We'll have to wait and see who is in his cabinet, but the one saving grace about Sunak, if that's the right way to look at things, is he isn't a member of the ERG.
The Tufton Street mob, and it's not just the ERG, but the Tax Payers Alliance, The Centre for Policy Studies, Global Warming Foundation, and numerous other extreme right wing groups with reasonable sounding names all gathered in the same location, have promoted their thoughts on how the country should be run for many years.
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwartang are members of the ERG, and together with other contributors, Dominic Rabb and Priti Patel among others, published a book 10 years or so ago titled Britannia Unchained, whereby they laid out thier vision for the UK.
It wasn't very complimenatery about the average UK worker, but what they aspired to was a low tax, small state country, free from employment, consumer, and environmental protections. A companies primary objective should be to the shareholders, not society, and the market, not legislation, should determine everything.
Other ERG members of the tory party, such as Jacob Reese-Mogg and Mark Francois, aided and abetted over the years by the right wing media telling their lies about about our membership of the EU, such as banning prawn cocktail crisps and bent bananas, have been pivotal over the years in wanting us to exit the EU because we had lost our sovereignty.
Many believed it, and any critcism of their thinking was decried as project fear.
Thier ideology couldn't be achieved while we were members of the EU.
The ERG politicians are a powerful force behind the scenes in Westminster, and they had wanted stooges for their ideology in positions of power for many years. They achieved that with Truss and Kwartang becoming Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Two members of the ERG, surrounded by other members of the ERG, such as Penny Maudaunt, and Kwartang launched his mini budget, widely proclaimed by the right wing press at the time as a 'Tory Budget'.
Their adolescent grasp of ecomomics, built up over many decades by listening to lectures and reading papers written by right wing nut jobs, was put into practice, and the result was a tanking of the economy.
No advice was sought from any quarter, be it from the OBR or any other source, and Truss sacked the most senior advisor from the Treasury before they embarked on their financial experiment that was doomed to fail from the start. Every right thinking economist would have told them trickle down economics doesn't work, never has, and her growth, growth, growth mantra was a total fantasy.
I personally couldn't give a stuff what actions Truss took to try and save her skin. We will all be paying a heavy price for their collective idiocy, and the two of them, backed by the ERG MP's, have collectively stuffed our finances for decades.
One thing that won't change in all of this, though, is it will still be the poorest and most vulnerable that will suffer the most as austerity Mk 2 takes hold and the tories look after their own.
The next election can't come soon enough for me so we can boot out the most devisive, incompetant and ruinous government this country has ever experinced.
Just one last thing.
It won't be their fault!
