Liz Truss to resign
Toyin Falola
Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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Cornelius Hamelberg
BBC: Tory leadership race: Who could replace Liz Truss as prime minister?
LBC: Tories need reminding that Boris Johnson is 'unfit for office,' Sir Keir Starmer tells LBC
This much is certain: If a general election were to be held today, many Tory MPs would lose their seats. Many Tory MPs don’t want to lose their seats, not just yet, and therefore don’t want to face a general election any time soon. They would much prefer to elect a new Party Leader and Prime Minister who could possibly give them some hope of retaining their seats/ winning the next general election.
Who is the most likely man or woman? Has he or she been born yet? Does he or she exist?
Well, Rishi Sunak already has his supporter Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor of the Exchequer, pushing what looks like a Rishi Sunak agenda and that's a big plus, even if last time around Boris had pleaded with his party faithful, “Anybody but Sunak” and this time around he will probably be adding the polite, “ Please”: “Anybody but Sunak, the man who stabbed me in the back, please”
Should Sunak prevail this time, then he would be leading a disunited party, with Boris Johnson as the leader of the opposition within.
A penny for your thoughts.
So, what about a more neutral candidate like Ben Wallace - assuming that he wants to run, this time, him or Penny Mordaunt?
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Okey Iheduru
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Toyin Falola
Okey:
Which country is doing well?
The current index is that the American middle class is heavily in debt, has no more than $5,000 in total savings, and cannot last the loss of one month of pay.
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Cornelius Hamelberg
The leadership contest is much more urgent now than the last time, the main difference being that this time around Boris Johnson himself is contesting, hoping to make a spectacular comeback like Terminator X, just as said in his farewell address which was a resume of his accomplishments as leader of the Tory Party and Prime Minister of the UK hinted at his last PMQs, “ Hasta la vista baby !”
Sky News: Who is in the running to replace Liz Truss as prime minister?If Mr Johson does not clinch either of the first two places, then the big question is, which of the two leading candidates would he be supporting? It’s doubtful that he would be supporting or forgiving Rishi Sunak, whatever happens, and should push come to shove it’s doubtful that Rishi Sunak could present himself /bare his fangs as a British Bulldog, much less as a “ toothless bulldog”
Porter’s Pensées have not yet caught up with the latest news that the Tories could be wiped out at the next general elections, and it should be interesting to see what he thinks the prospects are for such an election taking place soon and if Boris himself could be leading his party into that battle…Cornelius Hamelberg
I don't for a moment think that the UK is “still deluding itself as "Great Britain"! After all, like it or like it not, you and I are members and still belong to Great Britain’s English Language Empire and we must admit it doesn’t matter how abusive a disenchanted bugger or a burgher can become, it’s An Empire on which the sun never sets
Sure, there are cynics everywhere, sometimes as a result of frustration, colonisation, endemic corruption, voluntary or involuntary exile, some people become cynics, and others become life-negating nihilists, in time deteriorating into self-loathing or a self-effacing/ volatile state of mind known as the suicide-bomber mentality which harbours no hope in the future, and prays at least once a day that just one good nuclear bomb would end it all, send us all up as nuclear dust, to kingdom come.
Consider this mean meme about poor Liz Truss :
"In six weeks she managed to bury the Queen, the economy and the Conservative Party"
Liz Truss visited Her Majesty and the next day Her Majesty passed away…
To be or not to be? It’s not an easy choice that’s facing the Brits, there are cynics, maybe racists too who opinie that should Rishi Sunak of third-world ancestry be elected the next leader of the UK’s great Conservative party and Prime Minister of Great Britain, then you have to look no further for any more signs heralding Great Britain's steep decline - the sinking of Britannia into taking a lowly place among other so-called third world nations.
“ Turd world”, said one of the Naipaul.
''Shithole” said Donald Trump whose avowed mission had been “ to drain the swamp (in Washington DC )
There’s some scepticism about Boris Johnson’s comeback in view of the fact that his main claim to fame is that he got Brexit “ done” - and today many of his countrymen - maybe the great majority - now realise that it’s Brexit that’s at the root of the country's economic woes and the pain they’re feeling.
Kwarteng was variously accused of unorthodoxy by the status quo international financial institutions ( and knowing nothing about economics and less about politics, who am I to judge?
Well, here’s some food for thought some other kind of opinion about the tussle between the IMF and Kwarteng’s long-term vision for his country :
A Globalist Coup in Westminster? Six weeks in, the UK swamp brings down Liz Truss.Cornelius Hamelberg
Cornelius Hamelberg
A footnote
Great Britain: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
There are, of course, other areas of greatness
((This reminds me of the humble brag in the very last line:
In the words of the Yigdal, as expounded by Maimonides in Ani Maamin
“He granted His flow of prophecy
to His treasured splendorous people
In Israel, none like Moses arose again”
The Artscroll Siddur notes inform us that “Moses' prophecy is peerless; otherwise another “prophet” could conceivably challenge or amend it, thus challenging the authenticity of the Torah”
Here are Blessings over the study of The Torah
Here are The blessings before the reading of the haftarah
And here are the Siddur notes on “good prophets”:
“The theme of the Haftarah blessings is the integrity of the prophets and their teachings. Even when it is their mission to criticize and threaten, they are good to the Jewish people. Also, they are chosen because they are good people: learned, righteous, impressive etc. Our tradition does not accept prophets who are lacking in any of the attributes of Jewish greatness.”