EXCLUSIVE : Liz Truss is back ā on freedom, values, growth, low taxes, smaller state, higher incomes, wokery, gender politics, China, Russia, defence… and Macron & Biden.
In a pivotal speech in Washington DC, the former PM takes no prisoners.
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April 14, 2023
You say ā āThe former bloc uses state power against its own citizens, invades Ukraine and threatens Taiwan. It seeks to impose an alternative reality and different values on the world, as it opposes democracy, freedom and free enterprise. It tells its citizens what to think, what to say and what to do. It scythes down the entrepreneurs, stifles dissent and impedes individual success and prosperity.ā referencing the āChina blocā.
Surely you mean āthe latterā – because that is exactly what the decadent western world has done to its citizens. We are even allowed to state that there are two sexes! State violence both economically and physically exercised on peaceful law-abiding citizens.
Margaret Thatcher would not even take on the Miners until she was prepared and has a stockpile of coal. Truss and the demented neo-Cons incluing Biden want to take on Russia and China with a popgun or nukes! They are stark staring MAD.
April 15, 2023
Well said. And we have a Chancellor who openly admired China’s authoritarian policies over Covid (a Low Consequence Infectious Disease) and probably a great deal else.
As does Schwab, the man Hunt and Sunak really serve. The difference between Xi’s China and the so-called democracies of the west is only one of scale…. and about 10 years if they get their way.
April 14, 2023
Please spare us we suffered enough during her tenure as PM
April 14, 2023
Her/Kwasi budget might have been the straw that finally broke the camel’s back with the assistance of the BoE and Sunak perhaps. But all the damage had been done by Sunak as Chancellor with his tax, borrow, print and piss down the drain policies, the lockdowns, the soft covid loans, furlough, HS2, eat out to help out and all the rest of his waste & incompetence.
April 14, 2023
@Gabe +1
April 15, 2023
Exactly !
April 15, 2023
I agree with much of your post but think that EOTHO was a fair idea. Arguably, there’s a case that similar assistance needs to be given to the hospitality sector right now. (Pub/restaurant-closures would be the metric I would be following most closely if I were a responsible minister.) A VAT-cut would be the simplest way of giving help.
April 15, 2023
Your wrong again Bill, she was going to get back to normal but the WEF did not want that!
April 15, 2023
Gabe
If you had studied the mistakes done by lord Barber you would have known that Truss was making the same mistakes and we are still paying for it
Mfd
You really don’t know what you are talking about
April 14, 2023
As far as I can see the Tory friendly media – in their own interests – are keeping very quiet about this.
April 15, 2023
Minority report?
April 14, 2023
Good speech, she would have made a good PM ….if allowed to remain and supported by her parliamentary MPs
April 14, 2023
She was doomed by the fact that most of the Tory MP did not want her they wanted more of Sunak’s tax to death socialism. She never has any chance of surviving for long enough for her policies to work as they would have done.
April 15, 2023
After Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt should have been the winner, and our country would more likely be proceeding better than it is now.
Plotters prevented the wider Conservative Party Members from being able to elect the superior candidate by stitching up the threshold to force their own choice instantly. What a mess!
Since then, Penny has often dressed in black, relatively quiet, possibly poised to pounce into control.
April 15, 2023
I didn’t see too much in Miss Mordaunt that suggested she could run the country.
April 23, 2023
‘Penny Mordaunt’? WTF, my local bank manager would be a better PM than Ms Mordaunt
Just another way-overly ambitious MP without the talent to match.
The no. 1 focus of the Tory party right now should be how to get higher calibre politicians and with proper experience in business.
April 15, 2023
The Globalists didn’t want a conservative Conservative. They orchestrated Johnson’s defenestration and wanted their man Sunak in No.10 to do THEIR bidding, not ours. So they carried out what was basically a coup.
April 15, 2023
šš» got it in one Glen. Now look at the incompetent two we have now!
They are the worst I have seen in all my eighty years
April 14, 2023
Hi john
How can lizz truss give a speech on lower taxes and higher incomes when we have the highest tax burdens and ever decreasing incomes
Thank you John
April 15, 2023
Well she did give the lowest tax payers the biggest tax cut by increasing their national insurance tax free allowance from Ā£9570 to Ā£12570 it came in last November. The national living wage renamed by Osborne (for over 23 year olds) from April 2010 to April 2023 has gone up over 75% in 13 years. Fiscal drag on the personal allowance this year was a silly one but perhaps they want the feel good of a raise in 2024, too much damage will be done by then.
