The example of Britain shows where a crisis condition of political personnel can go. What is happening in Britain is particularly instructive. There especially in the Conservative Party they have a large stock of politicians who move more in terms of a cynical claim to power than a strategic perspective.
This was also seen in how several people positioned themselves in favor of Brexit without having any real awareness of the difficulties and problems that this entailed.
But also in the way that several who were against Brexit later decided to serve it. The highlight of all this is the impressive tradition they have of intra-party stabbings.
Boris Johnson for example did everything in his power to undermine Theresa May with the sole aim of succeeding her which he did. He managed to undermine his own office by violating the rules he imposed on the citizens.
And of course, when the time came, he also faced an impressive “rebellion” of his party against him. Which was exploited by the ambitious, but as it turns out unprepared for such a role, Liz Truss and managed to get elected.
And of course her first move was to remove her leadership rival Rishi Sunak from the finance ministry and install her supporter Kwasi Kwarteng.
With which they decided that they could “square the circle” in economic policy. Because they decided that they could simultaneously reduce taxation and increase public spending significantly.
Only that would mean more debt and that in turn blew up the UK bond market and almost blew up the pension system, since pension funds are heavily invested in bonds.
So the ambitious Liz Truss was forced to change course, to resign her finance minister in a bad way, to install another and to declare that she would follow a more “orthodox” fiscal policy.
However, this case continues to show one of the problems we face today.
The appearance in the ruling parties of a younger generation of politicians who are mainly interested in communication and poll indicators rather than in devising strategy and producing programs that actually work.
Politicians who are ready and willing to propose even brilliant ideas and compromise the state of the economy, thinking it would make them look better.
Except that if we think about it, it is precisely a symptom of a deeper crisis in the very ability of the political system to produce leaders. And this makes the example of Britain particularly instructive.
