I am happy to see today that my article in Polish on the woeful Tory candidates for Prime Minister has been published both in the London-based Tydzien Polski (Polish Weekly) and in the Londynek.net website. I called it the "Brexit Acolytes fight for power". Both are pandering to the worst possible instincts of their 140,000 strong Tory electorate and Liz Truss is way ahead. She is trying to gain a total monopoly on having her cake and eating it. She claims that tax and national insurance cuts totalling £32bn will not hurt the economy and not spur inflation further. Also she is relishing a fight with the EU over the NI protocol and looking forward to sending more hapless asylum seekers to Rwanda and elsewhere. The Daily Express headline stressed that she is offerring Britain "a golden future". More like molten gold poured over our heads in "The Game of Thrones" style. As for mega-rich Rishi Sunak, who is also pandering to the hard-nosed electrorate, though it is not his style, is limping behind Liz Truss. He echoes the same hysterical drivel, but with less sincerity. He limps because he still has one leg firmly impanted in reality, and the other in Brexitland, and for that he gets no thanks from anybody.
People, and not just Tories, want the dream. They will support Liz Truss. That is now largely Keir Starmer's fault, as he is currently offering nothing. Retired PM Gordon Brown is making more impact. I admire Keir as a principled man, but he is unsteady on the economy and too frightened to offer a vision. Politics is really not his forte. Perhaps he needs to let one of his first class team take over before it is too late and we have another Tory triumph.
The text of my article is published on my Polish blog - www.polaklondynczyk.blogspot.co.uk.
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