The Quest to Out Awful Boris Continues Apace

Through an internal election involving the roughly 200 thousand registered Tory voters, basically a bunch of rich old guys in southeast England, the new party leader, and hence the new Prime Minister for the UK has been elected, and it is Liz Truss.

She is absolutely the worst person for the current circumstances, having devoted her political career to showing that government cannot work by mismanaging and under funding it.

Her solution to the current crisis is not any sort of regulatory action against energy companies looting the country, but more tax cuts for the rich.

Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after beating Rishi Sunak in the bitterly fought Conservative leadership contest.

The foreign secretary, who won 81,326 votes (57.4%) of Tory members to the former chancellor’s 60,399 (42.6%), takes over from Boris Johnson, who was ousted by his own MPs earlier this summer.

But the euphoria of victory will quickly give way to the hard reality of the economic challenges ahead, with the country gripped by a cost of living crisis leaving families struggling to pay their energy bills this winter. 

Truss has said she will reveal plans to support households within a week of taking office, with allies understood to be discussing a £100bn package that could include freezing energy bills. She has already pledged to reverse a national insurance rise even though it disproportionately benefits the well-off.

You can be guaranteed that her solutions will be directed toward making sure that the rich have to pay less.

After the announcement on Tuesday, Truss promised a “bold plan” to cut taxes and grow the economy and said that she would “deal with” soaring energy bills as well as longer-term energy supply, but gave no further detail on how she would do so.

Britain’s fourth Tory prime minister in six years declared “we will deliver, we will deliver and we will deliver” on the many challenges facing her government, including the state of the NHS.

To quote Tacitus, her plans for the National Health Service (NHS) will be to create a desert and call it peace.

Liz Truss, like Boris Johnson before her, and like Theresa May before him, and David Cameron before her, will under-fund and privatize the NHS with the goal of  replacing healthcare in the UK with a private system like the one that does not work in the United States.

She might not be worse than Boris Johnson, but she will certainly give him a run for his money.