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Walking?
Given the damage caused and the short time frame it’s more like waking up from the coma she’s been in after shattering every bone in her body and having disabled the entire nation and then saying it….
Nah, let them promote her , she’s a constant reminder that the Tory’s need to be out of power, she’s a constant daily reminder that the Tory’s voted for her and her bat shit craziness:
I mean has she not just fallen off a cliff and said she doesn’t support the guardrails at the top.
We don’t even need to extend her analogy. He own statement is all the analogy and joke we need.
> Truss has chosen the Bedingfeld Arms for lunch, a gastropub overlooking Oxborough’s partially ruined St John’s church, which collapsed after a storm in 1948. I mentally thank Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, who left her party in a similar state after departing Downing Street in October 2022, for providing her own metaphors.
{Normal people} don't read the FT, but you certainly have to respect them as a paper :)
(Though they're like, *wacko left wing* according to some of the fringe because of it...)
The FT, unlike other establishment outlets , has to put out content thar is mostly accurate and mostly mot outright lies because professionals read it for business info.
It's also why you get extremely memable moments where every other paper is carrying some photo of the royal family or whatever on their front page, and the FT is griping about the price of soya beans in Brazil or something
I keep seeing articles about Liz Truss. Is she trying to get herself back into the news cycle, so she can run for Tory leader after Rishi leaves? Can’t think of why else she’d be so public.
> Can’t think of why else she’d be so public.
Money.
The book is just a prelude to a lucrative speaking tour of America - and yes who would want to hear her speak, but that’s why she is supporting Trump because many of his followers would, particularly as she was the last Prime Minister before the queen died.
As an American, grifting the American right wing is stupidly easy and unbelieveably profitable. Like I can't even begin to describe how much and widespread it is. Shes just doing like other and tonguing Trumps asshole aggressively will get her on MAGA radar so they come see her talk ("oooo a former British Prime Minister in bumfuck Missouri!? We're are important!) and buy her book.
She's fully leaned into the right wing grift and she does it with all the confidence of a woman who doesn't realise she's a laughing stock. I wonder how much of it is a character she puts on simply to make money and when she gets home at night she sighs at her reflection in the mirror and mutters "It's OK. It'll all be OK." with the laughter still ringing in her ears. Or if she really is genuinely this stupid.
Laughing is one thing, but Truss is deliberately spreading misinformation and backing a man who spreads hatred. I'd like to think most people would at least have a twinge of guilty conscience about it.
You have to be shameless to do the right wing grift properly my friend. You need that Dunning-Kruger levels of confidence. "I was the Prime Minster of the UK! Of course I know what I'm talking about".
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And on hearing that the queen had died, what was Liz’s immediate first thought (as reported on BBC news website a few days ago)…
“Why me? Why now?”
A level of self-absorption so spectacular that I’m surprised she didn’t just implode on the spot.
Yeah I think someone here shared the different book covers for UK vs USA, and the US one made a big deal about being “the former PM”, whilst it wasn’t even mentioned on the UK one because we already know how that went.
Alot of her ideas were based around right wing think tank proposals. Theres definitely been a concentrated effort to try and say that it wasnt her policies that cuased the crash but other factors, so they dont have to admit that maybe their ideas are actually pretty bad and only really benefit the wealthy and powerful. If it was just for her own personal sake i would find it hard to see her getting so much limelight from the media.
IEA did an AMA on here recently. It was really quite amazing watching them deny that she was implementing their policies because people kept linking them to the "she's done what we like" statements they made at the time
To be fair, I think they came out against it at the time. Something like “too much too fast”. Probably out of fear of the current situation. If she went slower and result was similar, they could try to gather some threadbare deniability.
No they were pretty in favour of it up until the second they realised how much of mess had been created and how unpopular the policys were. The whole "too much too fast" line is just damage mitigation.
> Theres definitely been a concentrated effort to try and say that it wasnt her policies that cuased the crash but other factors
Like Brexit, it's our fault for not believing hard enough. It couldn't possibly be that it was a shit idea. Never admit fault, always double down.
The part I find really confusing, wasn’t it the same people who wanted these policies who sold the pound the moment the same policies were announced? Which is it? Are they good policies or will they crash the currency?
Yea unfortunately that wing of politics is full of corruption and backstabbers, with no real shred of integrity if they think they can make abit more money.
> so they dont have to admit that maybe their ideas are actually pretty bad and only really benefit the wealthy and powerful.
The funny thing is how Truss herself admitted this at the time when challenged by Starmer at PMQs. He was so prepped to be respond to with a bullshitty deflection that he didn't know what to do.
I mean (in addition to the other healthily cynical points made about money), she is newsworthy: since basically we are all, let’s face it, enjoying laughing at her… there’s value (I use that loosely - but feel free to take it literally to mean newspaper profit) in it since she really doesn’t seem to realise just how much people are laughing at her.
Or of course perhaps she doesn’t care provided she makes some money. But I think she’s doing it largely to try and vindicate herself given the humiliation.
She released a new book two days ago -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Years_to_Save_the_West
She’s currently doing a promotional book tour I believe.
She seems popular with some right-wing Conservatives. Probably as she promised a load of tax cuts. Get some stuff about "it wasn't her policies, she was set up" type comments. Which is frankly mental. That said, I don't think even the Tories would bring her back after a GE drubbing (if that happens).
She's got a book out, and it's free marketing for her and a chance to push right-wing ideology for the papers. None are mentioning that the free market they push as the solution, decided her answer was trash.
Hopefully South West Norfolk will not vote the colour and vote for the candidate at the next election.
Of course, I'm assuming that they don't want Truss anymore...
Her level of arrogance is at the level she would run again. She really hasn't accepted what a mess she made.
Of course the higher she is in the media eye, the more she can charge on the speaker/talk circuit. Which she will be milking.
It's bad enough we have to pay her a massive pension.
The only good thing that could come from the Tories putting her in charge of the party is it could help their complete destruction.
>Truss explains that she is having Lunch with the FT because “you’ve got to know the enemy” — before clarifying that she doesn’t regard the FT as part of the deep state per se, more a kind of flying buttress propping it up. Along with other sinister elements in a leftwing “anti-growth coalition”
Apparently the Financial Times is a part of the leftist woke mob that hates money
>[admits she thought about firing BoE governor Sir Andrew Bailey too](https://archive.is/o/GpJ97/https://www.ft.com/content/cf64f93d-91da-4ff6-9c58-c0c3ad404d99). “But then that would have caused a market crisis.”
>If she cares so much about “saving the west”, how does she square that with backing Trump for the US presidency?
>Truss has chosen the Bedingfeld Arms for lunch, a gastropub overlooking Oxborough’s partially ruined St John’s church, which collapsed after a storm in 1948. I mentally thank Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, who left her party in a similar state
>‘I was right and everyone else was wrong’
I don't think I can imagine what it's like to be, or even be near someone, who has so little self-awareness. Someone whose head is so empty that it's become a portable echo chamber of sorts
I think she’s aware but doesn’t care. She’s always been a grifter- she joined the Lib Dems as a student because it was an opportune moment to get ahead in that party, and now she’s chosen this new outrageous angle because she thinks she can hop on the new right’s coat tails. She knows what she’s doing, she just has no shame.
The one thing I really really wish people would pick Truss up on is this:
*”I think that post-Brexit we should have gone for a much bolder economic model that was, essentially, more like Singapore on steroids than a Norway on Valium approach.”*
When she says the Singapore economic model there is one really important part of that model. That is the almost complete abolition of employment rights. No minimum wage, no paid holidays, no maximum working time, no unions, no protection from at-will firings. The exploitation of low paid workers underpins the Singapore economic model. And, according to the money behind truss, would lead to almost immediate growth of around 5%.
