To talk about this British Parliament The debate stage of the House of Commons, the climax stage, is much more chaotic than any undisciplined university classroom.
Even if the Prime Minister speaks, there are always noises in the audience. If
agrees, he should sigh heavily; and more common are the boos from opponents.
It is in this booing that in the face of the doubts of the members of the parliament, the Prime Minister Elizabeth Trass snarled firmly - I am a fighter, not a quitter (I’m a fighter not a quitter).
If you are interested, you can search for this video to experience the chaotic "democratic scene" of the British Parliament when "discussing national affairs."
Moreover, it seems that you can feel the new prime minister's determination to persevere in the end without resigning through the screen.
But... It has only been 24 hours, at 1:30 pm on October 20th local time, Elizabeth Trass spoke outside in a dark blue dress, No. 10 Downing Street, , officially announcing that he would resign as British Prime Minister .
What is even more unexpected is that the Prime Minister, who was very tough the day before, kept apologizing in his resignation speech, as if he had changed his personal information (the specific reason will be discussed later).
admit defeat so quickly? After giving her speech lonely, she walked into No. 10 Downing Street with her husband Hugh O'Leary.
If you look closely, you will also find that the suit that Tras wore on the spot when she announced her resignation seemed to be the dress she had when she took her husband to No. 10 Downing Street 45 days ago (picture below).
...it finally achieved some echoes from beginning to end.
Elizabeth Trass, the UK she took over is indeed quite bad, so some people jokingly say that being the prime minister at this time seems to be here to overcome the disaster.
However, the same person who took the initiative to "pass the tribulation", Trass's imitation target, Mrs. Thatcher , played a role in turning the tide; another female prime minister, Theresa May also took office in a critical moment. Although he did not have many achievements in his predecessors, he also worked hard for three years, and the reputation he left was quite good.
But when he arrived in Tras, he actually broke the shortest term of office set by George Canning in 1827, which lasted 195 years and 119 days, and reduced the shortest term of office as prime minister to less than 50 days.
I have to say one more thing here. The reason why George Canning's term of office was not because he resigned or was forced to step down due to impeachment, but because he caught a cold while attending the funeral of Duke of York in Windsor and died of complications caused by a severe cold.
George Canning (April 11, 1770 - August 8, 1827), looks a bit weak,
OK, let's talk about this British "female fighter".
Although Tras is always considered to like to imitate Mrs. Thatcher, the result proves that this elder sister only learned "skin" but did not understand the essence.
What is even more unexpected is that such a rebellious "female warrior" admits to his conscience so quickly that even TV dramas with legal themes dare not reverse so drastically.
and some netizens ruthlessly mocked her as "paper lady" and "crazy lady".
is obvious. From the 19th to the 20th, in these 24 hours, Tras must have been under tremendous pressure from the Conservative Party .
If the Prime Minister does not resign voluntarily, he will most likely be impeached.
But the British system is different from that of the United States. In addition to targeting individuals, the impeachment of the Prime Minister will also lead to the impeachment of the entire Conservative government and then a new round of elections will be held.
In a similar situation, Trass's ex Johnson is also forced to resign.
The strong dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Johnson put the Conservative Party under tremendous pressure in early July this year, as far as possible, the Conservative Party was prevented from becoming infamous due to Johnson's personal scandal and eventually lost the next parliamentary election (the leader of the British parliamentary election, who won the majority of the seats, served as prime minister, and organized a cabinet), and members of the Conservative Party's cabinet began to resign.
In just two and a half days, more than 50 senior government officials announced their resignations one after another.
By July 7, Johnson, who had almost become a "bare commander" in the face of the empty cabinet, finally surrendered and gave a resignation speech reluctantly.
After all, if Johnson does not resign again, his cabinet will become like this.
7 In July, the "colleagues" of the Conservative Party could do so ruthlessly. Their goal is clear - to "force the palace" to Johnson who refuses to step down by making the existing cabinet unable to work, and then quickly elect the next British Prime Minister.
