Dealing with failure
They said satire was dead the day that Henry Kissinger won the Noble Peace Prize, they were wrong. The latest satirical masterpiece is Liz Truss calling for an “Economic NATO” to counterbalance the growing economic power of China and others presumably.
To avoid wasted air miles and improve coordination I suggest that the new Economic Nato should be based somewhere in Brussels, like the current NATO.
Beyond that my satirical skills seem to have deserted me. It must be the shock of such an insensitive, crass, arrogant, hypocritical, shameless proposal.
Because Liz Truss actually thinks she is a serious thinker, a big beast, a respected elder stateswoman, someone with heft and influence, someone who world leaders listen to with awe, as they sit at her feet.
How can someone who was such a total, embarrassing, massively expensive, flop; think they are in any way worth listening to?
I did hear a rumour that she only joined the Conservatives when the Lib Dems said she wasn’t candidate material.
Perhaps that explains it, her ego, very much like Boris Johnson’s, cannot deal with failure. A dangerous personality trait in a politician.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.