BoJo banished - Liz Truss down. Is Rishi next for the toaster? **threadbans in OP**

I’m actually starting to think there must be some reason that Truss isn’t there, outside of her being a complete coward. She’s either in the midst of a breakdown, or one of her family members is ill. I hope neither are true. But it doesn’t make any sense, at the moment.

Well since Thales and BAE are both publicly traded companies, proving they're owned by Boris's mates is pretty much impossible. Their inclusion on the portfolio of any disaster capitalist is a given though and since Boris' good friend Jacob Rees Mogg's father literally wrote the book on that, it's safe to say their circle will be profiting from the war in Ukraine.

Having actually worked for BAE at one point, I can assure you that the senior management are almost entirely the stereotypical, old-money, privately educated, Oxbridge types one would expect.

I'm not arguing that Britain's support for Ukraine isn't a good thing. I'm saying that while I, or maybe even you, would have supported Ukraine out of moral principle, the same morality can't be ascribed to Johnson or his cabinet. These are the same people who let their own citizens die as a result of contracting their inner circle to provide over-priced, ineffective PPE during the Covid crisis. They act in their own interests, not those of others. Johnson was only delighted to make a show of supporting Ukraine as it let him play at being Churchill without having to deal with English soldiers dying while also lining the pockets of friends and key party donors (or the colloquial "his mates from college").

Truss is sitting there looking like she’s on tranquillisers