It is the middle, upper (62% tax rate as the personal allowance is withdrawn from Ā£100k to Ā£120k) and single earner families that have been most affected by tax policy and fiscal drag (withdrawal of child benefit) it is a very unfair tax.
April 14, 2023
Thank you Sir John
Its what is needed, a Conservative fightback by Conservatives. Otherwise if they keep going unchallenged these Socialists in Power will steel the party from under everyone’s nose.
The UK Electorate voted for a Conservative Party and it has been stolen from them
April 14, 2023
Glad to see that Truss is getting support from you. She was on the right track only in a bit too much of hurry. Better luck in the future.
April 15, 2023
It was her poor choice of Chancellor that did her in. Someone who knew the ropes and could get things done and not frighten the horses as it were.
April 15, 2023
Agreed.
April 14, 2023
I havenāt listened to it but does it contain any statement along the lines: āIām really sorry to have blown the chance we had to implement free market policies by rushing into an announcement of tax cuts which, while sensible ideas in themselves, were bound to stir controversy, and doing so along with a massive uncapped energy subsidy without anything at all on spending restraint. I did not learn the great lesson of Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson, which is you can implement bold free market policies only having set the ground and won the intellectual argument. Iād like to apologise to all those Conservative voters, volunteers and funders whoāve seen our support in the polls tank from -5% to -30% because of me and my cock-up. The Bank of England and the blob did all they could to frustrate and denigrate me – but of course no-one should have expected any different.
I will now pledge all my efforts to getting the Conservatives under Rishi Sunak re-elected so we avoid the disaster of a left-wing Labour govt. I recognise now that Rishi was by far the better candidate last summerā. (?)
April 15, 2023
Any chance of posting your love letters between you and, Rushi ?
I think if anyone should apologies to the British people it should be Sunak. I’ll leave you to figure out why.
April 15, 2023
And I second that remark, Mark B
April 14, 2023
Given we are now told by Liz “Itās also why itās wrong for President Macron to suggest that Taiwan is simply something not of direct interest to Europe” can we assume that the jury has been out once again and come back with a different verdict this time?
The swift back-tracking once in office of the forthright, clear and certain view given during the campaign about friend Macron was unwelcome. (It was of course and is even now unclear if Macron is a friend of France never mind anyone else.)
And Liz seems fully signed-up to the Foreign Office view that we are the ones who should step up to pull others’ chestnuts out of the fire – over Taiwan of all places! Let Joe “Britain-hating” Biden do it without us and he can see how much help he gets instead from his pals in the Republic of Ireland whilst he does.
April 14, 2023
Does Macron want China in control of the 60% of world semiconductor production that currently comes from Taiwan?
Mind you the UK government seems to want China to own the Newport fab in this country…
April 15, 2023
I did not read any of President Macron’s comments but, if he did say that then that is a serious misjudgement. Taiwan produces most of the worlds semi-conductors, CPU’s and other high tech’ equipment. It’s loss would be enormous and felt here very much in the West.
Taiwan is NOT a sleepy backwater of which we know little about. It is global hub of technology and vital to our industries and wealth.
April 15, 2023
š but I hope Biden fails, just like Macron
April 14, 2023
Oh my goodness!
She really means business this time!
And thereās JR too.
Wonderful.
See how much like Mrs T she looks in that photo.
April 14, 2023
Oh please! Mrs T was beautiful – she did not have a potato face! Her intelligence shone out.
April 14, 2023
Good to hear a senior politician talking common sense…..
It will do little good though – The same forces that were arranged against her when she was PM are still too strong, as she suggests, socialism reigns!
If it was meant to be a rallying call then it needs to be an inclusive one, including the real conservative element of the Tory party and new sensible parties like Reform – Without a combined effort by common sense parties we will not see any change.
April 14, 2023
@Brian Harris
The unelected ‘Blob’ will fight tooth & nail to remain the defacto Government. Democracy cannot be allowed to show its self in their centrally controlled Socialist state. Bringing LT down was just a twitching of their mussels as a taster of the power they have with the media
April 15, 2023
Yeah ! Shame she like all the other Tories will not be around long.
