The Power Behind the Loon

'What Will Boris Do Next?' asked the BBC News website the other day.  'Fuck off and die' or, at the very least, just fuck off somewhere a long way from here, would, I think, be the preferred options if we were to be given a choice.  Not that we will be given a choice, with the flabby bounder doubtless fantasising a return to the top job once his successor has fouled up, (as she inevitably will, so clueless does swivel-eyed loon Liz Truss seem when it comes to actually devising and implementing substantive policies rather than just slogans).  Such fantasies - shared by his tiny band of acolytes - ignore the reality that, in order to achieve this, he'd need the support of the parliamentary Tory party, who are the very people who forced him out after losing confidence in him.  But then again, they've decided to instead place their confidence in Liz Truss, so maybe there is hope for the fat layabout to make a comeback yet.  Speaking of Liz Truss, her ascent to the top hasn't been the result of luck, ('falling upwards' as they say of the ascent of the incompetent), or simply being in the right place at the right time.  It has clearly been carefully orchestrated.  Cast your mind back a few months when Johnson's position within the Tory party first started to look tenuous and remember those articles that started appearing in the right wing press promoting her as a possible replacement.  At the time, they seemed to come out of nowhere: ridiculous puff pieces promoting a much ridiculed (with good reason) politician no serious pundit rated as a contender for the Tory leadership.

What's obvious now is that the wealthy backers of the Tory party, as fronted for by the right-wing press, saw her as the perfect replacement for Johnson: easily manipulated into doing their bidding but less of a loose cannon.  Lo and behold, once Johnson was ousted and the gates opened on the leadership race, these very same press outlets obliged by building a band wagon for Truss, constantly talking her up while undermining more experienced and qualified candidates, (I say 'experienced' and 'qualified', but still they are all Tory bastards).  Why shouldn't these shadowy backers feel entitled to believe that Truss is their perfect puppet PM?  After all, she apparently has no actual convictions or ideological commitment, instead saying whatever she thinks the people who can put her into power want to hear.  Her political journey has seen her travel from Liberal Democrat to right-wing Tory, from avid remainer to fervent Brexiteer.  Opportunism is her only creed.  Her allegiances have been made clear with her claims that - in the face of soaring energy bills and concomitant soaring and unearned profits by energy providers - 'profit' isn't a dirty word, rejecting the idea of windfall taxes, not to mention her statement that we shouldn't look at taxation from the perspective of 'redistribution' and that there's nothing wrong with tax cuts that make the rich richer.  She's all for the vested interests, the wealthy few, the accumulation of wealth by the 1% - and why shouldn't she be?  They're the ones who have propelled her, undeserved though her rise has been, based on her actual record in government, enabled by them.  It's payback time.