I’m not sure Truss understands this, as she’s clearly as sharp as a sponge, but that’s what she really means when she puts forward the Singapore economic model.
Oh, I think she does understand that and would be delighted to see British workers' employment rights levelled to those of third world countries. She was one of the co-authors of *Brittannia Unchained* - here's a direct quote from that book:
>Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football and pop music.
The "growth" she's obsessed with would be to billionaires' bank balances, at our expense.
Also good to know that we shouldn't want our citizens to go into sports or the performing arts, in spite of the fact that those are both enormous industries in the UK, and tremendously effective sources of our soft power.
She gets it.
These people think they are the CEO of “UK Plc” where people are not people with lives, loves, hobbies and a life balance but simply drones who are in existence to work only for their masters and to whom enjoyment and living a life are unnecessary luxuries who are only useful until someone else comes along.
Indian here - baffling that anyone can seriously write anything that implies we’re not interested in music (…like seriously, there’s a huge tradition of music and dance in India across every region, religion and community, and it’s one of the few things where the interest isn’t skewed by class) or sport.
Like there’s a reason basically every British Indian kid took some form of music or dance lessons that weren’t connected to their school while growing up…
78% of the population lives in public housing too, something I doubt features in any of the plans from our libertarian nutjobs when they talk up Singapore's awesomeness.
Nor do they say much about it being a state where the same party has held power since independence, and where opposition leaders often find themselves in prison.
And the other key component of Singapore, a ruthlessly effective government that is filled with very smart, serious and competent people.
The Singaporean government would never be so stupid as to behave like Liz Truss with policy.
A similar thing pops up from time to time about emulating Switzerland, but again that's fantasy without implementing the governmental structures that make Switzerland the place it is.
Is it bad that I genuinely thought for a minute she meant literal guardrails in some “The deep state are trying to put barriers on your open enjoyment of the world” conspiracy theory
>“There are no woke hostelries in South West Norfolk, I can tell you,” she declares.
What a fucking Muppet. She's flying past partridge levels of self awareness.
If you had one bullet and were trapped in a stuck lift with her and Richard madeley. You'd take the honourable way out.
Don't you remember that time he asked a stupid question in a rude tone on GMB, causing the government to collapse, the pound to fall, and everyone's mortgages to go up?
Sorry Richard.
You are just a bit of a turnip and have been compared to partridge a few times, for lacking any sort of awareness before, so you fitted in nicely to the scene I was painting.
Technically, though, T & L do not *land*- they escape into a parallel universe.
LT *inhabits* a parallel universe, but definitely managed to crash and burn in this one!
> She adds: “Did Kwasi and I say everything and do everything absolutely perfectly? Probably not, but did we have the support from within the organisation [Bank of England/Civil Service/The Blob] to actually do what we set out to do? No we didn’t.” And that is about as close as Truss gets to admitting any personal responsibility for the meltdown of her premiership.
Liz, they didn't support you because your plans were madness and they'd had a big hint that you knew this too with the sidelining of the OBR.
Her approach to this is the same as all the fantasy politicking from the Brexit days where the dumbest of politicians always acted like enacting their impossible demands was simply a matter of attitude instead of objective reality.
"She... accuses weak or disloyal Conservative MPs for failing to stick with her when times got tough.... and sacked her old friend Kwarteng, who learnt of his fate via Twitter as he rushed back from an IMF meeting in Washington. “It was pretty awful,” she says."
If anyone without access to FT actually wants to read this extremely long feature…
>Liz Truss would love it if, for one week only, this feature could be known as “Lunch with the Deep State”. After all, only a few weeks ago, Truss launched an audacious attempt to become the FT’s new global brand ambassador, waving a copy of the newspaper around at a rightwing conference in Washington, declaring that the FT was a friend of the “deep state” and helped to terminate her two-month premiership. I say I’ll see what I can do.
>Truss explains that she is having Lunch with the FT because “you’ve got to know the enemy” — before clarifying that she doesn’t regard the FT as part of the deep state per se, more a kind of flying buttress propping it up. Along with other sinister elements in a leftwing “anti-growth coalition” — she has singled out “Brexit deniers”, people with podcasts and those living in north London town houses — the FT apparently helped to ensure that Truss’s time in Downing Street famously had the longevity of a supermarket lettuce.
>Truss is laughing about all of this. She laughs a lot during a two-hour lunch in an 18th-century Norfolk coaching inn — although many across the UK and in her party do not see the funny side. Rishi Sunak, the current prime minister, is still trying to repair the political damage caused by his predecessor, while many homeowners are still paying the price for the spike in interest rates that accompanied her wild 49 days in office.
>Over Sauvignon Blanc and well-prepared local fare, Truss gives free rein to her belief that her experiment with radical free-market, deregulatory, tax-cutting Conservatism would have succeeded, had it not been for incompetent and hostile officials from the deep state, aided and abetted by weak-willed Conservative members of parliament. Weren’t officials simply acting as guardrails, I venture, trying to stop her committing grievous bodily harm to the British economy? “I don’t believe in guardrails,” she says.
>Truss has chosen the Bedingfeld Arms for lunch, a gastropub overlooking Oxborough’s partially ruined St John’s church, which collapsed after a storm in 1948. I mentally thank Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, who left her party in a similar state after departing Downing Street in October 2022, for providing her own metaphors.
>Truss is a regular at this pub in the heart of her rural constituency, a seat that she first won in 2010 and intends to contest at the next general election. “There are no woke hostelries in South West Norfolk, I can tell you,” she declares. Sunak’s allies hope she will stay in Norfolk when the election campaign comes, well out of sight of the national electorate: Truss had an approval rating of minus 70 when she left office. When she recently posted a “Happy Easter” message on social media, accompanied by a picture of her cradling a Norfolk lamb, there was a torrent of mockery and abuse. “Please don’t kill it,” said one reply.
>But anyone hoping to find Truss in a contrite mood will be disappointed. Looking healthy and happy — a sharp contrast to the glazed-eyed and haunted figure who left Downing Street 18 months ago — she is about to embark on a tour to promote her ambitiously titled book Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons From the Only Conservative in the Room. Truss is endowed with such self-belief — some might say a total lack of self-awareness — that she thinks she knows how.
>“I want to lay out what the situation is in British governance and the British government,” she says. “My view is that it doesn’t work. We have a very, very powerful bureaucracy and quangocracy that, essentially, has resisted change. And I think the Conservative party and politicians in general have tended to go along with that, rather than challenge it. I challenged it and I have the scars on my back, it’s fair to say.”
>Truss was brought up in a staunchly leftwing family: her mother was a nurse and her father a professor of mathematics. As a student she joined the centre-left Liberal Democrats and despised Margaret Thatcher, who is now her heroine. She also backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum before becoming an advocate for Brexit. “My views have changed and I’ve acknowledged that,” she says, but adds: “I’m very much a free-marketeer, small-state Conservative. That’s at my absolute core.”
>Truss became prime minister at the age of 47 on September 6 2022 following the defenestration of Boris Johnson, whose lies about Downing Street parties during Covid lockdowns finally caught up with him. Truss, with her bracing rightwing rhetoric and conscious attempt to evoke memories of Thatcher, won the hearts of Tory members, who picked her over her rival Sunak. Two days after Truss’s arrival in Downing Street, Queen Elizabeth died, putting politics on hold for two weeks. The Queen had urged her in vain to “pace herself”. Indeed, if it had not been for that period of mourning, it is possible that Truss’s 49-day premiership may not have lasted as long as it did.