April 14, 2023
Liz Truss was absolutely right to say that we have a cost of government crisis not a cost of living crisis.
This is as a result of the unnecessary and pointless Net Zero Strategy making energy and consequently everything much more expensive, the enormous expansion in the unproductive civil service and quangos and waste on vanity projects such as HS2.
April 14, 2023
@Original Richard +1 The cost of the State is the refusal by this Conservative Government to manage. They fear the ‘Blob’ that awarded them the ego trip
April 14, 2023
The most immediate cause of inflation is the lockdowns. There is no evidence Liz Truss breathed a word of opposition to them in the cabinet. In so far as there was opposition from within the govt – and there wasnāt enough – it was driven by Rishi Sunak.
April 15, 2023
Indeed, though even Truss is not sound on the Mayās moronic Net Zero insanity or at least she is not prepared to point to tell the truth about this issue. The war on CO2 plant food makes no sense whatsoever not in scientific, environmental nor economic terms.
April 15, 2023
Which makes it even more curious why she and Kwarteng didn’t delay their budget until they could put forward plans to cut the size of the state/spending as well.
I’m afraid being wise after the event, when you’ve blown your only chance, is not terribly useful.
April 15, 2023
At the time, so much needed doing so rapidly. Too many overreacted without assessing, and too many copied that overreaction. Perfection is a moving target needing maintenance.
Message to those at fault:
Your leader hit the bullās eye with her first dart.
Why throw yours into her flight in your second of panic?
April 14, 2023
Liz Truss spells it out in clear english.You and possibly 100 other Conservative MPs support her thinking and roadmap, Conservatives in the country likewise. The conservative party minus 100 plus all the others of declared socialist thinking in Parliament do not. A fact confirmed when an undemacratic coupe took place at the behest of the establishment blob, and realised by easily bought MPs.
For those 100 Conservative MPs there is now a dilema. They belong to a party that will gerimander MP/Candidate selection such that if elected you will be back to where you are now in a consocialist party with no prospect of a Liz Truss type programme. It will be more of the same. Alternatively give thought to 100 en masse joining the Reform Party, who in power would give you a Liz Truss Conservative agenda. Which is of greatest importance, a party that has clearly left Conservatism behind in a quest for a high tax globalist future, or a sovereign United Kingdom. It is said that, those the gods would destroy, they first drive mad. Since Brexit 2016 the would be gods have been at it. Take action before dementia fells us all.
April 14, 2023
Lizz Truss is a Conservative.We do not have a Conservative Government.
April 14, 2023
@agricola +1.
The Conservative Party needs to be returned to the Conservatives that elected it in, and not remain a tool of the socialists now embedded to destroy the economy and the very being of the UK
April 15, 2023
We’ve been here before. Why should, Sir John leave ? Why not let him stay and fight for his party, even if it does go down.
If any other party has better policies and candidates it will be a success in and on its own. No need for the likes of our kind host.
It is not he that needs to change. It is us !
April 15, 2023
Mark B
Parties that exist on an illigitimate base are not worth fighting for, they are yesterdays chip paper. This sovereign country is however worth the fight. Parties are transient, the country and it’s people are infinitely less so.
April 14, 2023
“Truss is back” sounds a bit l Iike ‘Winston is back’
Just shows how off the rails things have got if some believe that this new twaddle is is going to save us.
Presumably wearing a red coat in Washington signifies her prefrence for the Republican party and maybe even Trump himself.. and JR is backing this new pitch as if the public cannot see through.
she already had a chance and failed. the woman is a pity to behold.
April 14, 2023
Liz Truss is distinctive with high qualities that few others can reach.
She has potential to return as a better PM when the currently-tolerated waster is ousted.
April 14, 2023
@SJR twitter ‘The Prime Minister wants to win back lost Conservative voters and wants to promote growth. So why not cut some taxes?’
It could all start with a Conservative Government, with this Socialist Cabal it’s simply not going to happen
April 15, 2023
Revenge some say is a dessert best served cold.
Ms Truss if she stays in politics could well become a PITA and expose the many failings of the selection process that gives us such poor representation and sheep like decision making.
