Hong Kong's politics have been turbulent recently, and the British political arena, thousands of miles away, is also in a state of turmoil.

Thatcher began to aggressively implement the poll tax bill at the beginning of the year, triggering massive protests and riots across the United Kingdom, causing the ruling party, the British Conservative Party, to plummet. Its strong resistance to European integration has sparked a huge split within the Conservative Party.

Not long ago, on November 1, Sir Jeffrey Howe, the deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, the deputy leader of the Conservative Party, and the most senior member of Thatcher's cabinet, suddenly announced his resignation, which means that the internal contradictions within the Conservative Party have begun to become public.

Subsequently, another opponent of Thatcher, backbencher and former defense secretary Michael Hesseltin, directly stood up to challenge Margaret Thatcher's position as party leader. As a result, Thatcher was forced to announce a general election for the party leader to reassert her authority in the party.

But what Thatcher never expected was that not only did she fail to win the party's first-round primary, but even her cabinet members advised her to quit in a hurry. In order to avoid the embarrassment of losing the second round of the party election, Thatcher had to announce her resignation as British prime minister.

The United Kingdom implements a responsible cabinet system, in which the party that wins the most seats in each national election forms a government and governs, and the party leader is generally the prime minister. And if the internal struggle of the ruling party is fierce, the people who eat melons may see the spectacle of the prime minister watching the lights and constantly changing people.

For example, a certain friendly country with China is also a responsible cabinet system, so there has been an interesting situation of changing eight prime ministers in eight years. Voters who don't care much about politics may not even remember the name of the previous prime minister, and the new prime minister has already come to power!

Although Thatcher resigned as British prime minister, she was succeeded by John Major, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer whom she named! After a series of inhumane compromises within the Conservative Party, a reluctance to reach an agreement.

As a British colony, Hong Kong is far from the British mainland, but it will still inevitably be affected by the aftermath of the shock in the British political arena. For example, a name that Li Xuan didn't like once again entered his eyes!

Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, caused chaos in Hong Kong politics during the transition period in the last few years before the handover. After the change of British prime minister, he was appointed chairman of the Conservative Party by the new prime minister, John Major, and became the third most important person in the party after the party leader and deputy leader. According to the information obtained by Li Xuan, Patten is not only a political ally of the new prime minister, but also has a very good personal relationship between the two.

The crucial reason for the position of party chairman is that he is responsible for coordinating the election of the whole party. And now there is only a year and a half left before the new round of national elections in the United Kingdom in '92. John Major made Chris Patten chairman of the Conservative Party at this time, which is to prepare for the other party to help him in the next general election, which shows his trust in Patten.

Regarding Patten's new position, Li Xuan is actually a little puzzling. You must know that as long as the Conservative Party can win the 92 general election, Patten will definitely be John Major's number one hero. In order to raise merit, coupled with the fact that the two have a very close personal relationship, Patten should be able to choose a cabinet position at will, how could he go to Hong Kong to be the governor in another time and space?

That's right, the Governor of Hong Kong is indeed a high authority, under one person and above ten thousand. But after all, it is far from the political center of London, and for ambitious politicians, coming to Hong Kong is tantamount to exile in disguise. Because Hong Kong can only be regarded as a partial interest of the United Kingdom, not its core interest!

Based on the relationship between Major and Patten, if Patten stays in the cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer or Home Secretary, Major is even likely to train him as the next leader of the Conservative Party. As a result, Patten made a stupid choice that, in Li Xuan's opinion, picked up the sesame seeds but lost the watermelon.

Could it be that Patten is willing to joke about his own political future in order to make China unhappy? He has no blood feud with China, so is it that the net is broken?

The only possible explanation is that Patten Con suffered a serious setback in his career and had no face to stay in London's political arena anymore, so he retreated to the second best thing and avoided Hong Kong in pursuit of a comeback! And Hong Kong, which is in a special period of history, happened to give him the conditions to stir up the storm and attract the attention of all sides! He then pushed the boat down the river and re-established himself as a hawk by forcing the Chinese government to accumulate capital for his return to London's political arena!

Therefore, if Patten really becomes the last governor of Hong Kong, he will definitely become an annoying-stirring stick when he comes to Hong Kong, which is not the result that Li Xuan wants to see. Fortunately, this round of prime minister change in the UK has allowed Li Xuan to see some room for manipulation!

The new prime minister, John Major, has far less political credentials than his predecessor Margaret Thatcher, who was Secretary of State for Education and Science in the Heath cabinet in 1970. Subsequently, the Conservative Party lost the right to form a government because of its defeat in the general election. Thatcher simply came out to challenge Heath and successfully defeated the other party to become the new party leader.

Later, after four years as leader of the opposition, Thatcher successfully led the Conservative Party back to power in the 1979 British general election. She herself became Britain's first-ever female prime minister, and she remained prime minister for the next 11 years.

If Thatcher was still the British Prime Minister, Li Xuan would really not dare to act too rashly, because the skills of such a senior boss are sometimes unfathomable. But John Major was different, he was just a junior party leader. It was not until 1987 that he was promoted to the cabinet for the first time by Thatcher as secretary general of the Ministry of Finance. It wasn't until July last year that Thatcher took advantage of the sudden formation of a cabinet to demote his number one opponent in the cabinet, Foreign Secretary Sir Jeffrey Howe, to deputy prime minister. Major succeeded him as foreign secretary and finally had a greater say in the cabinet.

Less than three months after May's tenure as foreign secretary, Lawson, the former chancellor of the exchequer, resigned, and he was promoted to finance minister by Thatcher. As a result, he sat in the position of finance minister for less than a year, and even Thatcher, the prime minister, resigned.

The backstage has fallen, and it is time for Major to come to an end on his path to rocket promotion. But what people didn't expect was that the Iron Lady simply relied on her prestige in the party this time to directly push him to the throne of British Prime Minister.

But the British prime minister is not so easy to be, especially when Major himself lacks prestige and the party is full of contradictions. Unless he can lead the Conservative Party to a landslide victory over Labour in the '92 general election, it will be difficult for Major to establish his authority within the party in the short term, and he will only be a weak party leader and prime minister.

And because of Thatcher's series of policies in the past two years, the Conservative Party has lost the hearts and minds of the British people, and if it is not good, it will be ousted by the Labour Party in the next election, and it will not be easy to win a landslide victory!

Therefore, John Major will face the next situation, which can be described as internal and external troubles, in addition to facing pressure from the Labour Party, but also being constrained by the opposition within the party. But this is undoubtedly the best situation for Li Xuan, because only by sending charcoal in the snow can he maximize his interests.

You must know that Li Xuan is not only a super financier in the US election, but also spends a lot of money in every UK election!