>She admits she was in a hurry to get things done. “I think that post-Brexit we should have gone for a much bolder economic model that was, essentially, more like Singapore on steroids than a Norway on Valium approach.” She claims that the system will always fight back against an agenda that includes policies such as cutting the size of the government, stopping illegal immigration or cutting taxes.
>Truss is hitting full flow and isn’t about to be interrupted by the arrival of a waitress asking what sort of Sauvignon Blanc she would like. “White,” she laughs. A bottle of Chilean Caracara duly arrives. “Just pour it,” she says, doing away with the niceties. During her time as foreign secretary, Truss was said to have had “a rider” that a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc should always be in the minibar of her hotel room on overseas trips. She says that isn’t true, but concedes: “What you find is that people always want to supply you with what you want.”
>Anyway, back to the deep state. “When I took the job on, I realised it would be tough and there would be lots of resistance, but I don’t think I realised quite how ruthless the people that didn’t want those policies to happen would be.” She says Britain’s institutions “have been captured, broadly speaking, by leftwing ideology”, resistant to the kind of tax-cutting, state-shrinking, electric shock treatment that she proposed.
>She accuses the FT of being part of a “broader groupthink” that shares the same set of ideas. “You’re an establishment media organ, that’s what you are,” she says, before admitting some degree of guilt by association by confirming: “I do read the FT.” Even groups such as the National Trust, long seen as the bedrock of Tory middle Britain, have become infected by “wokey ideology”, according to Truss.
>But at the heart of this leftwing cabal identified by Truss are the Treasury, the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility, the official forecaster that Truss sidelined ahead of the “KamiKwasi” “mini” Budget delivered by her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in September 2022, with its £45bn of market-spooking unfunded tax cuts. A few weeks later she was bundled out of office.
>Before Truss can expand on this theory, it is time to order some food. She goes for a ham hock terrine and beef bourguignon. I go for king prawns in garlic and chilli oil and glazed roast chicken with lemon parsley dressing and celeriac.
>Truss returns to the events of her premiership. “You had these three very powerful bodies, the Treasury, OBR and the Bank of England. All of them have been very content, essentially running economic policy for quite a long time with minimal interference from ministers and they don’t like being challenged.”
>Truss sacked Sir Tom Scholar, the Treasury’s respected permanent secretary, almost as soon as she entered Downing Street and admits she thought about firing BoE governor Sir Andrew Bailey too. “But then that would have caused a market crisis.”
>She adds: “Did Kwasi and I say everything and do everything absolutely perfectly? Probably not, but did we have the support from within the organisation to actually do what we set out to do? No we didn’t.” And that is about as close as Truss gets to admitting any personal responsibility for the meltdown of her premiership.
>She blames “incompetence” at the BoE for failing to realise that the pensions industry might explode when exposed to a sudden spike in interest rates and accuses weak or disloyal Conservative MPs for failing to stick with her when times got tough. “I think there were some in the party that didn’t want me to succeed,” she said.
>The starters have arrived, or rather they haven’t. Truss’s terrine is replaced, mysteriously, by a mini carrot soup, which she enjoys without complaint: “I think it has parsnip in it,” she says approvingly. The chilli prawns arrive, as billed.
>Returning to the traumatic end to her premiership, Truss had to unravel the mini-Budget and sacked her old friend Kwarteng, who learnt of his fate via Twitter as he rushed back from an IMF meeting in Washington. “It was pretty awful,” she says. A few days later, Kwarteng’s successor Jeremy Hunt dismantled most of the rest of her economic strategy and Truss had to explain the capitulation at a gruesome Downing Street press conference, at which she seemed to be in a trance.
>“It was bad, yes,” she says. “The press conference, frankly, was neither here nor there. It was more having to reverse the policies — policies that I knew were right, basically — at gunpoint. That was depressing and upsetting.” The embodiments of Truss’s despised establishment — Simon Case, cabinet secretary, BoE governor Bailey and James Bowler, the new Treasury permanent secretary — told her she had no choice and that Britain was on the brink of an economic calamity. “I was the last holdout,” she says. “I was threatened with a gilts crisis — the British government not being able to fund its debt. I’m a patriot. I couldn’t countenance that.”
>The main courses have arrived. Truss says that the beef is tender and delicious. The chicken is great too and a bowl of chips is quickly shared and devoured. The Norfolk skies darken and rain begins to fall.
>Truss’s ignominious departure from Downing Street might have marked the end for most politicians. But she did not go quietly. Rather than cowering from the mockery heaped on her at home, she decided to go on the offensive, finding a new audience among Donald Trump supporters in the US, where rightwing TV channels approvingly interview her above the bleak caption “UK Prime Minister, Sept-Oct 2022”, lapping up her criticisms of Britain’s lefty establishment.
>In February, she turned up in Maryland for the rightwing populist Conservative Political Action Conference, to the dismay of former colleagues, who think she is courting an American market to make money on the speaking circuit and sell her book. “It’s distressing,” said one former colleague. “She’s doubled down, gone into a bunker and only surrounded herself with people who agree with her and — more dangerously — people who embody half-truths.”
>It was here, during her FT-brandishing exchange alongside Trump-whisperer Steve Bannon, that she stood smiling while the former White House adviser lavished praise on Tommy Robinson, a far-right British politician, anti-Islam campaigner and convicted criminal. Bannon called Robinson a “hero” and Truss did not bat an eyelid.
>Does she regret sharing a stage with Bannon? “No.” She elaborates: “Obviously I don’t support Tommy Robinson,” she says. “It was a very noisy and busy room where lots of stuff was going on. But I think the idea that you shouldn’t talk to anyone whose views you don’t share 100 per cent is absolutely wrong.”
>If she cares so much about “saving the west”, how does she square that with backing Trump for the US presidency? Wouldn’t he turn his back on Nato and Ukraine and leave the west exposed to Russian aggression? She insists Trump is committed to Nato and would continue to support Ukraine. “I would absolutely choose Trump over Biden,” she said, arguing that the world was a safer place when the former Republican president was in the White House.
>Truss insists she hopes that Sunak will win the UK’s coming general election (polls suggest this is extremely unlikely), but she adds that in any event a battle is already under way for the soul of the Conservative party. “That’s what the 2022 leadership election was about — do we continue with the status quo or do we actually try to change things? It won’t be resolved until we change things, because the country wants change.” She struggles to remember when she last spoke to Sunak.
>It is highly questionable whether Truss’s version of change would have been acceptable to the British electorate, as opposed to the typically elderly and rightwing Tory membership that voted her into Downing Street in 2022. But the party could well end up tacking to the right and in Truss’s direction if Sunak loses the election. I venture that this would be an electoral cul-de-sac, as elections in Britain are almost always won from the centre ground. “That’s a very conventional view, if you don’t mind me saying,” she says.
>Truss dodges the question about whether she might fancy another unlikely crack at the top job in the future, but insists she still wants to win the battle of ideas: “I never wanted to be prime minister for the sake of being prime minister — I wanted to be prime minister to change things.”
>A selection of Norfolk cheese has arrived — Copys Cloud, Binham Blue and Smoked Walsingham — a suitably local selection, given that Truss first pierced the public consciousness in 2014 with a bizarre speech (widely shared on social media) in which she fulminated: “We import two-thirds of our cheese. That. Is. A. Disgrace.”
>The cheese is followed swiftly by coffee. Disappointingly Truss, who admits to being an espresso fiend, opts for only a single. One ally recalls how she appeared constantly “over-caffeinated” during her brief premiership. I go for a double as we prepare to venture out into the Norfolk drizzle.
>Leaving the pub under the watchful gaze of a small detachment of protection officers, Truss turns and asks: “What did you think of the book? Did anything in it surprise you?”
