北村紗衣です。北海道生まれ、駒場にいたあとロンドンでジェダイとなって戻ってきました。シェイクスピアリアンで、バーレスク好きです。『シェイクスピア劇を楽しんだ女性たち』『お砂糖とスパイスと爆発的な何か』『批評の教室』の著者です。皆様にフォースの守りを。๑(・_・)๑ Have PhD, will travel.
- Liz Truss was selected to replace Boris Johnson by members of the Conservative Party
- She announced a raft of unfunded tax cuts to “grow the economy”
- The economy collapsed
- She sacked her chancellor
- She resigned
Fin.
- The UK left the European Union in January 2020
- Major Brexit issues remain unresolved and it has negatively impacted the UK economy
- Boris Johnson was forced to resign in disgrace in July 2022 following a series of scandals
- She couldn’t get the Conservative party to agree on a Brexit deal so she quit
- Boris Johnson became Prime Minister promising to “Get Brexit done”
- He called a general election and won a majority
- Theresa May became Prime Minister saying that “Brexit means Brexit”
- It turned out that nobody actually knew what Brexit meant
- She called an election and lost the majority
- He promised a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU if he won the election
- He won the election
- The referendum was held; 52% of people voted to leave the EU
- David Cameron resigned
For those asking from around the world how Britain has gotten into this mess:
- The Conservative Party has always been obsessed with Europe
- This caused divides making the party hard to manage
- Back in 2015 then Prime Minister David Cameron had an idea
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (1968)
JEAN LUC GODDARD
Goddard captures THE ROLLING STONES in the studio at the exact moment SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL comes together for the very first time.
Word of the day is 'blutterbunged' (19th century dialect): dumbfounded, confounded, and open-mouthed in amazement.
(Not to be confused with 'dumfungled': utterly exhausted.)