Liz Truss has told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that “that the British state is not working.”
Truss may have confused the state of not working with her record as the shortest serving prime minister ever.
CPAC is increasingly becoming known as the conference for extreme right-wing politicians, talking heads, and rabid conservatives.
Of course, Truss may well make another appearance there – because one of these speeches will stick, right?
Liz Truss on Tour
Liz Truss claimed that:
We now have a major problem in Britain that judges are making decisions that should be made by politicians.
According to Truss, this is Tony Blair’s fault. Now, Tony Blair is many things – a war criminal, a scumbag in a suit with the blood of thousands on his hands – but there have been a number of Conservative Party governments in office since then. Why didn’t they crack on with stopping these all-powerful judges from running the country? That could be because such a thing isn’t fucking happening.
Or, if you’re Truss, it could be that judges are “no longer accountable” and:
There’s no doubt in my mind that until those changes are reversed, we do not have a functioning country. The British state is now failing, is not working. The decisions are not being made by politicians.
As ever, Truss is serving as a useful idiot.
Of course the biggest players in right-wing American politics want any British politician willing to bow and scrape at their feet to act as a mouthpiece. This is the same conference Trump himself is set to speak at.
Truss’ speech isn’t about reality. It’s not about the fact that the real problem is corrupt politicians using democracy as a get-quick-rich scheme. It’s not about how there isn’t a shady conspiracy stopping the country from working – we all know cronyism means politicians can do their scheming in public with no consequence. It’s not about how Liz Truss tanked the British economy so quickly she’ll never come anywhere near mainstream British politics again.
What is it about, you may ask? Well, Truss has got to make a living somehow and it might as well be in the form of fuelling right-wing conspiracy theories.
Line up
Liz Truss also said she’s hoping Britain can have its own MAGA (make America great again) movement:
And I think what ultimately will happen, what I hope to see, is a movement like you have in the US with Maga [‘Make America great again’], with CPAC, with all these organisations, that ultimately pushes change we all want. We want to have a British CPAC.
Who’s this ‘we’? If nothing else, the catastrophic failure of making America great again speaks for itself. In 2023 there were 36.8 million people living in poverty in the richest nation in the world. A report from the Commonwealth Fund found that:
people in the United States experience the worst health outcomes overall of any high-income nation. Americans are more likely to die younger, and from avoidable causes, than residents of peer countries.
So far, so…. not so great. Let’s continue anyway.
In 2021, more Americans died from gun-related injuries than any other year on record. During Trump’s first term, unemployment increased to 6.4%. The number of people without health insurance rose by 3 million. So-called ‘illegal’ immigration rose 14.7% in comparison to 2016.
Lofty goals
Liz Truss is such a chancer that she likely knows all this. These people are never just plain dim. They know they’re being opportunistic wankers, but the grift is the grift. All Truss is doing is spending her early booting out of British politics touring around saying mad things to appeal to right-wing bozos. The facts stand against her. But then again, when has that ever stopped Truss?
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