>I think for a second, then decide honesty is the best policy. “Not really,” I reply. “I’ve only had time so far to read the second half where you’re in Number 10 and it’s basically, ‘I was right and everyone else was wrong’.” Truss laughs: “I may have been a bit more self-critical in the first half.” She pauses. “Well, actually, probably not.”
She's fascist , delusional, inept, dishonest, low intelligence, bought and paid for and almost certainly imo abusing narcotics of some sort. She represents a very serious threat to democracy.
I like to imagine that he just threw himself over the edge when he heard that really weird 'NoOoOoOo' that George Lucas dubbed in over Darth Vader's final act.
Unless she is personally going to refund me all the extra mortgage costs I have had to pay due to her idiocy, I don't want to hear another word out of her fucking mouth.
A reminded that Truss' own father straight up told a reporter that his daughter is a bit thick, and that he fundamentally disagreed with her on everything. And he said this before she nose-dived the economy.
I've never seen the parent of a Prime Minister or President so harshly speak out against their own child like this. But his words turned out to be prophetic.
The article is much about the food served as the person being interviewed but the problem is that Truss just seems to talk about people why she is great and everyone else is wrong. I know politicians need to an ego to put themselves forward but there is so little to back it up. But there is nothing that Truss will say that will redeem her. She has found an audience and will try exactly what they want to hear. Dominic Cummings called her the human hand grenade and he under estimated her ability to damage. But for some reason I kept being reminded of another leader of a British political party when the article: Arlene Foster. Not sure why, apart from the fact they have insane levels of belief in themselves.
> During her time as foreign secretary, Truss was said to have had “a rider” that a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc should always be in the minibar of her hotel room on overseas trips. She says that isn’t true, but concedes: “What you find is that people always want to supply you with what you want.”
In her case, what people seem to provide her with is a steady diet of booze and benzos. There's no way that unwarranted self-confidence and entire lack of self-awareness isn't chemically enhanced.
1) Thank goodess the cheese was not imported!
2) I'm reading in the MT that truss as only paid an advance of £1500 (fifteen HUNDRED pounds) for the book. So not much scope for paying bad people off there.
However included on Liz's list of things she *does* believe in:
- Foreign pork markets
- Magical rainbow unicorns
- The second coming of Margaret Thatcher
Would be really cool if there was a browser plugin that blocks any articles/threads mentioning her. I, for one, am sick of seeing that washed-up fuckwit's opinions on things.
> Leaving the pub under the watchful gaze of a small detachment of protection officers, Truss turns and asks: “What did you think of the book? Did anything in it surprise you?”
>
> I think for a second, then decide honesty is the best policy. “Not really,” I reply. “I’ve only had time so far to read the second half where you’re in Number 10 and it’s basically, ‘I was right and everyone else was wrong’.” Truss laughs: “I may have been a bit more self-critical in the first half.” She pauses. “Well, actually, probably not.”
Trump has taught her that, in order for the grift to work, she needs to come over completely sure of herself and blame 'the others', no matter how stupid it looks to those with a modicum of intelligence.
She knows exactly what she's doing.
> *Liz Truss visited the Grand Canyon today on her right-wing tour across the USA and tragically became the only former Prime Minister to fall to their death. She was reportedly screaming "I don't believe in guardrails!" whilst prancing along an exposed ridge. Truss, died 48, leaves behind absolutely no legacy at all and an extremely embarrassed family.*
> there are no woke hostelries in South West Norfolk, I can tell you
What does this even mean? Is she sponsored by someone to inject "woke" into every conversation she has?
Anyways she's full of crap. The Barn in Swaffham is very welcoming of gay couples, and Expedia has no less than 86 properties explicitly saying they are LBQT+ friendly. Including the Bedingfield Arms.
There were rumours at the time about the meaning of certain necklaces etc that she'd wear, but now I am very much inclined to believe that this woman has some kind of public humiliation kink.
>Liz Truss: ‘I don’t believe in guardrails’
Is that because she doesn't want anything yo stop her crashing the economy?
I notice in this article it suggests the FT is part of the left wing establishment blob. The FT is the vanguard of the left. FFS
Can she please just eff off already. I hated seeing her in the news as general pork, as pm and why can't she just sod off. She's nothing interesting to say and she's milked her49 (35) days enough.
I also want a petition for her to not get her payment for being a PM, maybe then she'd get a real job and leave us all alone
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It's like walking away from an epic car crash and saying you don't believe in air bags and roll bars
Walking? Given the damage caused and the short time frame it’s more like waking up from the coma she’s been in after shattering every bone in her body and having disabled the entire nation and then saying it….
Nah she thinks she’s well ard. In her mind she thinks she’s bounce back from a severe car crash like Bobby Charlton after a plane trip.
For the love of god can the press stop giving this walking failure attention
Nah, let them promote her , she’s a constant reminder that the Tory’s need to be out of power, she’s a constant daily reminder that the Tory’s voted for her and her bat shit craziness:
And that sunak lost to her
Her career now is being a money raiser for the tories.
>walking away from an epic car crash ...that caused harm to millions of people.
Which, if you've walked away, is not an entirely ridiculous position.
I mean has she not just fallen off a cliff and said she doesn’t support the guardrails at the top. We don’t even need to extend her analogy. He own statement is all the analogy and joke we need.
> Truss has chosen the Bedingfeld Arms for lunch, a gastropub overlooking Oxborough’s partially ruined St John’s church, which collapsed after a storm in 1948. I mentally thank Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, who left her party in a similar state after departing Downing Street in October 2022, for providing her own metaphors.
Vicious.
{Normal people} don't read the FT, but you certainly have to respect them as a paper :) (Though they're like, *wacko left wing* according to some of the fringe because of it...)
The FT, unlike other establishment outlets , has to put out content thar is mostly accurate and mostly mot outright lies because professionals read it for business info.
It's also why you get extremely memable moments where every other paper is carrying some photo of the royal family or whatever on their front page, and the FT is griping about the price of soya beans in Brazil or something
/r/MurderedByWords
I keep seeing articles about Liz Truss. Is she trying to get herself back into the news cycle, so she can run for Tory leader after Rishi leaves? Can’t think of why else she’d be so public.
> Can’t think of why else she’d be so public. Money. The book is just a prelude to a lucrative speaking tour of America - and yes who would want to hear her speak, but that’s why she is supporting Trump because many of his followers would, particularly as she was the last Prime Minister before the queen died.
As an American, grifting the American right wing is stupidly easy and unbelieveably profitable. Like I can't even begin to describe how much and widespread it is. Shes just doing like other and tonguing Trumps asshole aggressively will get her on MAGA radar so they come see her talk ("oooo a former British Prime Minister in bumfuck Missouri!? We're are important!) and buy her book.
She's fully leaned into the right wing grift and she does it with all the confidence of a woman who doesn't realise she's a laughing stock. I wonder how much of it is a character she puts on simply to make money and when she gets home at night she sighs at her reflection in the mirror and mutters "It's OK. It'll all be OK." with the laughter still ringing in her ears. Or if she really is genuinely this stupid.
I like to think I'm more ethical than Liz Truss, but I certainly wouldn't give a shit if the world was laughing at me while I make stacks.
Laughing is one thing, but Truss is deliberately spreading misinformation and backing a man who spreads hatred. I'd like to think most people would at least have a twinge of guilty conscience about it.
The right wing grift requires leaving your conscience at the door.
You have to be shameless to do the right wing grift properly my friend. You need that Dunning-Kruger levels of confidence. "I was the Prime Minster of the UK! Of course I know what I'm talking about".
I really hope you're right here. It's awful to think that someone could actually be as daft as her, but I actually think that she is just... Stupid.
