The Guardian (October 5)
Prime Minister Liz Truss “is plugging on while the Tory party implodes…. Watching the Conservative party self-destruct after 12 years of near-untouchable power while the economy tanks is akin to seeing your racist neighbour’s house flood with sewage. It’s delightful schadenfreude – until you realise that stink is heading straight for you.”
Tags: Conservative Party, Economy, Implodes, Plugging on, Power, Schadenfreude, Self-destruct, Sewage, Stink, Tanks, Tory, Truss
Economist (January 11)
“The industries that will suffer most from new regulatory barriers to frictionless trade are those like aerospace, cars, chemicals, food and drink, and pharmaceuticals that rely on uninterrupted supply chains across Europe. They are concentrated in the midlands and north—exactly where Mr Johnson won his new Tory majority. If his weakness in the negotiations causes him to lose favour in those areas, his new domestic strength will be at risk.”
Tags: Aerospace, Brexit, Cars, Chemicals, Drink, Europe, Food, Frictionless trade, Johnson, Pharmaceuticals, Regulatory barriers, Supply chains, Tory, Weakness
The Independent (June 19)
“In the Tory leadership debate, the rare glimmers of truth were even more painful than the lies. It was an ingenious new method of national torture. Five would be prime ministers, appealing to reason, but knowing that in the end, only the psychopaths will decide.”
Tags: Debate, Ingenious, Leadership, Lies, Painful, Prime minister, Psychopaths, Reason, Torture, Tory, Truth
Foreign Policy (June 13)
The Tory party has “bravely put party before country” and their “internal fights” have virtually “wrecked the U.K.” Any achievements the conservative “government might claim—record numbers of people in work, a ‘balancing of the books’—have been completely overshadowed by Brexit, a farce produced as a direct result of internal Tory squabbling and dissension.”
Tags: Achievements, Brexit, Conservative, Farce, Government, Overshadowed, Squabbling, Tory, U.K., Wrecked
The Guardian (May 23)
“All political careers end in failure. Not all end in a punishment beating. The apparently imminent departure of Theresa May as Tory leader has seen a brutality rare even for the British Conservative party.”
Tags: Beating, Brutality, Careers, Departure, Failure, Imminent, May, Political, Punishment, Tory, UK
