{"id":8463,"date":"2018-10-27T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8463"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:37:02","slug":"all-mouth-no-trousers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8463\/","title":{"rendered":"All Mouth, No Trousers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before<\/a> about the Republicans and Obamacare:<\/p>\n

If we are to believe the words that come out of their mouths, the Establishment Republicans were vehemently opposed to Obamacare and longed for the day they could repeal it. But if that were the case, they would have spent the necessary time and effort to come up with a viable alternative and presented that to the public loudly and often during those five or six years that they were in opposition and Obamacare was in force. Only they didn\u2019t: for all their talk in the election about repealing Obamacare, when it came to the job of actually coming up with an alternative, they didn\u2019t have a clue.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

I suspect the Establishment Republicans are terrified at having to come up with a genuine alternative because it will involve hard work and taking on the enormously powerful vested interests that make providing healthcare in America almost impossible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I compared the above with the Tories’ dithering over Brexit, but 18 months on the comparison is even more apt. Here’s an article<\/a> in The Telegraph<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Every weekend it\u2019s the same. Theresa May is on the brink. Tory Brexiteers are poised to strike. They\u2019re just two letters away from a vote of no confidence. The end is only days away. Mrs May is doomed.<\/p>\n

And then\u2026 nothing happens.<\/p>\n

Every weekend. Every single weekend. Honestly. The Prime Minister\u2019s backbench critics like to call her \u201cweak\u201d. Perhaps they could tell us: what word should we use to describe people who endlessly declare they\u2019re about to depose her, but never go through with it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few weeks ago, Boris Johnson looked poised to launch a leadership bid, depose the hapless May, and sit down with the EU for some serious negotiations on Brexit. Instead, as the article says, nothing happened. The contribution to Brexit of Jacob Rees-Mogg, the man in whom many placed their highest hopes, is to moan about things on Twitter. Even his biggest fans are unable to contain their disappointment:<\/p>\n

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Jacob I have the greatest respect for you, & to me you are a Conservative which is more than I can say for some in the party. BUT I get fed up with moaning Brexiteers who do nought, nil, nothing, zilch about may when they have the chance, she is ruining the country and the party<\/p>\n

\u2014 longtime Tory (@petergabscar) October 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n