Assange...



From Craig Murray How the Establishment Functions:

It is important for you to understand that Assange was never charged with any sex crime in Sweden. He was wanted for questioning, after Stockholm’s chief prosecutor had decided there was no case to answer, but a prosecutor from another district had taken up the case. Assange always believed the entire thing was a ruse to get him sent from Sweden to the United States. His legal team had offered the Swedish prosecutors the chance to interview him in the Swedish Embassy back in 2011, which should have enabled the case to be closed.

Under Starmer, the Crown Prosecution Service told the Swedish prosecutors not to come to London. The emails in which they did this were destroyed, and only recovered by an FOI request at the Swedish end. You will recall that, when after a further seven long years Swedish prosecutors finally did interview Assange in the Ecuadorean Embassy, it resulted in the Swedish investigation being dropped.

Had Starmer not prevented it, the Swedish investigation could have been closed in January 2011 following interview.

Then in October 2013, while Starmer was still DPP, his staff emailed Swedish prosecutors in response to reports that they wished to drop the case, saying “Don’t you dare get cold feet”. The Swedes responded explaining they did indeed wish to drop it. The Crown Prosecution Service again dissuaded them.

Starmer was even the CPS head when it was decided that no case was to be brought against Jimmie Saville. Again from the Craig Murray piece:

There is no doubt that Starmer was indeed Director of Public Prosecution and head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2009 when it was decided that credible allegations against Jimmy Savile should not be prosecuted (after they had reached that stage already decades too late). Of course the Director of Public Prosecutions does not handle the individual cases, which are assigned to lawyers under them. But the Director most certainly is then consulted on the decisions in the high profile and important cases.

That is why they are there. It is unthinkable that Starmer was not consulted on the decision to shelve the Savile case – what do they expect us to believe his role was, as head of the office, ordering the paperclips?

When the public outcry reached a peak in 2012, Starmer played the go-to trick in the Establishment book. He commissioned an “independent” lawyer he knew to write a report exonerating him. Mistakes have been made at lower levels, lessons will be learnt… you know what it says. Mishcon de Reya, money launderers to the oligarchs, provided the lawyer to do the whitewash. Once he retired from the post of DPP, Starmer went to work at, umm,

It is remarkable that the media has never got as excited about any of the lies told by Johnson, as they have done about what is in fact a rare example of Johnson saying an interesting truth. Starmer was indeed, as Director of Public Prosecutions, responsible for the non-prosecution of Savile.

All in all, supporting the woke agenda, banning previous Corbyn supporters, backing whatever the CIA/MI5 want to do, implementing cyber-surveillance, etc, etc... Yup 'sly and sinister' about sums it up.

And let's not forget how he took over the Labour Party as discussed in this thread.

 

[Michael B-C]

It's good to remember that from the get go of his days at Oxford when he was 'identified' for the very role he ended up playing, Blair was an MI5/Intelligence strategic apparatus placement into the Labour Party like some Trojan Horse. His pathological and chameleon 'nature' had marked him out and he was 'persuaded' to pick Labour having never previously shown any left-leaning inclinations - indeed any political ambitions at all. Starmer seems to be very much cut from the same cloth, though without Blair's lounge-lizard appeal. As with Blair, when the nasties want to really turn the gas up on the UK population its best done under the disguise of a supposedly left-leaning (we care about you, we really do!) party as it is with the democrats in the US. Starmer has prepped the party to be his authoritarian poodle - hence the 12 years in opposition to make them so desperate for power, and therefore to hold on to it when they finally get it come what may - so they will be whatever the system needs them to be when the time comes. I think that's why this is all in such a hurry because they somehow have to get that election out of the way first and so with the government's hefty majority its going to take a lot of blood letting and self harm by the Tories to make that happen before next year. I think that's why things are happening this way - whoever wins the hot seat next (most likely Rishi Sunak) will have zero political authority and I think under the pressure of this will be 'persuaded' to call a snap election to earn the right. Sunak has such a high opinion of himself I think he will fall for the trap - probably post a fake honeymoon love in via the media - and we'll get loads of fake polls saying he's dramatically closed the gap on Labour. But he will lose badly and Stramer will be in. I could even see this all playing out this side of Christmas... .

 

[Thebull]

Yes we're really witnessing a regime change push in the UK with Sir Keir riding in to stabilise things
Tbh the media are so polished at pushing the agenda and it's simple for them as the majority of our population are victims of years of Gaslighting.
I had to laugh they even had Biden on the news this morning telling us he didn't agree with Truss's policy!

Just to add our msn have also been talking about the amendments to the protest bill as targeting the extinction rebellion or climate crazies who lay in the motorways.
Really they're preparing for what's coming as a result years of mismanagement, no food, black outs and interest rate hikes.

 

[sToRmR1dR]

'Good bye Liz.'

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