Well, you gotta hand it to Liz Truss; she used her 10 day ‘grace period’ well. With her Chancellor she worked out a system to take an economic situation which looked fairly precarious and managed, in just a few days, to plunge it into the depths of never-before-land. And I don’t mean necessarily about the rapidly declining exchange rates, nor the horrendous rises in interest rates or the mortgage problems to follow. I mean she’s sent us through the looking glass into a world in which the Labour Party is seen as the ones ‘prudent with the economy’. Whilst the Conservatives run fast and furious into decades of increasingly expensive debt. Which is not a very conservative thing to do.

It has to be said that this is a longish term strategy and therefore may indeed come good. But the response from the entire world has been one of something less than wholehearted approval. Which may prove wrong in time, we don’t know. The tax cuts haven’t even been applied yet. It may come to pass that Liz and Kwasi are just much cleverer than everyone else and got it spot on. Or it may not. And they will be consigned to history for making a small idea into a global catastrophe one night when staring at the ceiling under the influence of a certain smokable substance which does that to thought processes. Cheech and Chong never did politics, and there’s a fucking good reason why not.

Meanwhile, we’ve had a ‘nice’ break from football this weekend to give the national team a chance to… errrr… to improve on their recent form. And they did so. Not, like, to any ‘stunning effect’, or any type of redemption or salvation, but improve they did. Because although they lost the first weekend match to Italy, 1-nil, making it 5 straight losses in a row, they did manage to hold those Germans to a 3-3 draw last night. Which normally would not be cause for any massive, coronation-type celebration. But firstly we didn’t lose and secondly, we scored some goals. Something which has been sadly lacking from our national game since losing to Italy in the Euro final.

Next up, the World Cup!!! In Qatar. Which will be… interesting.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx