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Truss Issues
Liz Truss, political shape-shifter extraordinaire, morphed into UK prime minister on Monday, as expe
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Alas she already made some false statements about a school she attended, let’s hope she does not make deliberately false statements in the House of Commons as her predecessor!
She does not appear up to the task at hand. It’s possible nobody is, but she looks to be well short.
Could it be that democracies inability to pick leadership ‘up to the task’ creates the vacuum that populist autocrats rush to fill. All across the US we are electing people that don’t have the skills and experience to manage a complex society. I’m not talking about their views but their ability to actually do anything other than talk. In some cases the electorate would be better served by picking a citizen at random. In business it was often acknowledged that picking the right employees was the hardest job. It appears that’s also true for government.
Very true….well said.
Perhaps Truss helps us to recall Shakespeare’s Sonnet 94’s last two lines:
“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.’
H-Man, it appears they have put the captain of the ship during a hurricaine into a canoe and said good luck.