Truss’s political failure is a blessing – rejoice!

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It is akin to the defeat of greedy and malevolent aliens living in our midst (Reuters)

I refer to today’s editorial. The British people have indeed “been denied competent and stable government for some considerable time”. Witness the damage of Brexit – a con engineered to give free rein to the greedy few who lie so far outside the economic norms of the majority that they could be from another planet. Brexit benefits no one beyond its promoters.

Despite the fact that their Brexit is unfinished business, the government has now turned its attention to further gaslighting of the British people. The death on arrival of policies that reflect the actual values and ambitions of the Tory party is a welcome outcome.

It is akin to the defeat of greedy and malevolent aliens living in our midst, consuming our prosperity and unwilling to share theirs. I have little doubt that, if they could get away with these policies, they would be delighted. It would appear they will not.

I do not believe the about-face arises because of “listening” or out of a sense of what is right; rather, it is an attempt to avoid a crushing electoral defeat for the Tory party – one that could prove existential. Let us look forward to more inevitable and beneficial U-turns, whatever their motivation.

This Tory government has its foundation in deceit and lies, and it is disintegrating as a result of them. Hopefully, the opinion polls reflect a long overdue realisation of what this Tory party is really about. In this case, death on arrival is far from a tragedy; political failure of this kind is a blessing. Rejoice!

David Nelmes

Newport

Right and wrong

Is Liz Truss, the current prime minister, the same Liz Truss who, a few weeks ago, advised that she wouldn’t need an ethics adviser as she knew the difference between right and wrong?

Colin Washer

West Sussex

Divide and conquer

It’s been an interesting two weeks or so. Aside from the Queen’s funeral and the near-death experience of the pound, the Ukrainians have busily routed Putin’s remnants in the east and are now looking like doing the same further west.

The strategy looks like one of encircling, cutting off and destroying Putin’s forces east and south. Divide and conquer, via collective action by the Ukrainian army.

Divide and conquer has long been a classic strategy of the Tories – to divide us and then conquer us through the promise of tax cuts together with the burden of spending cuts, pitting the middle against the poor. Now the Tories threaten to carry it to its logical conclusion and defeat the pound, the people and the economy.

We need to fight back. Like the Ukrainians, the patriotic among us who recognise the danger of stagflation fuelling the enrichment of the already rich on the backs of schools, the NHS and, frankly, anyone earning less than about £150,000 need to engage in divide-and-conquer collectivist action against this sham government.

We’ve already seen that they are incompetent in their unfounded tax-cutting budget and the markets’ reaction. We’ve already seen they are callous with their spending cut threats. Now, with the U-turn on the 45p tax rate abolition, we know they are weak – after less than a month in office. And with Labour an average of around 25 points ahead in polling, we know this incompetent, callous and weak sham government can be defeated.

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Britain must now draw its own battle lines on picket lines, in the lines of marchers and in the lines of print before they bring the pound, the people and the country to their knees. Patriotic Tory MPs should now work with Britain and against the dangerous amateur zealots in Downing Street. A different “Britain unchained”. Given all that has happened in just two weeks, two years is simply too long to wait.

Ian Henderson

Norwich

No reply – yet

I sent an email to my Conservative MP about a week ago. I expressed – politely – the view that the PM’s policies were morally and financially wrong and that, as she had not been democratically elected, we should have a general election soon.

I suggested that, though their party might well not win, the best chance of re-election for a Tory backbencher would be for them to stand up against the “fiscal event” plans now. I haven’t had a reply yet.

Susan Alexander

South Gloucestershire