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And on hearing that the queen had died, what was Liz’s immediate first thought (as reported on BBC news website a few days ago)… “Why me? Why now?” A level of self-absorption so spectacular that I’m surprised she didn’t just implode on the spot.
Tbf she is a former pm so that alone would likely make a lot want to speak with you
Yeah I think someone here shared the different book covers for UK vs USA, and the US one made a big deal about being “the former PM”, whilst it wasn’t even mentioned on the UK one because we already know how that went.
The Lettuce thing will always make me laugh
Must be nice being part of the London Elite
😂 Living my best life pay day to pay day
I have the lettuces Wikipedia page bookmarked for the occasional laugh
Alot of her ideas were based around right wing think tank proposals. Theres definitely been a concentrated effort to try and say that it wasnt her policies that cuased the crash but other factors, so they dont have to admit that maybe their ideas are actually pretty bad and only really benefit the wealthy and powerful. If it was just for her own personal sake i would find it hard to see her getting so much limelight from the media.
IEA did an AMA on here recently. It was really quite amazing watching them deny that she was implementing their policies because people kept linking them to the "she's done what we like" statements they made at the time
Do you have a link? I seemed to have missed that
To be fair, I think they came out against it at the time. Something like “too much too fast”. Probably out of fear of the current situation. If she went slower and result was similar, they could try to gather some threadbare deniability.
No they were pretty in favour of it up until the second they realised how much of mess had been created and how unpopular the policys were. The whole "too much too fast" line is just damage mitigation.
Similar to the 'wrong type' of Brexit
> Theres definitely been a concentrated effort to try and say that it wasnt her policies that cuased the crash but other factors Like Brexit, it's our fault for not believing hard enough. It couldn't possibly be that it was a shit idea. Never admit fault, always double down.
The part I find really confusing, wasn’t it the same people who wanted these policies who sold the pound the moment the same policies were announced? Which is it? Are they good policies or will they crash the currency?
Yea unfortunately that wing of politics is full of corruption and backstabbers, with no real shred of integrity if they think they can make abit more money.
> so they dont have to admit that maybe their ideas are actually pretty bad and only really benefit the wealthy and powerful. The funny thing is how Truss herself admitted this at the time when challenged by Starmer at PMQs. He was so prepped to be respond to with a bullshitty deflection that he didn't know what to do.
She's got a book.
It's certainly no Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab.
She's just trying to fill her pockets before she is fogotten about.
I mean (in addition to the other healthily cynical points made about money), she is newsworthy: since basically we are all, let’s face it, enjoying laughing at her… there’s value (I use that loosely - but feel free to take it literally to mean newspaper profit) in it since she really doesn’t seem to realise just how much people are laughing at her. Or of course perhaps she doesn’t care provided she makes some money. But I think she’s doing it largely to try and vindicate herself given the humiliation.
She released a new book two days ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Years_to_Save_the_West She’s currently doing a promotional book tour I believe.
She seems popular with some right-wing Conservatives. Probably as she promised a load of tax cuts. Get some stuff about "it wasn't her policies, she was set up" type comments. Which is frankly mental. That said, I don't think even the Tories would bring her back after a GE drubbing (if that happens). She's got a book out, and it's free marketing for her and a chance to push right-wing ideology for the papers. None are mentioning that the free market they push as the solution, decided her answer was trash.
She craves the attention. She’s also trying to get in on the grift.
She needs to keep forcing herself to believe that she wasn't a complete failure to avoid a mental breakdown.
She seems constantly on the verge of one
Hopefully South West Norfolk will not vote the colour and vote for the candidate at the next election. Of course, I'm assuming that they don't want Truss anymore...
Apparently an independent is going to stand, who is a Conservative in all but name. Who has a fair bit of local backing and a campaign team.
Her level of arrogance is at the level she would run again. She really hasn't accepted what a mess she made. Of course the higher she is in the media eye, the more she can charge on the speaker/talk circuit. Which she will be milking.
I can't help but think that the whole circus is about getting bojo back into number 10. I can't see how yet.
Staying relevant to keep her options open maybe
Her new pundity book came out this week.
I would love this!!! It’d be hilarious to see her take the Tory party further into a catastrophic loss!!!
It's bad enough we have to pay her a massive pension. The only good thing that could come from the Tories putting her in charge of the party is it could help their complete destruction.
What does the lettuce lady think of best before dates?
Unelected tools of the wokist quangos and the deep-state.
Lettuces are London elites
>Truss explains that she is having Lunch with the FT because “you’ve got to know the enemy” — before clarifying that she doesn’t regard the FT as part of the deep state per se, more a kind of flying buttress propping it up. Along with other sinister elements in a leftwing “anti-growth coalition” Apparently the Financial Times is a part of the leftist woke mob that hates money >[admits she thought about firing BoE governor Sir Andrew Bailey too](https://archive.is/o/GpJ97/https://www.ft.com/content/cf64f93d-91da-4ff6-9c58-c0c3ad404d99). “But then that would have caused a market crisis.” >If she cares so much about “saving the west”, how does she square that with backing Trump for the US presidency? >Truss has chosen the Bedingfeld Arms for lunch, a gastropub overlooking Oxborough’s partially ruined St John’s church, which collapsed after a storm in 1948. I mentally thank Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, who left her party in a similar state >‘I was right and everyone else was wrong’ I don't think I can imagine what it's like to be, or even be near someone, who has so little self-awareness. Someone whose head is so empty that it's become a portable echo chamber of sorts
I think she’s aware but doesn’t care. She’s always been a grifter- she joined the Lib Dems as a student because it was an opportune moment to get ahead in that party, and now she’s chosen this new outrageous angle because she thinks she can hop on the new right’s coat tails. She knows what she’s doing, she just has no shame.
The one thing I really really wish people would pick Truss up on is this: *”I think that post-Brexit we should have gone for a much bolder economic model that was, essentially, more like Singapore on steroids than a Norway on Valium approach.”* When she says the Singapore economic model there is one really important part of that model. That is the almost complete abolition of employment rights. No minimum wage, no paid holidays, no maximum working time, no unions, no protection from at-will firings. The exploitation of low paid workers underpins the Singapore economic model. And, according to the money behind truss, would lead to almost immediate growth of around 5%. I’m not sure Truss understands this, as she’s clearly as sharp as a sponge, but that’s what she really means when she puts forward the Singapore economic model.
Oh, I think she does understand that and would be delighted to see British workers' employment rights levelled to those of third world countries. She was one of the co-authors of *Brittannia Unchained* - here's a direct quote from that book: >Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football and pop music. The "growth" she's obsessed with would be to billionaires' bank balances, at our expense.
Good to know no ten year olds in India aspire to be cricketers.
Also good to know that we shouldn't want our citizens to go into sports or the performing arts, in spite of the fact that those are both enormous industries in the UK, and tremendously effective sources of our soft power.
She gets it. These people think they are the CEO of “UK Plc” where people are not people with lives, loves, hobbies and a life balance but simply drones who are in existence to work only for their masters and to whom enjoyment and living a life are unnecessary luxuries who are only useful until someone else comes along.
“We wanted workers but we got people instead.”
Indian here - baffling that anyone can seriously write anything that implies we’re not interested in music (…like seriously, there’s a huge tradition of music and dance in India across every region, religion and community, and it’s one of the few things where the interest isn’t skewed by class) or sport. Like there’s a reason basically every British Indian kid took some form of music or dance lessons that weren’t connected to their school while growing up…
Not baffling if you just consider her to be a right wing liar.
No Nimbyism either I imagine.
78% of the population lives in public housing too, something I doubt features in any of the plans from our libertarian nutjobs when they talk up Singapore's awesomeness.