It is obvious that this time Tras was also "routine" by the Conservatives - by abandoning the Prime Minister, he tried to resolve the crisis within the Conservatives to maintain decent and as much rights as possible.
However, in terms of resistance to stress, Tlas, who has cosplayed the "Iron Lady" for many years, is indeed not as good as the "Little Golden Retriever" Johnson.
Johnson had to withstand it for two and a half days.
What is even more surprising is that with Tras' loss of power, Johnson's popularity actually rose again.
Although Tras was teased and mocked by Russian spokesperson Zakharova because of geographical knowledge problems (he has been the foreign minister for many years but is not familiar with the name of Russia's administrative state), in fact, Tras is a top student who graduated from a prestigious university.
On July 26, 1975, Tras was born in a Labor left-wing family in Oxford, England. Her father, John Kenneth, is a professor at the University of Leeds, and her mother, Priscia Tras, is a medical worker.
Tesla received an elite education since childhood and smoothly entered the Merton College of Oxford University to study majors in philosophy, political science and economics (PPE).
Oxford college student Tras
But during her college days, she resolutely abandoned the Labor Party , which had family roots and once showed enthusiasm, and directly devoted herself to the embrace of the more radical Liberal Democrats, and soon served as the chairman of the Liberal Democrats at Oxford University, the National Executive Committee of the National Executive Committee of the Party, and performed particularly actively.
During this period, she strongly supported the legalization of marijuana and even took the lead in shouting the slogan of "abolition of the monarchy".
In the TV debate, young Trass publicly questioned the legitimacy and rationality of the Windsor royal family - no one is born to be a ruler (picture below).
This video was lit on the day she was elected Prime Minister and visited the Queen. What is confusing is that after joining the work (manager of the department of Shell Company), this radical young politician actually abandoned everything from the Liberal Democratic Party in a flash and "instantly" became a Conservative Party member.
is likely, the main reason is that she believes that the Liberal Democratic Party is too weak and has no future for development. Based on the principle of "people go to a high place" to seek profit, she "climb the branches" and invested in the stronger Conservative Party so that she can later get the opportunity to hold important positions in politics.
But no matter what, a political rookie who chanted the slogan "supporting the legalization of marijuana" not long ago and "defeating the monarchy" not long ago, she suddenly turned around and joined a party that opposed the legalization of marijuana and clearly wrote "loyalty to the emperor" into the party's platform. It may be a bit embarrassing if an ordinary person has just turned from a student to a "working person" to join a political party that opposes the legalization of marijuana and clearly writes "loyalty to the emperor" into the party's platform.
Of course, Tras doesn't care about this.
When she was the Foreign Minister, Trass, who was "down to the grassroots level", however, until later, when she became a Conservative Party boss, she could still vaguely see the appearance of the "radical young woman" back then from some of her behaviors and choices.
For example, after marriage, he did not change his husband's surname, but insisted on using the maiden name of Tras;
There is also the criticized "half curtsy" when he paid homage to the queen.
Even if I met with the new king Charles III a few days later, Tras still did not perform the traditional Curtsey .
This time, what caused Tras to lose his ruling foundation was mainly due to her poor £45 billion tax cut plan.
At the beginning of his tenure, Tras announced the most radical tax cut plan in the UK after World War II .
Because the government's main income is taxation, once the tax decreases, the budget will naturally shrink, so this plan is also called "mini budget".
The ones that caused public outrage were mainly concentrated in the following two points:
lowered the basic personal income tax from 20% to 19% in advance;
The maximum income tax for people with annual income above 150,000 pound was reduced from 45% to 40%.
Although the quality of public education in the UK has declined in recent years, this account can be clarified for ordinary people.
Anyone with a little IQ can figure it out. This is simply a "privileged preferential policy" tailored for the rich. When the tax cut policy was first introduced, Tras was still full of confidence. Not long after this combination punch was launched, the market also gave a strong response - the pound plummeted, the price soared, and the government bond prices plummeted, forcing the Bank of England to urgently repurchase Treasury bonds to stabilize the market.
