great to have you here. was it in your opinion the economy ultimately or did boris johnson just lie himself out of office? your thoughts. partly policy. he was elected as a conservative but governed as a liberal. the state increased taxes went up. the net zero agenda was putting out the price of energy. we weren t self-sufficient. and there s policy considerations here. ultimately in the united kingdom tell untruths. you cannot tell lies and get away with it. it started over the parties governing at number 10 downing street when the rest of us were living under draconian lock down. we continue visit our moms, for example. over the sex scandal involving a senior conservative politician and in the end, people just said he s lied to us. that is not good enough. we ve had enough. we saw support just disappear over the course of the last two or three days. trace: to those that say it wasn t as much the scandals or the lying or the appointment of his chief deputy whip, chris pi
you could make the argument as the administration has that we were coming out of an economy in park with the covid lock downs and everything else. any movement after that would lead to a pickup in inflation. but to sort of absolve yourself of responsibility for this and say that maybe you reigning in the domestic oil production didn t get this fire going and then to turn around and blame it on the food companies, the cabal of rigging prices with the oil companies, you know, greedily taking advantage of this, there might even be particles of truth to some of that but not all of that. sometimes we learn a great deal from a president, any president, who owns up to the problems and says i m on top of it. a lot of this is on me but i m going to do my best to correct it. very little of that going on here. i think that only adds to the anger on the part of consumers of any political persuasion that say enough, enough. martha: it s been a long time since i ve heard anyone in that