The Conservative MP, who is releasing a book called Ten Years to Save the West, argued that the left had infiltrated public and private institutions in “the deep state” and sabotaged her efforts to cut taxes and reduce the size of government.
Truss was forced out of office by her own party after her chancellor presented a budget of £45bn in unfunded tax cuts, which unleashed economic chaos, sent interest rates soaring and caused people to pay more for their mortgages.
Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow paymaster general, said Sunak should address Truss’s comments and take action. “After crashing the economy and sending mortgages rocketing, Liz Truss is now spreading conspiracy theories with Steve Bannon and spearheading a wacky fringe group to take over the Tory party again.
“If Rishi Sunak had any backbone he would stand up and take action against her and Tory MPs indulging this sort of damaging nonsense.
The Liberal Democrats called for Truss to give back the £115,000 allowance for post-ministerial life she was given after leaving office.
“This Conservative party love-in for rightwing American politics is like watching a slow-moving car crash. These bizarre conspiracy theories pedalled by Truss and her cabal should have no place in British politics. Blue wall voters will run a mile from this nonsense,” said Daisy Cooper, the party’s deputy leader.
“Liz Truss was never fit to be prime minister and certainly is not fit to be given a six-figure allowance of taxpayers’ money. It represents another slap in the face to all those paying hundreds of pounds more a month on their mortgages due to her disastrous policies and should be stripped immediately.”
During appearances at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac), the former prime minister, who spent only seven weeks in power in 2022, appeared to be making the case for a comeback and relaunching her career in the UK.
She’s not the smartest of people but even she knows there’s no chance of a comeback. This is probably more relevant:
The Conservative MP, who is releasing a book called Ten Years to Save the West, argued that the left had infiltrated public and private institutions in “the deep state” and sabotaged her efforts to cut taxes and reduce the size of government.
She’s hoping to flog a few books to gullible right wing loons looking to bolster their worldview and come up with some explanation for why her time in office was such a disaster that doesn’t put the blame on her or her puppetmasters.
She’s still an MP right? What is she doing fucking about in America when she should be working for her constituency.
You don’t get punished for not doing your job as an MP. Just ask John Stonehouse.
It should be. The UK political system needs urgent and humongous reform before further trust in the democratic institutions withers away.
completely agree, what would you do to reform it out of interest?
Short answer: policies over parties and making politics more accessible to the public who wish to be fairly represented.
Weaken the power of all political parties. Policy groups and think tanks are allowed to form around single policies but not be a political group represented on the ballot box.
All policy groups get a fixed campaigning budget from the government they can not exceed. Benefits in kind are also counted to discourage corruption. All contributions are to be declared publicly and the named private individuals must be the sole source of the capital contribution.
MPs wishing to stand for election must declare the specific policies they support. They get a single A3 poster to be displayed in the polling station with the policies they support on it.
Polcies, must be stated in SMART format as any sensible manager would set for objectives: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Each element of the SMART layout may not exceed 2 side of A4, meaning a maximum of 10 pages for each policy.
Replace First Past The Post with Marked Preference.
Prime Minister is directly elected by the public from the pool of elected MPs through Marked Preference.
Create Citizen assemblies to tackle keystone reforms as they have been shown to have had great success in Ireland and other countries. Citizen assembly budgets are double that of private policy groups to keep the balance of money in politics firmly in favour of the majority not the few.
Slowly replace the House of Lords with the House of Assemblies. Those that have previously served in Citizen Assemblies are chosen at random to serve in the new House of Assemblies. The commissions works currently undertaken by the House of Lords, i.e. most of the work they do outside of scrutinising policy proposals, to be given to a technocratic jury of experts in their respective fields.
The creation of a federated civic social network to act as an online public space and centre for all e-government services (local, regional, and national).
And finally, some other reforms that also affect politics:
- Everyone’s tax records are publicly available. This is already a reality in Finland.
- All print, broadcast, and digital media companies that style themselves as “News” must adhere to the “fair and balanced” doctrine which will be over seen by an independent watchdog with powers to punish those seeking to spread disinformation.
Well she doesn’t work for her constituency even when she’s in her constituency.
She’s just messing around now until the general election and then she thinks she might be a shoe in for party leader. You know because everyone likes a brainless incompetent.
It does matter because a lot of Conservatives still believe in her. She pulls crowds at Conservative events. Regardless of her motives, the stuff she is peddling is destabilizing. She is feeding crazy. We don’t need the crazy we have, let alone more.
I think provably lying to the public needs to be a form of crime. Or we will get more Brexit like events.
Any British politician who uses the phrase 'deep state" should be automatically stripped of any authority. It’s a dumb phrase made up by the American right wing to mean things they don’t like.
The left couldn’t organize a grand conspiracy as they are far too busy having their own internal conflicts over pointless crap. I wish there was a conspiracy, at least that would be a sign of a robust opposition.
Seems like a right wing fantasy. A government silencing the political speech of a ex PM. Or for that matter any politician.
How ever much stupidity she may talk or act. You know for a fact the second a sitting government tries to silence her. The far right will have a point folks will listen to.
Claims that the left of fucking nutbag politics is about sensoring ideas they cannot fight against. Will fill the press. They are happy to spread lies we can address. Why the hell give them reality to help.
silencing reactionaries is good actually.
preferably permanently.
You can’t even claim the royal family are lizards anymore.
It’s health and safety gone mad.
Let her talk. Who cares? Just paint her as a clown as she spews her nonsense. Sometimes it’s better to let people ramble instead of stopping them. When speech is prohibited they can speak about the restriction of their speech. When you let people ramble on they show themselves as the fools they are
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rishi Sunak should take action against Liz Truss for appearing alongside the far-right commentator Steve Bannon and spreading conspiracy theories about the “deep state” ousting her from power, Labour has said.
Truss also appeared alongside Bannon, a former strategist to Donald Trump, on Real America’s Voice, a far-right TV channel, in a hallway outside the main conference auditorium.
The Conservative MP, who is releasing a book called Ten Years to Save the West, argued that the left had infiltrated public and private institutions in “the deep state” and sabotaged her efforts to cut taxes and reduce the size of government.
Truss was forced out of office by her own party after her chancellor presented a budget of £45bn in unfunded tax cuts, which unleashed economic chaos, sent interest rates soaring and caused people to pay more for their mortgages.
“After crashing the economy and sending mortgages rocketing, Liz Truss is now spreading conspiracy theories with Steve Bannon and spearheading a wacky fringe group to take over the Tory party again.
It represents another slap in the face to all those paying hundreds of pounds more a month on their mortgages due to her disastrous policies and should be stripped immediately.”
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