Back in the spotlight for one day only
Having come close to crashing the economy less than two years ago, and then ousted as PM after just 50 days, to the great relief of all those who wished she had never been let in to 10 Downing Street in the first place, Ms Truss could have kept quiet. That would have been the sensible thing to do. But sensible and Liz Truss have a singularly transient relationship.
So what superior insights did she have to offer those attending? Get this slice of hokum: “successive Conservative leaders and Governments have discovered that a majority in the House of Commons is no longer enough to turn us away from the path of Blairite declinism”. And to that I call bullshit.
“Blairite declinism”? Is that when the NHS was decently funded? When councils were not staring bankruptcy in the face? When roads were decently maintained? When folks had a little more discretionary income, the ability to splash out on stuff once in a while without having to cut back on other spending? When Prime Ministers didn’t go round crashing the economy on the say-so of spivs and chancers in those Astroturf lobby groups?
Y’know, I rather like the sound of that there “declinism”. But let’s hear from Ms Truss herself. “Wokeism seems to be on the curriculum…there is confusion about basic biological facts, like what is a woman. Look at the net zero zealots…if you listen to the Today programme, I don’t recommend it, you’ll hear demands for more public spending”. More misuse of the word “woke”.
And look who's behind it all
It’s the same sob story: as with the railway sell-offs, so with Ms Truss and her disastrous time in office, the refrain is consistent. If only we’d been allowed to do it properly, all would have been well. The rail transport industry, and later the whole economy, would have been utterly screwed, but it would have been achieved in accordance with the purest of orthodox economic principles.
So who was brave enough to rock up to this gathering of the irretrievably irrelevant? Beth Rigby of Sky News observed “lots of MPs here including Liz Truss, Jacob Rees Mogg, Lee Anderson, Andrea Jenkyns, Priti Patel, Wendy Morton, Alec Shelbrooke, David Jones”. Plenty of those about to be turfed out of the Commons come the next General Election.
What they heard was a combination of paranoia and ignorance: as Faisal Islam mused, “noteworthy that at PopCon ex-PM Liz Truss listed the Cameron-created Office of Budget Responsibility as one of the quangos and bureaucracies built up under Blair and ‘taken over by the left’ from which Cons haven’t done enough to ‘take the power back’”.
But what she is selling is popular, honestly. Lewis Goodall again: “Truss says Britain is full of ‘secret conservatives’ - again echoing Bennism. The voters are there really, they just have to be inspired with a true ideology”. No, Britain is full of not very secret pissed off voters who have had enough of the Tories. Ms Truss and Littlewood are deluded if they believe otherwise.
One Conservative clown car, right now, is one too many. That is all.
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5 comments:
Ah, yes. Kwarteng and Truss of inglorious memory.
But who could forget the comedy sight of Kwarteng summoned to Amerika to explain himself to the Fourth Reich at the Fed. Then to be sacked midair on the return journey, then to shuffle into the dole queue with the Laura Ashley of politics..... who had just sacked him on orders from said Fourth Reich. Both of them failing to see you must do things in the Right propaganda way, not like an out-of-control Alf and Elsie Garnett.
Just wait, the next gang, Starmer and Reeves, will set Britain back on the correct propagandised Far Right path. They're already waving white flags.
“There is a damaging divide between those who are making the decisions – those in the elite within the M25 – and those people on the ground,” Liz Truss 6 February.
“Britain is full of secret Conservatives” (could she mean the famous Red Tories?): Liz Truss 6 February
Sound familiar?
Maybe there really is 'more that unites us than divides us'.
Remarkable likeness to a far right Quisling "Labour" apparatchik. Who was naturally paid off with a peerage from blue and red tories:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_McNicol
Among their number is one Mhairi Fraser, who is their candidate for Epsom & Ewell where the incumbent is the spectacularly incompetent Chris Grayling. Back in 2016 she was effusive over the prospect of rapey orange bigot Donald TЯump becoming POTUS and while that was some time ago she doesn’t seem to have said anything about changing her mind. Dumb blonde meets swivel-eyed loon.
The Pop Con website sign-up page proudly proclaims that a whopping 30 people have applied to fo "get involved as much or as little as you like", a number that has not budged since launch day. I call foul, both GB news viewers must have enrolled several times to inflate the figure.
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