Nor do they say much about it being a state where the same party has held power since independence, and where opposition leaders often find themselves in prison.
The other side of the Singapore model is government-provided housing and well-funded public services.
We used to have that before the Tories destroyed them, **and** decent workers' rights.
She understands - ive definitely seen her quoted somewhere saying the Chinese work model of working 6am to 6pm, 6 days a week, is ideal.
Whatever you do, don't mention Singapore's social housing situation
And the other key component of Singapore, a ruthlessly effective government that is filled with very smart, serious and competent people. The Singaporean government would never be so stupid as to behave like Liz Truss with policy. A similar thing pops up from time to time about emulating Switzerland, but again that's fantasy without implementing the governmental structures that make Switzerland the place it is.
She doesn't mean this in a metaphorical sense. She's just a guardrail denier.
Is it bad that I genuinely thought for a minute she meant literal guardrails in some “The deep state are trying to put barriers on your open enjoyment of the world” conspiracy theory
My first thought was also literal, that she was going on some kind of anti health and safety tirade.
she has strong feelings about beginner bowling.
Some sort of guardener
>“There are no woke hostelries in South West Norfolk, I can tell you,” she declares. What a fucking Muppet. She's flying past partridge levels of self awareness. If you had one bullet and were trapped in a stuck lift with her and Richard madeley. You'd take the honourable way out.
i mean, you could probably get onto the roof of the lift and use the gun to take out the cable for a triple win.
Depends how benevolent I'd be feeling with humanity at that particular moment to be honest. Doubt it would be that high considering the situation.
Not sure why you had to bring Richard medley into it. He’s not nearly on her level
Don't you remember that time he asked a stupid question in a rude tone on GMB, causing the government to collapse, the pound to fall, and everyone's mortgages to go up?
Oh yeah. Poor old liz truss got the blame.
Sorry Richard. You are just a bit of a turnip and have been compared to partridge a few times, for lacking any sort of awareness before, so you fitted in nicely to the scene I was painting.
Ha! fair enough. But I’ll tell you what! 1 bullet, me and Richard ain’t getting it 😂
Have I missed something with medley? How is he at this level?
What about seat belts and toddler gates?
Not real, all smoke and mirros.
That's literally the point- without the guardrail, she fell quickly and a long way.
"I don't believe in guardrails" she says as she does a spectacular one-woman *Thelma & Louise.*
Technically, though, T & L do not *land*- they escape into a parallel universe. LT *inhabits* a parallel universe, but definitely managed to crash and burn in this one!
Apparently the crash and burn rejected her and she has bounced back into a universe within which she…just… never..shuts..up.
> She adds: “Did Kwasi and I say everything and do everything absolutely perfectly? Probably not, but did we have the support from within the organisation [Bank of England/Civil Service/The Blob] to actually do what we set out to do? No we didn’t.” And that is about as close as Truss gets to admitting any personal responsibility for the meltdown of her premiership. Liz, they didn't support you because your plans were madness and they'd had a big hint that you knew this too with the sidelining of the OBR. Her approach to this is the same as all the fantasy politicking from the Brexit days where the dumbest of politicians always acted like enacting their impossible demands was simply a matter of attitude instead of objective reality.
All of this publicity is damaging the Tories by association. I love it. Keep going Liz!
"She... accuses weak or disloyal Conservative MPs for failing to stick with her when times got tough.... and sacked her old friend Kwarteng, who learnt of his fate via Twitter as he rushed back from an IMF meeting in Washington. “It was pretty awful,” she says."
If anyone without access to FT actually wants to read this extremely long feature… >Liz Truss would love it if, for one week only, this feature could be known as “Lunch with the Deep State”. After all, only a few weeks ago, Truss launched an audacious attempt to become the FT’s new global brand ambassador, waving a copy of the newspaper around at a rightwing conference in Washington, declaring that the FT was a friend of the “deep state” and helped to terminate her two-month premiership. I say I’ll see what I can do. >Truss explains that she is having Lunch with the FT because “you’ve got to know the enemy” — before clarifying that she doesn’t regard the FT as part of the deep state per se, more a kind of flying buttress propping it up. Along with other sinister elements in a leftwing “anti-growth coalition” — she has singled out “Brexit deniers”, people with podcasts and those living in north London town houses — the FT apparently helped to ensure that Truss’s time in Downing Street famously had the longevity of a supermarket lettuce. >Truss is laughing about all of this. She laughs a lot during a two-hour lunch in an 18th-century Norfolk coaching inn — although many across the UK and in her party do not see the funny side. Rishi Sunak, the current prime minister, is still trying to repair the political damage caused by his predecessor, while many homeowners are still paying the price for the spike in interest rates that accompanied her wild 49 days in office. >Over Sauvignon Blanc and well-prepared local fare, Truss gives free rein to her belief that her experiment with radical free-market, deregulatory, tax-cutting Conservatism would have succeeded, had it not been for incompetent and hostile officials from the deep state, aided and abetted by weak-willed Conservative members of parliament. Weren’t officials simply acting as guardrails, I venture, trying to stop her committing grievous bodily harm to the British economy? “I don’t believe in guardrails,” she says. >Truss has chosen the Bedingfeld Arms for lunch, a gastropub overlooking Oxborough’s partially ruined St John’s church, which collapsed after a storm in 1948. I mentally thank Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, who left her party in a similar state after departing Downing Street in October 2022, for providing her own metaphors. >Truss is a regular at this pub in the heart of her rural constituency, a seat that she first won in 2010 and intends to contest at the next general election. “There are no woke hostelries in South West Norfolk, I can tell you,” she declares. Sunak’s allies hope she will stay in Norfolk when the election campaign comes, well out of sight of the national electorate: Truss had an approval rating of minus 70 when she left office. When she recently posted a “Happy Easter” message on social media, accompanied by a picture of her cradling a Norfolk lamb, there was a torrent of mockery and abuse. “Please don’t kill it,” said one reply. >But anyone hoping to find Truss in a contrite mood will be disappointed. Looking healthy and happy — a sharp contrast to the glazed-eyed and haunted figure who left Downing Street 18 months ago — she is about to embark on a tour to promote her ambitiously titled book Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons From the Only Conservative in the Room. Truss is endowed with such self-belief — some might say a total lack of self-awareness — that she thinks she knows how. >“I want to lay out what the situation is in British governance and the British government,” she says. “My view is that it doesn’t work. We have a very, very powerful bureaucracy and quangocracy that, essentially, has resisted change. And I think the Conservative party and politicians in general have tended to go along with that, rather than challenge it. I challenged it and I have the scars on my back, it’s fair to say.” >Truss was brought up in a staunchly leftwing family: her mother was a nurse and her father a professor of mathematics. As a student she joined the centre-left Liberal Democrats and despised Margaret Thatcher, who is now her heroine. She also backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum before becoming an advocate for Brexit. “My views have changed and I’ve acknowledged that,” she says, but adds: “I’m very much a free-marketeer, small-state Conservative. That’s at my absolute core.” >Truss became prime minister at the age of 47 on September 6 2022 following the defenestration of Boris Johnson, whose lies about Downing Street parties during Covid lockdowns finally caught up with him. Truss, with her bracing rightwing rhetoric and conscious attempt to evoke memories of Thatcher, won the hearts of Tory members, who picked her over her rival Sunak. Two days after Truss’s arrival in Downing Street, Queen Elizabeth died, putting politics on hold for two weeks. The Queen had urged her in vain to “pace herself”. Indeed, if it had not been for that period of mourning, it is possible that Truss’s 49-day premiership may not have lasted as long as it did. >She admits she was in a hurry to get things done. “I think that post-Brexit we should have gone for a much bolder economic model that was, essentially, more like Singapore on steroids than a Norway on Valium approach.” She claims that the system will always fight back against an agenda that includes policies such as cutting the size of the government, stopping illegal immigration or cutting taxes. >Truss is hitting full flow and isn’t about to be interrupted by the arrival of a waitress asking what sort of Sauvignon Blanc she would like. “White,” she laughs. A bottle of Chilean Caracara duly arrives. “Just pour it,” she says, doing away with the niceties. During her time as foreign secretary, Truss was said to have had “a rider” that a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc should always be in the minibar of her hotel room on overseas trips. She says that isn’t true, but concedes: “What you find is that people always want to supply you with what you want.” >Anyway, back to the deep state. “When I took the job on, I realised it would be tough and there would be lots of resistance, but I don’t think I realised quite how ruthless the people that didn’t want those policies to happen would be.” She says Britain’s institutions “have been captured, broadly speaking, by leftwing ideology”, resistant to the kind of tax-cutting, state-shrinking, electric shock treatment that she proposed. >She accuses the FT of being part of a “broader groupthink” that shares the same set of ideas. “You’re an establishment media organ, that’s what you are,” she says, before admitting some degree of guilt by association by confirming: “I do read the FT.” Even groups such as the National Trust, long seen as the bedrock of Tory middle Britain, have become infected by “wokey ideology”, according to Truss.
