by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I know just enough about the Benny Hill skit that is current British politics to make a fool out of myself, but here goes. As I understand it, the issue of the day for the Brits is they have a horrible, incompetent PM in the guise of Liz Truss who simply can not, will not, take the hint that it’s time to go.
This is all complicated by two things — nobody wants her predecessor Boris Johnson to come back, even though he’s got populist appeal, and the Tory backbenchers don’t want to call a snap election because they fear that they’ll lose their jobs.
And, as such, the United Kingdom finds itself in something of a sticky wicket. A crisis that grows more severe by the moment.
It seems logical to this outsider that King Charles should, for the sake of the nation, use his royal prerogative and fire Truss. But this is extremely problematic because him doing so would upend the careful apolitical nature of the British monarchy and God only knows where things might endup.
I constantly think about how the UK is now (essentially) Europe’s sole major multi-state nation and, in a sense, its continued existence doesn’t make much sense. It definitely seems, in a sense, that if the UK just peacefully split into its component parts through self-determination that a lot of unlocked potential would be unleashed.
And, yet, if THAT happened to the UK, good Lord what might happen to the United States in a few years, since the two countries on a macro political level tend to bounce back and forth following each other.
So, I am more than happy to keep the UK intact. It will be interesting to see what the ultimate outcome of this crisis is, however.
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