NEW British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, have kicked off the post-Johnson era with a policy blitz – Thatcherism on steroids – that has shaken the international financial system, the Bank of England and the Tory party itself.
The turmoil, the denunciations, the denials, the U-turns and the shiver-shakes remind former Durban wordsmith, Wordsworth, aka John MacDonald, of the Beatles number Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.
Wordsworth once wrote a regular column in The Mercury on the foibles of the English language.
Today he does much the same in Bulgaria. Here goes:
Kwasi puts the frighteners on the marketplace,
Lizzie is the leader of his band.
Kwasi says to Lizzie: “Girl, we’ve lost the place,”
And Liz says this as she slaps him on the hand:
Tweedle-dum-Tori-da, strife goes…
