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Liz Truss - Foreign Secretary - Liz Truss replaces Dominic Raab as foreign secretary. She moves from her role as international trade secretary. She was previously in Theresa May’s cabinet as the first female lord chancellor between 2016 and 2017. She served as environment secretary in David Cameron's government from 2014-16. Ms Truss was elected to Parliament in 2010 after serving as deputy director of think tank Reform. In a widely-publicised speech in June 2018, she attacked cabinet colleagues for demanding more money, saying it would only lead to higher taxation.
Following Lord Frost's resignation,
former Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will now remume negotiations
on Brexit. So far Boris the Johnson has failed to live up to his
election promise, to get the job done. Indeed, for his deception
of the voters, not to be a total flop, Ms Truss must now pull
out all the stops. Or the promise will be another lie to add to
the long wake
of sleaze he is generating as he attempts to sail HMS Great
Britain up shit
creek, at the moment without
a paddle, including lying
to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth on proroguing parliament,
failing to declare income for exotic
gold wallpaper, and human rights abuses over Covid
Passports.
Naturally, we wish Ms Truss every success in the long uphill climb ahead. But maybe, she can bring some common sense to the table, to speed HMS Great Britain through choppy seas. The UK has a habit of not adopting new technology, such as Erikson's propeller and Frank Whittle's jet engine. But has a good pedigree when it comes to innovation. To wit, Parson's Turbinia and John Harrison's marine chronometer. Amazingly, England gave away the lead on all of these, treating the inventors rather shabbily.
The UK no longer has slaves in colonies supplying riches by the boatload. What is left of the former British Empire is the Commonwealth. The last vestiges of the glory days. These days, we tax everything several times over, and don't reveal where those taxes are being spent. The government treat voters like mushrooms; keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit.
It's high time we had a Written Constitution, to stop Masons and Quangos from procuring outcomes in our Courts - with the police complicit and party to such perversions of justice. Many Crown and High Court judges have in effect, been influenced (bought) with titles. We also need for absolute transparency in local and national government to stamp out Article 14 discrimination and corruption, in this oft unpleasant land.
We might employ the same algorithms developed to combat terrorism, to modernize the detection of planning and procurement crime. MPs bank accounts and property dealings should be routinely monitored, to halt bribes and almost undetectable favours, like permission for houses and developers constructing for free, instead of giving cash. Then of course we have political party donations, and especially timing in relation to honours. Apparently, these can be bought for cash. It's like a personalised number plate, if the price is right.
Oh for corruption free UK. Liz Truss is one of the few MPs who seem to be content with her lot. Well done Liz. Let's hope the Brexit negotiating table will not break her spirit.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson carried out a reshuffle of his 24 cabinet members on Wednesday (15 September 2021), removing several key ministers.
This is the second major reshuffle since Mr Johnson became leader of the Conservative party and took over as prime minister from Theresa May in July 2019. The last one took place in February 2020. But can any amount of shuffling within a party with tunnel vision, cure their toxic policies?
Some of the big moves included Liz Truss to foreign secretary, the Tories' first woman in that role; Nadhim Zahawi moved from leading the vaccine rollout to education - at the expense of Gavin Williamson; and Nadine Dorries stepped up from health minister to culture secretary.
Who's in the other posts? Below is a guide to the people that make up Mr Johnson's cabinet, with the latest new faces. The burning question is, will it make any difference to Britain's performance on the world climate stage. Or will they be feathering their nests and fiddling on their violins, while the planet burns?
Following the abysmal result from COP26, all that can be said is, the cabinet need to scratch their heads a little more, stop taking second jobs - that deprives their constituents of MP time, or time that should be spent thinking on COP27 (set for Egypt) and saving lives. And of course, developing a sustainable economy.
Apart from the rather misguided denials from China, USA, India, Russia and Australia, COP26 did give us reductions on forest felling, and at least the mention of fossil fuels in the approved text.
Accordingly, the countries assume commitments to build up efforts for reduction of
energy consumption based on unabated coal and abandonment of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
THE DIRTIEST DOZEN G20 - COAL, GAS & OIL GUZZLERS - COP OUTS.
G20 abusers will say they had no choice. They needed to keep burning coal, gas and oil for their economies - just like the camp guards at the many concentration camps in WWII, they were forced into business as usual. In the case of the camp guards, they argued they were just following orders. But that is not true. We all have choices. There are clean alternatives, such as solar and wind power. There is no need to keep building coal fired electricity generating stations, and no need to drive carcinogenic petrol or diesel vehicles that contribute to between 7-8 million deaths a year from lung cancer. We have hydrogen fuel cells, electrolyzers and zero emission electric vehicles.
If
you are going to increase electricity capacity, it makes sense
to invest in renewable
energy, unless it is that the fossil
fuel giants are lubricating the works with party
donations.
If that is the case, we say that such contributions should be
transparently declared, that the public is informed as to what
is guiding policy decisions.
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The make-up of the cabinet has also changed with all the comings and goings. There are two more women then there had been before the reshuffle, but the proportion has stayed about the same because the overall number of people attending cabinet has also increased slightly.
As for the education of those now in cabinet, about 63% of them went to private schools, down slightly when compared to Mr Johnson's previous reshuffle last year - but still a stark contrast to his predecessor's. Just 30% of Theresa May's first cabinet in 2016 attended independent schools, which was fewer than both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's original cabinets.
According to the Sutton Trust social mobility charity, every prime minister since 1937 who attended university was educated at Oxford - except for Mr Brown. At 43%, Mr Johnson's new cabinet has slightly fewer members who were educated at Oxford or Cambridge compared to his last reshuffle - but it's still more than double what is was in Tony Blair's first cabinet in 1997.
It is no fault of Bozo, that Australia, China, India, Russia and USA have refused to cease using coal in the near future (2030- 2040), but they did sign the Glasgow Climate Pact.
Those countries with fossil fool policies are too entrenched in carcinogenic fuels to save around two hundred and forty 240,000,000 million lives from 2030 to 2050. This figure is based on current death statistics from lung cancer and related respiratory diseases, that are likely to rise as earth's temperature increases. This does not include projected deaths from heat stroke, starvation, thirst and displacement.
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