The gamer's game.
Trying to see ourselves as others see us is never easy. But when it comes to the UK it can be done.
Read what the Irish and American newspapers and websites are saying about the UK and you may be in for a shock, the French and German media have English language services, they do not make for comfortable reading. Bloomberg and the Huffington Post are positively apocalyptic.
Yet, the media in the UK has been dominated for the last few days by Liz Truss. The worst PM in history, a complete and utter failure and someone whose mad economic ideas nearly bankrupted the country.
By her own admission the Treasury warned her that if she continued with her policies they might have to default on the national debt, not something I remember hearing before and not something that seems to have dented her self belief..
Yet her fightback is part of a policy, one that has been running for 40 plus years, to convince the UK electorate that tax cuts for the rich are a sensible economic policy that will benefit them. Even after the extreme advocates of this policy were driven from power in a matter of weeks, the cause must be preserved and pushed forward.
This is why we have all this talk about a leftwing economic conspiracy to bring down Truss and her policies.
The cause must be preserved.
The poorest 20% in the UK are not the poorest in Europe, Brexit was a success, the lowest state pension in the G7 is unaffordable, the NHS must be “reformed” because it too is unaffordable and defence spending is not a scandal,, every department is wasting your money when it is actually just short of money, trickle down economics is not a cynical ploy.
Because if people realise they have been gamed for years, the game is over.
Try reading the foreign press about this, they can see what is happening, we can’t.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media