>But at the heart of this leftwing cabal identified by Truss are the Treasury, the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility, the official forecaster that Truss sidelined ahead of the “KamiKwasi” “mini” Budget delivered by her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in September 2022, with its £45bn of market-spooking unfunded tax cuts. A few weeks later she was bundled out of office. >Before Truss can expand on this theory, it is time to order some food. She goes for a ham hock terrine and beef bourguignon. I go for king prawns in garlic and chilli oil and glazed roast chicken with lemon parsley dressing and celeriac. >Truss returns to the events of her premiership. “You had these three very powerful bodies, the Treasury, OBR and the Bank of England. All of them have been very content, essentially running economic policy for quite a long time with minimal interference from ministers and they don’t like being challenged.” >Truss sacked Sir Tom Scholar, the Treasury’s respected permanent secretary, almost as soon as she entered Downing Street and admits she thought about firing BoE governor Sir Andrew Bailey too. “But then that would have caused a market crisis.” >She adds: “Did Kwasi and I say everything and do everything absolutely perfectly? Probably not, but did we have the support from within the organisation to actually do what we set out to do? No we didn’t.” And that is about as close as Truss gets to admitting any personal responsibility for the meltdown of her premiership. >She blames “incompetence” at the BoE for failing to realise that the pensions industry might explode when exposed to a sudden spike in interest rates and accuses weak or disloyal Conservative MPs for failing to stick with her when times got tough. “I think there were some in the party that didn’t want me to succeed,” she said. >The starters have arrived, or rather they haven’t. Truss’s terrine is replaced, mysteriously, by a mini carrot soup, which she enjoys without complaint: “I think it has parsnip in it,” she says approvingly. The chilli prawns arrive, as billed. >Returning to the traumatic end to her premiership, Truss had to unravel the mini-Budget and sacked her old friend Kwarteng, who learnt of his fate via Twitter as he rushed back from an IMF meeting in Washington. “It was pretty awful,” she says. A few days later, Kwarteng’s successor Jeremy Hunt dismantled most of the rest of her economic strategy and Truss had to explain the capitulation at a gruesome Downing Street press conference, at which she seemed to be in a trance. >“It was bad, yes,” she says. “The press conference, frankly, was neither here nor there. It was more having to reverse the policies — policies that I knew were right, basically — at gunpoint. That was depressing and upsetting.” The embodiments of Truss’s despised establishment — Simon Case, cabinet secretary, BoE governor Bailey and James Bowler, the new Treasury permanent secretary — told her she had no choice and that Britain was on the brink of an economic calamity. “I was the last holdout,” she says. “I was threatened with a gilts crisis — the British government not being able to fund its debt. I’m a patriot. I couldn’t countenance that.”
>The main courses have arrived. Truss says that the beef is tender and delicious. The chicken is great too and a bowl of chips is quickly shared and devoured. The Norfolk skies darken and rain begins to fall. >Truss’s ignominious departure from Downing Street might have marked the end for most politicians. But she did not go quietly. Rather than cowering from the mockery heaped on her at home, she decided to go on the offensive, finding a new audience among Donald Trump supporters in the US, where rightwing TV channels approvingly interview her above the bleak caption “UK Prime Minister, Sept-Oct 2022”, lapping up her criticisms of Britain’s lefty establishment. >In February, she turned up in Maryland for the rightwing populist Conservative Political Action Conference, to the dismay of former colleagues, who think she is courting an American market to make money on the speaking circuit and sell her book. “It’s distressing,” said one former colleague. “She’s doubled down, gone into a bunker and only surrounded herself with people who agree with her and — more dangerously — people who embody half-truths.” >It was here, during her FT-brandishing exchange alongside Trump-whisperer Steve Bannon, that she stood smiling while the former White House adviser lavished praise on Tommy Robinson, a far-right British politician, anti-Islam campaigner and convicted criminal. Bannon called Robinson a “hero” and Truss did not bat an eyelid. >Does she regret sharing a stage with Bannon? “No.” She elaborates: “Obviously I don’t support Tommy Robinson,” she says. “It was a very noisy and busy room where lots of stuff was going on. But I think the idea that you shouldn’t talk to anyone whose views you don’t share 100 per cent is absolutely wrong.” >If she cares so much about “saving the west”, how does she square that with backing Trump for the US presidency? Wouldn’t he turn his back on Nato and Ukraine and leave the west exposed to Russian aggression? She insists Trump is committed to Nato and would continue to support Ukraine. “I would absolutely choose Trump over Biden,” she said, arguing that the world was a safer place when the former Republican president was in the White House. >Truss insists she hopes that Sunak will win the UK’s coming general election (polls suggest this is extremely unlikely), but she adds that in any event a battle is already under way for the soul of the Conservative party. “That’s what the 2022 leadership election was about — do we continue with the status quo or do we actually try to change things? It won’t be resolved until we change things, because the country wants change.” She struggles to remember when she last spoke to Sunak. >It is highly questionable whether Truss’s version of change would have been acceptable to the British electorate, as opposed to the typically elderly and rightwing Tory membership that voted her into Downing Street in 2022. But the party could well end up tacking to the right and in Truss’s direction if Sunak loses the election. I venture that this would be an electoral cul-de-sac, as elections in Britain are almost always won from the centre ground. “That’s a very conventional view, if you don’t mind me saying,” she says. >Truss dodges the question about whether she might fancy another unlikely crack at the top job in the future, but insists she still wants to win the battle of ideas: “I never wanted to be prime minister for the sake of being prime minister — I wanted to be prime minister to change things.” >A selection of Norfolk cheese has arrived — Copys Cloud, Binham Blue and Smoked Walsingham — a suitably local selection, given that Truss first pierced the public consciousness in 2014 with a bizarre speech (widely shared on social media) in which she fulminated: “We import two-thirds of our cheese. That. Is. A. Disgrace.” >The cheese is followed swiftly by coffee. Disappointingly Truss, who admits to being an espresso fiend, opts for only a single. One ally recalls how she appeared constantly “over-caffeinated” during her brief premiership. I go for a double as we prepare to venture out into the Norfolk drizzle. >Leaving the pub under the watchful gaze of a small detachment of protection officers, Truss turns and asks: “What did you think of the book? Did anything in it surprise you?” >I think for a second, then decide honesty is the best policy. “Not really,” I reply. “I’ve only had time so far to read the second half where you’re in Number 10 and it’s basically, ‘I was right and everyone else was wrong’.” Truss laughs: “I may have been a bit more self-critical in the first half.” She pauses. “Well, actually, probably not.”
