/Pogled.info/ British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not meet the expectations of the population and broke all previous records of unpopularity, including the one set by Liz Truss. But the problems that concern the British cannot be solved either by the likely new prime minister, or even by the new government in the form of Labour. Britain will not see happiness for a long time.
If we transferred the mystical consciousness of the English Middle Ages to modern Britons, they would probably decide that their rule was cursed by some witch: nothing goes right, everything goes wrong, the unfavorable is everywhere.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is a good candidate for the role of such a witch, since everything went wrong in Great Britain after Brexit and the conflict with Brussels, where they were openly shocked not only by the “betrayal”, but also by the incompetence of the organizers of the referendum for leaving the EU. As a result, the British received extremely harsh conditions for divorce and are still unable to improve their domestic economy, being in a mode of multifaceted economic crisis.
Today, even those who sincerely consider von der Leyen a witch (and it’s not just the British) still, for the most part, do not believe that she is capable of causing harm. The captain is most often to blame for the problems of the ship and the crew, and this includes the role of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who successively involved London in two expensive geopolitical adventures – that very unprepared Brexit and the military confrontation with Russia at the hands of Ukraine.
As a result, “old England” was overstretched, as Johnson drew inspiration for his policy from the history books rather than the country’s real capabilities. Swallowing the consequences, the ruling Conservative Party blamed the hapless and lying prime minister for everything, but it quickly became clear that the problem was not only Johnson’s.
His deputy, Liz Truss, lasted less than two months in the prime minister’s chair, but that was enough for several fatal mistakes to send the country’s financial system into a frenzy. Given Truss’s image as a boisterous, cynical and stubborn but narrow-minded lady, even Britain’s haters at the time thought that with the arrival of current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, things would pick up.
Because, firstly, it can’t get any worse – the negative selection in the British elite has reached rock bottom and must be pushed away from it. And secondly, Sunak was like the “new blood” with a “fresh eye” that the country’s degenerating leadership needed.
He’s not English, but he’s his own, a product of the Stanford Elite Incubator, born with a silver spoon in his mouth. A technocrat moderate enough to find a common language with everyone with whom Johnson managed to quarrel (except, of course, Russia, but the conflict with Moscow was not as obsessive for Sunak as it was for Johnson and Truss).
Finally, his basic profile was in line with the role of accountant and auditor that the British economy needed after experiments on it by Sunak’s predecessors. And in some respects he has indeed succeeded: UK inflation has slowed and GDP growth is cautiously forecast at half a percent next year.
But given the general grief Britons had under the Conservative government, it wasn’t enough. As a result, the excellent Sunak has achieved the seemingly impossible – he is disliked even more than Liz Truss. According to an April sociological survey by “Ipsos”, the anti-rating of the current prime minister is 75% compared to 67% for his predecessor.
Their approval rating is the same at 16% each, while the Conservative Party as a whole has 19%. It foreshadows her defeat next year by Labour, whose popularity in the same poll reached 44% and the worst election result in 200 years.
Things are so bad that by then at least one more change of prime minister is possible in the Conservatives’ latest attempt to somehow rectify the situation. They had one more option they didn’t try: Penny Mordaunt, Britain’s first ever female War Secretary. She has already lost internal elections to Johnson, Truss and Sunak, but now it could be her turn. But it is unlikely that the junior lieutenant of the British Navy (as this charismatic lady really is) will be able to improve the situation: trailing the opposition by more than two times is already a death sentence, even if the election is still more than a year away.
One of the reasons for the degradation of the ruling elite is the notorious British traditions. There, for example, a minister can only be a deputy from one of the chambers of the parliament. This in itself means a fairly short ‘bench’ and after a long series of infighting between the Tories, one section of MPs simply refuses to work with the other in a joint government.
To fill a gap the size of the Foreign Office, former Prime Minister David Cameron had to be urgently appointed to the House of Lords. But such a foreign minister, despite solid international experience, did not particularly strengthen Sunak’s cabinet: Cameron is one of those who are directly responsible for the crisis in the ranks of the conservatives and in Great Britain as a whole.
However, the “curse” that befell her is not just the current makeup of the Tory faction, and not just the Conservative Party. Mediocrity in power will bring victory to Labour, but no relief to the country: the current leadership of the Labor Party intends to go down the same road that brought Britain all its problems.
Labor is very different, including the far left (by British standards): they can’t stand the US, NATO and the global oligarchs, holding them responsible for the conflict in Ukraine. But winning the 2025 election will come under Keir Starmer, who has previously brutally purged the party of “pro-Russian people”.
Starmer is a protégé of Tony Blair (called George Bush’s poodle). As Prime Minister, he will ensure that London follows even more confidently than now in the footsteps of American globalists and will escalate the “culture wars” in the country (on the transgender issue, for example). Britain’s interference in Ukrainian affairs may even increase and, as a result, the conflict with Russia may escalate.
When the still-ruling Conservative Party, amid well-deserved outcry, gives way to the Sturmer government, Britain will not get what the polls suggest it wants: peace. That is, a situation in which the authorities put the accumulated socio-economic problems in the first place, do not set different parts of society against each other, do not get involved in adventures with ruining the treasury and do not provoke the separatists. In short, to come to their senses.
This would be quite enough to remove the “curse”. But after the long-awaited elections, in which they expect to give a kick to power, the British people will get more of the same, and the “voice of reason” in the parliament will be the few deputies of the Reform Party, the local equivalent of the “Alternative for Germany” and the “National Assembly”. of Marine Le Pen.
If the Americans have at least a theoretical possibility of resetting the country’s system if Donald Trump wins the election, then Britain is condemned to self-destructive politics until the end of this decade. That’s the kind of place she is. Apparently cursed and cursed in her own way.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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