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Does it matter?
I dunno any more. Ever since (and perhaps even before) I read the headline a day or so ago that Rishi Sunak (that's Rasheed Sunook, to you Biden acolytes) said that the Tory party has "24 hours to save Britain."
I'm fairly rational. The one or two (or three or four) of you on this site who think I'm an emotional whack job, do your worst. You know who you are. And I'm ready.
And yet.
When it comes right down to it, I can't help noticing that the "Tory" party has been in power in the UK since May 2010. All the way through David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak.
That's roughly (in my emotional whack job terms) about 125,000 hours.
Really, Rishi? You're pandering for votes over your ability to "fix" things in the next twenty-four?
What the fpft hell has your party been doing for the past one-hundred-twenty-five thousand?
And. Whatever. Please stop blaming everything on Liz Truss who was--let's face it--Prime Minister for what? 44 days? Maybe 1000 of those hours.
What about the other 124, 000? Who was in charge for them?
Not Liz Truss, that's for sure.
Honestly. I can't even.
Eight years ago I went to bed at some ungodly hour sure that the Brexiteers must have lost. Shortly thereafter, I woke up to find that that was--gloriously--not the case.
Five months later, I stayed awake (more favorable time zone) to watch the lamentations of the United States mainstream media as Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton for the presidency. That might have been even more glorious.
I don't expect history to repeat itself in the one case. As for the other, the jury's still out.
What say you?
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There's a minor pseudo-"scandal" that PM Sunak owns a condo in Santa Monica. If, as expected, he loses, I will at least buy him a drink at The King's Head.
Gonna be a rough 5 years with the commies in charge.
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The question I've been itching to as PM Sunak since about a month after he took over:
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It struck me that while Europe is turning right, the UK is turning left. But are they?
Are the voters embracing Labour or are they just pushing the exhausted Tories to the side? Boris Johnson came in and captured an 83 seat majority in the House and squandered it all away. What a waste.
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Good question. I believe that Bill Clinton won in 1992 because voters were bored with 12 years of GOP power. That's not as crazy as it sounds; most administrations run out of gas by some point.
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