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Why Liz Truss resigned as U.K. prime minister: A guide to the chaos
By Leo Sands Adela Suliman and Karla Adam
Updated October 20, 2022 at 4:37 p.m. EDT|Published October 20, 2022 at 9:44 a.m. EDT

"British Prime Minister Liz Truss's disastrous month in power may cause her exit within days
"UK conservatives implode - Liz Truss fires finance minister while reversing policies that sank British pound
"Bank of England intervenes to avert credit crunch, economic fallout"" "

VIDEO -- British prime minister Liz Truss resigned after just 45
days in office. Here are the (few) highlights. (The Washington Post)

LONDON — After just a month and a half as prime minister, the majority of which was spent clinging on for her political life, Liz Truss announced Thursday that she is resigning. Now she is set to become the shortest-serving occupant of Downing Street in 300 years of British history.

A disastrous series of self-inflicted wounds — which turned into a political death spiral — began with a misfired attempt by the Conservative Party leader to radically reorient the government’s economic agenda, by slashing taxes without saying how the decision would be paid for. It sent the markets reeling, and Truss never recovered.

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[Insert: Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid resign from cabinet in huge blow to Boris Johnson
''BORIS&DONALD - Boris Johnson’s political brand is in deep trouble
"As Europe Shuts Down, Britain Takes a Different, and Contentious, Approach""
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By the end, Truss had grown so unpopular that her fellow party lawmakers were publicly contemplating plans to replace her.
Let us walk you through what happened.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/20/uk-liz-truss-why-how-resignation/

Back to Brexit:

Sky will cost Rupert Murdoch $2.5bn less after Brexit vote
Plunge of sterling means 21st Century Fox is paying 15% less than it would have before EU referendum
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/12/sky-rupert-murdoch-brexit-vote-21st-century-fox-eu-referendum

Many sources say Murdoch had a relatively major influence in the Brexit vote.

Why does Rupert Murdoch want a Brexit?
Newstalk 13.49 15 Jun 2016
[...]...he figured it would be the "40 years" of anti-European stories The Sun has run that will have had the bigger impact.
https://www.newstalk.com/business/why-does-rupert-murdoch-want-a-brexit-592236

Even the Murdoch press is now waking up to the truth: Brexit was an act of self-harm
Michael Heseltine
When the most anti-EU newspapers are pointing to the policy’s inevitable failures, it’s time our government admitted the truth
Sat 11 Jun 2022 00.48 AEST
[...] ...It may take time. Brexit took 43 years. Initially, that process began slowly. It picked up pace and virulence with the acquisition of major newspapers by Rupert Murdoch and Conrad Black, and with the replacement of David English, a staunch European, with Paul Dacre at the Daily Mail. Over time, the public were fed a diet of deception, culminating in the lies of the Brexit .. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/case-for-brexit-built-on-lies-five-years-later-deceit-is-routine-in-our-politics .. campaign itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/10/rupert-murdoch-press-brexit-eu

You're right. It is hard to grasp for me too. Moonves was the most honest the media's part in it:
Two American Dreams: how a dumbed-down nation lost sight of a great idea
[...]Leslie Moonves, the chief executive of CBS and a man whose 2015 compensation totaled $56.8m, had this to say about the Trump campaign.“It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS. The money’s rolling in and this is fun … this [is] going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But bring it on, Donald. Keep going.”
[...]
The psychology of punishment is key to why people vote against their own interests, says an Oxford neuroscientist
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There are many reasons why people vote against their own interests. One is that they are too busy trying to survive to study all the issues involved. Another is they believe lies and misinformation by people who don't care. Some see another is the desire to punish:
P - The psychology of punishment is key to why people vote against their own interests, says an Oxford neuroscientist
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Crockett studies the psychology of punishment and has found that, rather than accept what they see as an unfair scenario, people will often choose to punish others—even at a personal cost to themselves. This desire to punish, she believes, can motivate those who feel they’re getting a bad deal to vote against the political establishment, regardless of whether the alternative is truly a better option.
[...]
Crockett sees the popular support for Trump and Brexit as real-world examples of the punishing behavior she observes in the lab. “Some of the expressed sentiments of voters in both the [Brexit] referendum and the US election did suggest there was a motivation to punish there,” she says. “That’s certainly not going to be the case for all voters, but quotations that I’ve read from some are consistent with the things people say in our experiments, when they’re treated unfairly and they prefer to punish rather than be at the end of a bad deal.”
Revenge and punishment can be addictive
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She also found that .. https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/publications/505751 .. people often justify their actions by saying they were trying to teach a moral lesson, rather than because the act of punishing feels good. (This remains true even when a punishment is carried out in secret, and the recipient will never know of their punishment to absorb its lesson.) In retrospect, we tend to assign a moral motive to actions that are essentially vengeance.
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