April 15, 2023
It was good to hear from Truss some geopolitical and economic analysis a level or two above Sunak’s pay grade. Economic freedom and freedom of speech are indeed our Western heritage and those who want to restrict them surely have no place in the party once led by Mrs Thatcher. Unfortunately, I felt that Liz Truss overdid her tendency towards stirring up tensions and conflict across the world, which does not help economic prosperity. Quite the reverse. My energy bill has nearly tripled since she was foreign minister making belligerent statements about Russia, and I hate to think of what could happen if we are dragged into a war with China. The 90s and early 2000s were a time of prosperity here and in much of the world, because our leaders including Thatcher had succeeded in ending Cold War confrontation. That is surely a lesson to be learned from the success of Western values that Truss highlighted. Freedom means not the freedom to bomb and intimidate, but the freedom to trade and prosper.
April 15, 2023
It makes a pleasant change to hear a Conservative who actually sounds like one. But it’s also irrelevant since the Blu-Green Socialist Party which is masquerading as the Conservative and Unionist Party will not be allowed a Conservative Leader.
The Globalists have made it perfectly clear: who and what the Party Members want and who and what the voters want is irrelevant …. it’s only who and what they want that matters. And they want a surveilled and controlled society, the Net Zero lunacy, digital currencies and the WEF’s version of “the new communism.”
April 15, 2023
Having recently read ‘Out of the Blue’, by Harry Cole, I’ll confess to not being much of a fan of Liz Truss. She’s too liberal on many issues and liberalism in social-policy damages society. And she was much more the architect of her own downfall than Rishi Sunak. But I’ll concede that she’s on the right lines when it comes to matters of economics. I’ll make a point of following some of your helpful links. It’s good to see that she’s still thinking about policy; not enough politicians do, these days.
April 15, 2023
If she had appointed you as chancellor she would still be PM. Why was she so stupid as to appoint the imbecile Kwarteng – who had utterly failed at BEIS? She clearly has very poor judgement and therefore I am not going to waste time listening to what she has to say. She only has herself to blame. I mean, Kwarteng – really? Madness!!
April 15, 2023
She appointed Kwarteng because she hasn’t a clue and that’s the truth – and if anyone thinks her judgement on these matters will improve if she is given a second chance? well good luck with that
April 15, 2023
Truss would have been good. I have reservations about Kwarteng as Chancellor though. Too many people are appointed based on personal relationships rather than competence.
The Tories’ only chance at a GE is to get her back as PM soon, with time to show results.
The ballot paper for the local council elections arrived this week and I was disappointed to see only the 4 usual suspect parties represented. I cannot vote for an overtly socialist party, nor can I vote for the Conservatives under Sunak/Hunt. Sad to see no Reform UK candidate. So I won’t vote. I realise that there’s a risk of a bunch of widgets taking over the council, but we desperately need to show our feelings about the machinations that the parliamentary Conservative party has been engineering in this parliament. The degree of infiltraton is shocking, even to the point that their own local associations are saying that the MP lied to them in order to be selected, then showed their true colours…
And when the association tries to de-select them, CCHQ changes who is given a vote, holds the vote at 10am in an unusual place… and gets them re-selected. Where was this new guy Lee Anderson while all this was going on?
Truss would need to come back and remove the whip from 200-250 MPs to get a Conservative govt in place. Which is why it won’t happen – a new party is needed.
April 15, 2023
Yes. On the whole Liz Truss is correct. I wonder why it is not being said and heard in the UK.
April 15, 2023
Such a shame she’s being allowed out in public. There is a danger some people might take her seriously
April 15, 2023
“An unprovoked invasion of a free democracy” – free democracies are not created by coups d’etat orchestrated by the US State department. 14,000 citizens of Dombass were murdered by the Kiev regime and two and a half million citizens of Ukraine fled to Russia and are still living there following the coup in 2014.
Why would Europe be better off with expensive US gas when it should be able to buy cheap Russian gas available on the same continent? We are now experiencing massive inflation of food and energy costs as a result of US warmongering.
We need to come to terms with the Belt and Road and the continuing growth of China because both are going to happen anyhow. We live on the Eurasian continent; we do not live in the USA so we should prioritise what is beneficial for Europe, not the USA. The first priority is a negotiated peace in Ukraine without the involvement of the USA.
April 23, 2023
Ambition is good as long as backed up by talent and not about being selfish.
And my argument isn’t so much about what she says but that she says it with no conviction. She’s just parroting stuff that she thinks will further her career.