Government, What Government?
Jun. 11th, 2017 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloIt's not clear whether we even have a government at present.
Mrs May has just suffered the humiliation of having to sack her two closest advisers. You'd think she might have said, "If they go, I go." But, no, loyalty in the upper reaches of governance only goes one way. Does Mrs May think that sacrificing her friends will keep her in office? But why would she want to cling to office when every public appearance will be a rite of mortification?
Someone- someone breathing down Mrs May's neck- will have to prepare a speech for the Queen to deliver at the State Opening of Parliament. What on earth can be said in it that won't provoke laughter?
Mrs May has just suffered the humiliation of having to sack her two closest advisers. You'd think she might have said, "If they go, I go." But, no, loyalty in the upper reaches of governance only goes one way. Does Mrs May think that sacrificing her friends will keep her in office? But why would she want to cling to office when every public appearance will be a rite of mortification?
Someone- someone breathing down Mrs May's neck- will have to prepare a speech for the Queen to deliver at the State Opening of Parliament. What on earth can be said in it that won't provoke laughter?
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Date: 2017-06-11 11:50 am (UTC)Hmmm...........
My other half knew those advisers when he was still working for HMG- apparently they were like May's children (she has none of her own) so this was like shafting your own kids.
Is power really worth that?
And there was me thinking I knew where the buck ends. :o/
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Date: 2017-06-11 11:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-06-11 12:02 pm (UTC)I hope you have better luck with that line of argument than we appear to.
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Date: 2017-06-11 12:24 pm (UTC)May called an unnecessary election which destroyed her parliamentary majority. Trump has yet to do anything quite so madly self-destructive...
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Date: 2017-06-11 08:16 pm (UTC)I keep thinking that and then he keeps still being there.
Trump has yet to do anything quite so madly self-destructive...
Party-destructive is the key point there: he hasn't made any decisions yet that put a massive number of Republicans out of work. That's what people are counting on 2018 for, when we have the next major set of elections. I was just hoping for something swifter.
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Date: 2017-06-11 12:03 pm (UTC)That's Ms Spawn to you!
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