Gravity

1.  I bet Liz Truss' school report read "a very bright, enthusiastic and promising student" unfortunately her unbridled ambition, only eclipsed by the enormity of her own stultifying ego caused arrested development meaning the UK is now led by someone with the emotional and intelectual maturity of a teenager. This has already been seen with her comments on Macron, Cheese and her vacant looks into camera when waiting for the teleprompter.
2. Liz's agenda thus far has been to appeal not to her party MP's but to the extreme right swivel-eyed looneys in the membership (at least some of those from the membership who were not swivel-eyed, probably tore up their membership upon Johnson's escapades). She played a blinder on that one and secured her position as the latest court jester. She has also routed any Sunak supports irrespective of their capabilities further depleting cabinet talent.
3. As always, everything that now unfolds will be a desperate race to win the next GE. It will be desperate and a race. The economic time-bomb for both the UK and the EU is ticking due to recent global events. However, the UK bomb may be ticking a little faster as it put the boot in with trading relations with our nearest neighbour at a time of global downturn.
4. With FPTP, there are largely only two outcomes for the next GE (unless we see some real changes to the opposition parties)
   
   4a)Labour win. If they do win it will not be because of their own intrinsic merit, but simply because FINALLY the country cannot stomach any more of a party that is so corrupt and dire.
   
   4b) Tories win. If they do, it will be because a GE will have been called immediately after some flag waiving, national win, or tax handout (although unlikely, I think it still could happen)

Paradoxically, my desire for a far more left-leaning government has me wishing for 4a) a Tory win. Labour, or perhaps the country as a whole, steadfastly refuses to face the truth that the UK is in a dire position, due to Brexit, Covid, Russia/Ukraine, and years of mismanaged inward investment and that a single term of ANY party cannot possibly fix the problems. It has to be a long road back to recovery and that requires a party that can implement policies that are unpopular for the short to mid-term. I'd be prepared to bet good money that if Labour does take the reins, they will do so for a single term only. They will be faced with such an economic disaster that there is simply no way that they can turn it around in a single term. No one could! Four years later, Tories are waiting in the wings blaming all woes (wrongly) on Labour and offering tax cuts like drug dealers pushing drugs at the school gates.

On the other hand, if the Tories win a GE, then perhaps Labour as is, will finally implode and the absurdity of the broad church so broad as to mean all things to all men can finally break apart like the spasming division of cells and hopefully, we can see a new 21st-century savvy, centre left party emerge with PR as manifesto promise in numero uno position and a properly contemporary socialist agenda.

Labour has for far too long, served best to keep the Tories in power, because, with FPTP, they are too big to let anyone else have a go but too weak and wishy-washy (due to all things to all men)  to win.

Yes, I agree Being Trussed up is better the Sunacked. Sunak was the sensible option for the Tories, but the swivel-eyed loonies pulled the strings this time.  Starmer and Sturgeon ought to have smiles on their faces.

But who knows, there is a lot that can happen yet, Covid could return 1000 times more deadly. A Russian Ukraine accident could produce a blinding white flash followed by darkness. The US could see civil war. China could invade Tibet and form an axis of evil with Russia. It's all so exciting :-(

Hmm where is our biggest every pride of the seas aircraft carrier the Prince of Wales at this time of heightened international tensions, out performing outperforming itself in trials and at sea exercises in a show of strength? Oh no, she's moored up lame in port. 

I believe there are things that could make Britain really great again, but they start with admitting to the population at large about all the mistakes that have been made, all the lazy profiteering, and telling the truth and fostering a new and real "ask not what your country can do for you..." attitude. But I am yet to see any seeds of that happening.

If England is to be great again, I fear it will be only after it has risen from some ashes.

Perhaps that has to be the inevitable and inescapable parabolic rise and fall trajectory of empires.

Gravity.