Ma Xiaolin (Professor of Zhejiang Foreign Languages College )
Wake up overnight and the UK changes the weather! On October 20, the crisis-in-deployed Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Liz Tras announced his resignation from his dual position. Conservative Party as soon as next week elects a new leader and takes over No. 10 Downing Street. Tras was automatically eliminated after only 45 days of taking office, setting a record for the "shortest-lived" Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister . The war of conservative power struggle has resurfaced. Labour Party and Liberal Democratic Party demand an early election. Britain, which lacks superheroes and allows the "political dwarfs" toss, has entered a new turbulent stage.
Tras issued a brief statement saying that the Conservative Party elected her to lead the UK in an attempt to change the economic and international instability it faces, and the current situation shows that she is unable to fulfill her mission. Tras once deliberately set himself as the contemporary " Iron Lady " Mrs. Thatcher , and even copied Thatcher's economic policies. However, facts prove that her simple imitation of the sword was not successful. Not only did she destroy her future after taking office, she also lacked the steel will of Thatcher. She was disarmed when she encountered setbacks and was teased by the media as a "paper lady".
After taking office on September 6, Tras introduced two policies to curb the economy dragged down by high inflation and high energy prices: first allocate $68 billion to subsidize households and energy companies, and then issued a tax cut plan of about $51.5 billion. These two "big red envelopes" that lack financial support, especially the largest tax cut plan in 50 years announced on September 23, directly scared investors and instantly defeated the stock market, foreign exchange market and bond market, with a market value of US$500 billion, and the pound depreciated against the US dollar to its lowest point in 40 years.
A week later, the Bank of England urgently issued additional treasury bonds to save the market . Tras was forced to announce the postponement of the tax cut plan, and on October 3, he urgently announced the cancellation of some tax cut policies. "Governing a big country is like cooking a small freshman", but Trass is regarded as a joke in the helm of the United Kingdom. The two major policy reversals in a short period of time are like "turning a pancake". Therefore, the financial crisis has not yet subsided, and the criticism of Tras has been overwhelming, because the prime minister who has gone against the national policy has never been known. Tras's hasty and repetition showed her innate deficiencies in governing ability and experience, which greatly shook the already very fragile trust of the British people and the Conservative Party in her. Under heavy pressure, Trass executed Ma Su in tears and dismissed the Chancellor of Finance Kwasi Kwatten to calm the public's anger. Ten years ago, Trass and Kwoten and several other Thatcherist fans co-authored "Liberation of Britain", advocating the creation of a "trickle-drop effect" to revitalize the economy, break stagnation, and promote growth, helping Britain get rid of mediocrity and become great again. However, they completely forgot that Britain today is no longer the British in Thatcher era. Once they were in power, they opened up old prescriptions to cure new diseases. Not only did they not bring the economy back to life, they almost killed their lives.
International public opinion commented that Queen Elizabeth died and Britain's soft power suffered huge losses; the Trass new policy caused the pound to depreciate like an avalanche, reflecting the decline in Britain's hard power. Two grains of dust from the era fell on the "rookie" Tras, which was like two mountains, directly crushing his ambitions. Three fires were ruthlessly extinguished, and the long-planned Anbang plan turned into "poison". How frustrated Tras was.
, who is helpless, is still in danger of being undermined. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunter was not good, and he used his professional advantages to force Tras to change his course, and even asked Tras to obey his words. The Financial Times published an article on the 17th, describing that Hunter went to parliament to defeat "Tras Economics" instead of praising her, and said that Hunter canceled most of the tax cuts. AFP said Hunter's move puts Trass' status at stake, and quoted Conservative MP Roger Gail as saying that Hunter is already the "de facto Prime Minister." These comments made Tras very heart-wrenching.
Internationally, Trass hit a wall everywhere when he first appeared on the stage, and he was the British Prime Minister with the worst popularity. US President Biden , who came to the UK to attend the Queen's funeral, actually temporarily canceled his meeting with Trass. It is believed that Biden did not like the new British prime minister at all.In addition, Tras is tough and aggressive. He not only speaks wildly to China, but also attacks France as the "enemy", and even curses Germany, Hungary and Turkey and other EU and NATO partners. After more than a month, Tras has been disabled in the internal affairs and has made friends. Not only is it difficult to see Mrs. Thatcher, but it is also eighteen streets worse than another female former prime minister, Theresa May.
The last straw that crushed Trass was not the turbulent public opinion, nor the relatively weak opposition party, nor various international negative comments, but the strange and cruel struggles within the Conservative Party, and the forced slaughter of the palace. The " Daily Mail " published an article on the 17th saying that more than 100 Conservative MPs were preparing to submit a letter of distrust against Tras to the "1922 Committee" and forced him to step down, otherwise his position as leader would be voted on. The "1922 Committee" is an internal organization composed of the Conservative Party's back-row congressmen, responsible for supervising the election or removing the party leader.
According to the Conservative Party rules, the new leader will not be affected by internal impeachment within one year unless more than 60% of Conservative MPs approve the proposal, or 215 of the 358 Conservative MPs turn against each other and modify the party rules. However, Tras, who is expected to continue to be in administration, is disheartened and no longer in love. Perhaps she is too aware of the cruelty and unbearable nature of fighting in the same room. From Cameron , Theresa May to Johnson and then to Trass himself, the Conservative Party’s six-year change of four coaches is a bloody storm. Tras is not only a passionate participant and beneficiary of palace fighting dramas, but also eventually becomes one of the characters of tragedy .
Former British Chancellor Sunak , current Secretary of Defense Wallace, South House of Commons Conservative leader Modant and even former Prime Minister Johnson, who had just been laid off, are all eyeing No. 10 Downing Street. A poll of 530 Conservative Party members showed that after Tras resigned, Johnson's support rate for the comeback was far ahead, 10 percentage points higher than Sunak, and more than three times that of Wallace and Modant. It is not surprising that everyone is on the top and bottom of Britain today, but I am afraid that no one will have the power to restore the world to make Britain shine again.
Photo provided by / Visual China
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