So three days after I wrote the below article, Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister.
Tory MPs revolted against Ms Truss after a series of U-turns on her economic plan sapped her of authority.
In a brief speech outside Downing Street, Ms Truss said the Conservative Party had elected her on a mandate to cut taxes and boost economic growth.
But given the situation, Ms Truss said: “I recognise that I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.”
“Liz Truss resigns: PM’s exit kicks off another Tory leadership race” – BBC News, October 20th 2022
I don’t want to repeat much of what I previously wrote, but it was kind of predictable really that this would happen, and equally predictable was what happened next.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and other opposition parties called for an immediate general election following Ms Truss’s resignation speech.
“Liz Truss resigns: PM’s exit kicks off another Tory leadership race” – BBC News, October 20th 2022
Any opportunity to try and seize power I suppose, but more on that in a bit.
“Every Loser Wins”
Anyway, unlike the previous leadership election that took place when Boris Johnson resigned, which lasted for several weeks during the summer, the ‘rules’ were changed, so as to effect an ’emergency election’. Hopefuls required the backing of 100 Tory MPs to stand, and in the end, there was only one candidate backed by more than 100 MPs, and that was Rishi Sunak, who became Tory party leader, and thus the Prime Minister, on October 24th.
So clearly, Mr Sunak was always “the chosen one” among the Tory party ‘elite’ MPs, and those pesky ordinary ‘grass-roots’ members clearly made the ‘wrong choice’ in voting for Ms Truss last time round. So much that the wider party membership didn’t even get to have a say this time round.
The choice was made for them. Sunak was not voted in as party leader, he was ‘appointed’.
Mr Sunak is of course a VERY wealthy man, he used to be employed by Goldman Sachs and he is married to the daughter of an Indian tech billionaire.
The Election Deception
What I haven’t yet worked out is whether this was actually a ‘coup’, or whether this was all ‘stage-managed’ to happen in this way. I’m still troubled by how the media had already assumed Truss would be the new PM, even before the ballot papers had started to be counted.
Did the Conservative party membership actually vote for Truss, or was that all ‘rigged’ as part of the pantomime? I’m not sure what the purpose of that would be, if Sunak was the ‘chosen one’ then they could have rigged that ballot so he won.
Or is there a subtle ‘clue’ there in how they intend to transition us from ‘democracy’ into ‘technocracy’?
“You people can’t be trusted to make the right choice, so we need to make it for you as we are the experts.”
The man who is now Prime Minister was neither elected by the British public, nor the Conservative party members, and barely a majority of the Conservative MPs. (Sunak was backed by 147 out of 357 Tory MPs)
As quoted above, Labour leader ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer made lots of noises ‘demanding’ a General Election – given the current climate (excuse the pun!) he knows full well that would be the only way Labour would win any GE at this time, given the apparent lack of their own policies.
The last GE took place in December 2019, so the next one is not scheduled to happen until January 2025.
The Conservatives currently (at the time of writing) hold a comfortable 72 seat majority, so really it would be ‘suicidal’ if Mr Sunak decides to ‘go to the country’ in order to seek a ‘new mandate from the people’.
Sunak will enjoy his ‘honeymoon’ period, after all after rolling back on several policy announcements made by his predecessor, the ‘markets are stabilising’ and the pound is rising back in value against the US dollar, though interest rates remain higher and of course inflation is still on the rise.
But let us not forget that while he was Chancellor Of The Exchequer, Mr Sunak was very keen on the idea of ‘centralised bank digital currency’ (CBDC) and even coined (again excuse the pun) the term “BritCoin” as its name. More on this can be found in the video in the below article:
As I’ve said before, it doesn’t matter who the Prime Minister is, or which party is ‘in power’, there is an underlying agenda which ALL parties are adhering to.
The Tories have been ‘in power’ for twelve years now, since ‘taking over’ from Labour in 2010 (albeit in a coalition with the LibDems from 2010 to 2015). It would seem that the people are growing tired of this Tory government, and sadly many people still think that by voting in Labour they will see ‘change’.
Only in the colour of the rosettes!
It is my belief that for whatever reason given, there will be a general election held next year, and it will be one that Labour comfortably win. But while we get a new party in power and a new Prime Minister and cabinet, the agenda will continue as it has always done.
Manifestos, “pledges” and mandates
The current Conservative government has a ‘mandate’ from the people based on the pledges it laid out in its manifesto from the 2019 election.
If Sunak proposes to introduce something new that was not promised in their manifesto, then he does not have a ‘mandate’ to do so.
So lets say that he proposes to introduce said BritCoin CBDC as well as further develop “digital IDs” etc, and then decides to call an election, and the people clearly say NO!… all it needs is for Labour to also include such proposals in their own manifesto – perhaps hide it away or call it something different – and then focus their own campaigning on some other points in their manifesto, like promising more money for the NHS, blah blah.
Distraction! The oldest trick in the political book, attack others to distract from your own shortcomings.
Anyway, Labour get in to power, the people think they have “voted for change”, yet the agenda continues, and we all end up with the dreaded CBDC and digital IDs, because Labour have a ‘mandate from the people’ to do so. (But you were all distracted by talk of tax cuts, increased spending on the NHS, and ‘diversity and inclusion’ etc)
Everything repeats on various cycles. Labour governed the UK for 13 years from 1997 to 2010, Conservatives will have also governed for 13 years from 2010 to 2023.
Does anything ever change for the better though? Not really.
