
Britannia unhinged
The Slow Newscast
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Are You Ready to Be Unpopular?
The new Prime Minister and Chancellor are trying to press gang the country into signing up for a completely new, risky economic model. Liz Truss and Quasi Quatex are still staking everything on their new era in spite of the setbacks. The real fight goes bigger and wider than even the mightiest department in the land. As one senior Treasury person put it to me, this is a battle between ideology and pragmatism. Pragmatism has notched up the first win, but the war goes on.
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