At the same time, because the government budget was forcibly "slimming down", the funds were short of money, and in the future, the benefits used to subsidize vulnerable groups are also facing the situation of being reduced.
What is more dangerous is that this poses a serious threat to the British's pension funds. The rise in interest rates has caused the cost of mortgages to increase sharply, causing the middle class to suffer.
It can be predicted that if Trass' tax cut plan continues to be implemented, the UK's economy may be killed and the social division will become even more serious.
People are extremely angry. This is not like revitalizing the economy, it is clearly about pushing the British economy into the abyss.
Even the entire Europe has seen enough jokes from the British.
British media started live broadcasting on September 7, putting her photo with a lettuce, and broadcast live every day to watch who can "live" longer
However, under the angrily condemnation, Tras, the "female warrior", did not want to give up. He quickly found a "burden" - Chancellor Quincy Kwoten announced his voluntary resignation.
This black elder brother has also become the shortest-serving secretary of the Chancellor of the UK since 1970.
Tras and Kwoten were once a pair of hardcore partners
However, Kwoten's voluntary resignation obviously could not calm public anger.
Everyone understands it very well. The tax reduction reform carried out by Kwoten is implemented by Prime Minister Trass.
Vice Chairman of the Russian Security Conference Medvedev mocked: " Nobel Prize in Economics should be awarded to Tras in recognition of her for destroying the national fiscal system as fast as possible."
And for the people of the UK, after the new prime minister came to power, most people were looking forward to the new government's introduction of severe measures to restrict inflation, as well as policies to provide more welfare and protect people's livelihood... Unexpectedly, what was waiting for was a tax reduction policy that allowed the rich to make more money, the welfare of the poor was cut, and the middle class was heavily in debt. How could this not arouse huge opposition?
Entered mid-October. As Tras's private approval rating dropped to an astonishing 7%, the Conservatives could no longer sit still...
so that both the British people and some Conservative congressmen remembered the fact that although they were lies during their term, their social welfare was maintained quite well. Boris Johnson - he may be back...
and the Indian Chancellor Rich Sunak, who had lost to Tras in the election.But I don't know whether the Conservative Tonys are willing to accept such a wealthy and rich country people of color as their boss.
Sunak's family. His father-in-law is a billionaire named Narayana Murtie, a "father of the IT industry" and "Bill Gates of India". However, whether it is Johnson or Sunak, at best, it may be a papermaker of the British Empire.
In fact, wealthy European countries, including the United Kingdom, are now facing a seemingly unsolvable deadlock - the contradiction between high welfare and deindustrialization .
, on the one hand, is the financial pressure brought by a high welfare society.
There is nothing wrong with high welfare society. Everyone wants to live a good life, which is also one of our goals.
However, "It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality." For more than half a century, the lives of Western European people have been so comfortable. They always feel that vegetables grow in supermarkets, electricity is waiting at the switch, and gasoline is in the oil gun at the gas station. Then, after getting used to being comfortable, letting people live hard days again without any pre-practice and buffering will surely arouse public grievances.
The British people who took to the streets to protest the tax cuts
, and on the other hand, deindustrialization.
The basis for living a good life in Europe is cheap energy and the industrial prosperity supported by the third world cheap labor. But the financial industry that is not built in the void in the world will collapse over time.
England abandoned factories
Just like that, the British were not willing to tighten their belts and live a hard life, and they could not continue to maintain industrialization. The whole society gradually fell into a deadlock, and it would not work if anyone was to fix it.
Not to mention her Trass, it is Churchill , Roosevelt come alive. You will take him to be the British Prime Minister now, and the effect may not be much better.
Elizabeth Trass, the beginning of the story is still very inspiring. But unexpectedly, the short term was full of British cold humorous elements - I saw the queen away for two days after taking office, the "ten-day reform" was aborted, and the 45-day rolling was covered and left.
#Foreign media: Tras announced his resignation as British Prime Minister#
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