Firstly, a hat tip to Mathew Weaver at the Guardian.
He has done something that would almost certainly be anathema to the chaps at the Daily Mail and the Express.
Weaver looked at what others thought of Britain under the leadership of Prime Minister Truss.
Instead, unsurprisingly, the view from outside Blighty is of a country imploding.
El Español gave this harsh assessment:
“It should be remembered that the British voted in favour of ‘Brexit’ in the belief that they would take control and become a stronger country if they managed to throw off the yoke of Europe. Well, the exact opposite seems to be happening. And now that they are no longer under the protection of Brussels, they have no right or access to aid from the 27. If they want to overcome the crisis in which they are immersed, they will have to do it by themselves”
As the only part of the European Union that shares a land border with the UK, we here in the Republic of Ireland have a clear vested interest in what our neighbours get up to.
In Spain, it might be a matter of curiosity; here, it means a whole lot more.
This is a wonderful satire from @Askaudreylike
Indeed it was not the Visigoths!
Leading American economist Paul Krugman does not think that what is happening in Britain has major global significance.
Ironically, that was India’s global GDP level when the British left at the end of World War Two.
In 1700 the subcontinent had accounted for around a quarter of global GDP.
Two centuries of looting and plunder did have an impact.
As Shashi Tharoor trenchantly puts it, Britain reduced India to “a poster child for Third Word poverty”.
A central part of his thesis is that the average Brit has no idea of this as they’re not taught a line of colonial history at school.
The fundamental truth is that Britain, the first global superpower, is no longer a significant player.
If you do not share this archipelago with the UK, then it is just a freak show of a dead empire that cannot accept that its day has passed.
Meanwhile, the ordinary people in Britain have bills to pay.
The fork in the road is to stop pretending it is 1900 and accept that an ex-superpower can become a better country for those living there.
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Britain did not want to be exposed with their trousers down. The reason they wanted out of Europe is quite simply they couldn’t afford it. Its alright pretending to be a wealthy country, but when you need access to a single market based on your supposed wealth then the wheels were falling off. What Britain did to India is exactly what they did to themselves. Everything was sold off for a quick £. Kicking the bucket down the road. It started in the 70s and now 50 years later they are left with a failing economy and a government that has nothing left to sell. They are now intentionally running the NHS into the ground because that’s basically their last peice of silver to sell off.
What I can’t believe is why Scottish people not associated with the ibrox klan can’t see this. Why is Scotland with just over 5 million people giving up everything we own to support and be ruled by a another country with over 60 million. Its basically a middle class person giving all their money away to a tramp and letting the tramp decide what’s best.. of course the tramp will first look after themselve then start selling off the contents of your home.
Liz Truss looks like some wee wummin who doesn’t know what day of the week it is.
Nice move however throwing her Chancellor under a bus for the shambles of the mini budget.
The satirical piece is a gem “it’s the speed with which you have done it”, quality.
This self inflicted wound, is actually worse than broadly reported, that being, for either one of two reasons. Firstly, they didn’t fully realise the domino effect that it would have, with the Pension funds having to pay more and more into the back ups to keep them viable, this started to trickle down and then gather momentum with the other financial markets, leading to a catastrophic loss if not checked.
Which happened with the bank of engerland’s intervention to the tune of £65 Billion to start with. They also acquired a reprimand from the IMF, a rare occurrence in the West. Alternatively, they did know, and were using the “collapse” to make a killing on the market, one man’s loss being another man’s gain. Take your pick..both can be summed up as the tories just doing what the tories do. Either way its a mess, to think ex mining communities help vote them in. Where the fk are the opposition.
Mostly through the football over the past 30 odd years i have made friends across Europe, and to a man, the situation here comes into the don’t have a fk left to give bracket. The UK have rendered themselves an irrelevance. What a clusterfk…to think Scotland only had to vote to be rid of them, its fking unreal. All thats left now is for the Norn Irn division to migrate en masse to Scotland and that will be the “coup de grace” or is that too European. Anyway its full time at Celtic Park, 3 points in the bag, I gave my ticket to one of the London No1 bhoys for the day, and i’m away to have a pint. Cheers…
One rightwing administration doing deals with another
pompous bullingdon boys at work, if I ever spoke Spanish Yo diría que parece una pericita