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Will Britain’s Worst Ever Prime Minister Survive Today’s Vote of No Confidence?
The world’s watching.
The Conservative and Unionist Party is a coalition of very powerful interests.
They range from profoundly wealthy financiers to newspaper barons, who have pushed arduously to ensure that its interests are never compromised by our highly corrupt and compliant politicians.
And precisely for this reason, it has embraced pragmatism as its raison d’etre, over the course of the last few centuries.
Its pragmatism on the leading issues of the day is why it adopted protectionist policies under Benjamin Disraeli’s premiership in the 19th century. It explains why Lord Salisbury went to war with the Dutch (Boers) over the lucrative diamond mines in South Africa in 1899 and went on to import Chinese indentured labourers while officially denying that it was slavery.
Its natural position explains why Winston Churchill became Prime Minister over Lord Halifax and Anthony Eden in 1940, and why Eden was defenestrated when the Americans threatened British economic interests in the aftermath of the botched invasion of Egypt during the Suez Crisis in 1956.
It was also the reason why Margaret Thatcher became expendable in 1990, despite her stunning success in routing the Argentinians…