Truss Cabinet Picks, Illegal Boat Surge & Polish Blast EU
A Truss Cabinet appears to be shaping up.
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Truss Cabinet Shaping Up
With Liz Truss holding giant poll leads over Rishi Sunak, thinking has started to shift to what a Truss premiership could look like.
Sir John Curtice, the highly respected polling expert, now gives Sunak just a 5% chance of becoming the next Prime Minister.
It is little wonder then that thoughts are turning to who could serve in a potential Truss Cabinet.
Indeed in news that Brexiteers will be happy to hear, The Times report that:
Truss is already drawing up detailed plans for her first 100 days in office with Kwasi Kwarteng, Suella Braverman, James Cleverly, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Kemi Badenoch expected to take key Cabinet roles.
What do all of those MPs have in common? They all voted Leave of course.
The rumours as to how this all-Brexiteer line-up will look? Kwarteng as Chancellor, Braverman as Home Secretary, Cleverly as Foreign Secretary, Badenoch as Education or Culture Secretary plus a big role for Mogg.
It is all about delivery in those roles of course. But I think those appointments would be a fantastic statement of intent from a Truss Government.
As readers will know, I am a big fan of Suella Braverman who of course actually had the guts to advocate leaving the ECHR to stop the illegal migration crisis.
If the Conservatives are to win back the support of many Leavers then a much tougher approach is required. If Braverman as Home Secretary is allowed to get the UK out of ECHR it would show that Liz Truss is serious about delivering proper political reform and change.
Huge Crossing Numbers
In terms of the numbers crossing from France this year on small boats, we have already surpassed some 21,000 people in 2022. Indeed the number of crossings is running at around double what we saw last year.
That includes over 600 people who came across on Wednesday alone. Another sign that despite all the talk of the Rwanda policy, the numbers crossing are now surging rather than decreasing.
Remainstream media of course prefer to duck this issue entirely. But just look at the official figures for 8th - 14th August. In a week it shows that 1,974 migrants crossed on 44 boats.
It all underlines the huge scale of a problem the Government have simply not done much to actually stop. I hope the next Government get a grip on this and fast.
Poland Blast EU’s Direction
Friction between the Polish Government and Brussels continues to grow.
There is no doubt that the language and rhetoric coming out of Poland criticising the European Union grows more fierce.
The Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has now warned against EU imperialism, saying that:
"Political practice has shown that the positions of Germany and France count more than all the others.
"So we are dealing with a formal democracy and a de facto oligarchy in which the strongest hold power.”
Comments from the head of Poland’s central bank, Adam Glapiński, are even more extraordinary. He has accused Germany of aiming for:
"The recovery in some form of their former lands, which are now within Poland's borders, and the subjugation of this entire belt of countries between Germany and Russia.”
Claimed that:
"Having a sovereign central bank, our own money - the złoty - and our dynamic economic development is what most annoys them.”
And in something of a rallying cry has proclaimed:
"We have to persevere, we have to win, we have to maintain the złoty, we have to maintain a patriotic government, so that in 10 years we can sit down at the table with the Germans, the French, the Italians and every other country, as equals.”
Polexit of course is being discussed more and more. Though a Polish exit is unlikely to happen any time soon, the lesson when it comes to the EU is clear.
Either you sign up for further centralisation of power as part of EU membership, with the new German Government pushing for a full superstate.
Or you Leave!
The dinghy crossing numbers make interesting reading. How do they compare with numbers drowned?