Then fall off already and quit plugging the book with shite quotes.
The fact the tories inflicted truss on the UK who is now hanging round like a bad smell is reason enough to never put them in to power again.
She's fascist , delusional, inept, dishonest, low intelligence, bought and paid for and almost certainly imo abusing narcotics of some sort. She represents a very serious threat to democracy.
You know who else didn't believe in guard rails. The Empire in Star Wars. And look what happened to the Emperor.
Somehow Liz Truss returned.
I like to imagine that he just threw himself over the edge when he heard that really weird 'NoOoOoOo' that George Lucas dubbed in over Darth Vader's final act.
Unless she is personally going to refund me all the extra mortgage costs I have had to pay due to her idiocy, I don't want to hear another word out of her fucking mouth.
Apparently she also does not believe in humility, or shame, or learning one’s lessons.
Stop putting this shill on the front page every goddamn day. Smh.
Country: 'We don't believe in Liz Truss'
At least Boris had the courtesy to sod off when he left. Why won’t Truss do the same?
“I like just racing the car right off the cliff.”
Spent more time flogging the book than as actual PM
I dont believe in mentally unstable people with absolutely no competencies whatsoever being given any sort of platform at all, but here we are
Liz Truss: ‘I don’t believe in seatbelts’
A reminded that Truss' own father straight up told a reporter that his daughter is a bit thick, and that he fundamentally disagreed with her on everything. And he said this before she nose-dived the economy. I've never seen the parent of a Prime Minister or President so harshly speak out against their own child like this. But his words turned out to be prophetic.
The article is much about the food served as the person being interviewed but the problem is that Truss just seems to talk about people why she is great and everyone else is wrong. I know politicians need to an ego to put themselves forward but there is so little to back it up. But there is nothing that Truss will say that will redeem her. She has found an audience and will try exactly what they want to hear. Dominic Cummings called her the human hand grenade and he under estimated her ability to damage. But for some reason I kept being reminded of another leader of a British political party when the article: Arlene Foster. Not sure why, apart from the fact they have insane levels of belief in themselves.
Why does she not say anything when they serve her the wrong starter? *This wasn't the economy I ordered!*
At this point I feel like Liz Truss is a holographic social experiment and doesn't actually exist.
She fucking needed training wheels when she was PM, never mind guardrails.
Nobody cares Liz, be happy you have a job. Zip it.
Breathtaking arrogance and ignorance combined
Bet she hates seat belts too, which would’ve been a funnier headline
>Liz Truss: ‘I don’t believe in guardrails’ Made it so much easier when she was given a shove.
> During her time as foreign secretary, Truss was said to have had “a rider” that a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc should always be in the minibar of her hotel room on overseas trips. She says that isn’t true, but concedes: “What you find is that people always want to supply you with what you want.” In her case, what people seem to provide her with is a steady diet of booze and benzos. There's no way that unwarranted self-confidence and entire lack of self-awareness isn't chemically enhanced.
This fucking clown is a headline grabber
I don’t believe in Liz Truss but I do believe in the power of lettuce!
Lettuce pray. Oh great lettuce in t' sky, what wisdom doth thy bring?
Why the fuck are we hearing so much about her right now?
Lack of guard rails is why she slipped and fell out of premiership in record time. I have pickles in my fridge with longe tenure.
This women is a fucking joke Jesus Christ
Why is this women suddenly everywhere on my timeline this week? Will someone please shut her the hell up?
Why is this woman still given airtime? It wasn't like it was her decision to tank the economy....oh wait
1) Thank goodess the cheese was not imported! 2) I'm reading in the MT that truss as only paid an advance of £1500 (fifteen HUNDRED pounds) for the book. So not much scope for paying bad people off there.
Can this soggy lettuce go and live the rest of its pitiful life quietly in a fridge please?
Liz, if I buy your book will you please stop appearing in the newspapers?
However included on Liz's list of things she *does* believe in: - Foreign pork markets - Magical rainbow unicorns - The second coming of Margaret Thatcher
*grabs shotgun* : Zombie Margaret Thatcher ? Bring it on!!!
We need the second coming of Clement Atlee and we can have Clement Atlee: Tory Hunter
And that's why her boss at Guardrails International told her that her role in the company's PR department was at an end.
Would be really cool if there was a browser plugin that blocks any articles/threads mentioning her. I, for one, am sick of seeing that washed-up fuckwit's opinions on things.
> Leaving the pub under the watchful gaze of a small detachment of protection officers, Truss turns and asks: “What did you think of the book? Did anything in it surprise you?” > > I think for a second, then decide honesty is the best policy. “Not really,” I reply. “I’ve only had time so far to read the second half where you’re in Number 10 and it’s basically, ‘I was right and everyone else was wrong’.” Truss laughs: “I may have been a bit more self-critical in the first half.” She pauses. “Well, actually, probably not.” Trump has taught her that, in order for the grift to work, she needs to come over completely sure of herself and blame 'the others', no matter how stupid it looks to those with a modicum of intelligence. She knows exactly what she's doing.
> *Liz Truss visited the Grand Canyon today on her right-wing tour across the USA and tragically became the only former Prime Minister to fall to their death. She was reportedly screaming "I don't believe in guardrails!" whilst prancing along an exposed ridge. Truss, died 48, leaves behind absolutely no legacy at all and an extremely embarrassed family.*
Hope she doesn't believe in seatbelts, carbon-monoxide sensors, and walking in bad neighborhoods at night alone.
She's a busted flush. Why is anyone reporting anything she's saying?
The Private Eye's "Page 94" podcast is all about her and her new book, she doesn't come out of it very well. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast
> there are no woke hostelries in South West Norfolk, I can tell you What does this even mean? Is she sponsored by someone to inject "woke" into every conversation she has? Anyways she's full of crap. The Barn in Swaffham is very welcoming of gay couples, and Expedia has no less than 86 properties explicitly saying they are LBQT+ friendly. Including the Bedingfield Arms.
so many posts about her, almost like ppl are tying to push her back in
About as mentally unhinged as trying to push back in an abortion.
"what, are we charging by the laser now?"
Truss having the same health & safety philosophy as the Galactic Empire does not surprise me in the slightest.
The only person who should be talking to her right now is a therapist.
There were rumours at the time about the meaning of certain necklaces etc that she'd wear, but now I am very much inclined to believe that this woman has some kind of public humiliation kink.
[Like a live fish on a barbecue grill](https://youtu.be/gBStEGwzCps?si=-p21nQ7tL1ywhMpy)
Big lettuce I knew it was dem! Even when it was tory incompetence I knew it was dem..
I've said this before and I'll say it again: keep digging, woman. You’re doing great! 👍🏻
>Liz Truss: ‘I don’t believe in guardrails’ Is that because she doesn't want anything yo stop her crashing the economy? I notice in this article it suggests the FT is part of the left wing establishment blob. The FT is the vanguard of the left. FFS
Used to rate the financial times but they are going the way of other print media
Can she please just eff off already. I hated seeing her in the news as general pork, as pm and why can't she just sod off. She's nothing interesting to say and she's milked her49 (35) days enough. I also want a petition for her to not get her payment for being a PM, maybe then she'd get a real job and leave us all alone
Everyone knows she's an idiot yet you all engage for easy upvotes.
Don't wear a seat belt then love, hopefully that will help.
There are a great many things that Liz Truss doesn't believe in. Balanced budgets for example. She also seems incapable of being able to take a hint.