My Take | ‘China threat’ is poor excuse to revive left-for-dead Liz Truss
- From the cost-of-living crisis to the collapse of public health and other civil service functions, the real menace to the average British citizen is persistently incompetent government, not China
Zombie, noun. 1a: a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated; b: the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body. 2a: a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead. – Merriam-Webster Online
Why “zombie”? Because we now have four decades’ worth of experience showing that deregulation and tax cuts for the rich do not, in fact, produce higher wages and faster economic growth. So the idea that tax cuts are the secret of prosperity should be dead. – Paul Krugman, columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist
Just when you think Liz Truss is as dead as they come in British politics, supernatural forces are attempting to return the country’s shortest-serving prime minister to the land of the living.
As reported by the conservative Telegraph, “Liz Truss [is] set to reignite China row in fresh challenge to Rishi Sunak … as she continues her return to the political fray.”
Her vehicle of reanimation is, of course, “the China threat”. The outcome, at the moment, is uncertain, as you would expect from any good horror flick, but it rarely ends well. The revived creature, however much it resembles its once-living body, will quickly decay and fall apart. But some “jump scares” along the way may still prove entertaining. Expect some hair-raising moments in her upcoming trip to Japan.