Fmr. UK Prime Minister Calls for British MAGA-Style Movement

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Liz Truss, the former British prime minister, told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that her country was “failing” and needed a Donald Trump-style “Maga” movement to save it.

Truss was speaking at the rightwing conference at the National Harbor in Maryland on Wednesday, alongside rightwing populists from around the world planning deeper ties and cooperation.

“We now have a major problem in Britain that judges are making decisions that should be made by politicians,” the ex-prime minister said, claiming that the judiciary is “no longer accountable” because of reforms by her predecessor Tony Blair, who gave power to an “unelected bureaucracy”. She continued:

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.

Truss, who was prime minister for only 49 days and lost her seat in last year’s general election, has become an increasingly marginal figure in British politics but found safe harbour at CPAC, a once mainstream conservative gathering that has embraced Trump’s brand of nativist-populism.

 

[Bryn]

Truss is a fucking idiot, ever since that mini-budget debacle that everyone will still remember her for... and chances are it won't happen either, because we're better than that. The people of Scotland, myself included, won't stand for that crap either 😡

 

[Webster]

The people of Scotland, myself included, won't stand for that crap either 😡

How'd that IndyRef go?

 

[Bryn]

You can count yourself lucky that I'm not of the "Yes" camp... and I only made that comment because Scots don't like all that insane right-wing crap and that.

And anyway, on top of my original post, even Farage is smart enough to say that it won't work here, probably because we're a liberal democracy or something... and that Trump is deeply unpopular in the UK also so, the joke's on her then.

 

[MamaFrankie]

Liz Truss is an idiot but I agree with her that Tony Blair started the rot.

 

[Webster]

Tony Blair started the rot.

Tony Blair was to the UK what Bill Clinton was to Democrats here in the U.S. - the only person who could steer that listless ship (Labour there, Dems' here) to victory. The only difference was that Tony Blair didn't have an opposition Congress holding his feet to the fire the way Newt Gingrich and Company did to Bill Clinton.

 

[Webster]

And anyway, on top of my original post, even Farage is smart enough to say that it won't work here

Given how things are going at present in the land of Two-Tier Kier, I don't know if I'd want to make that kind of bet.

The way things are at present, Labour might be next on the political thumping list; the only question would be "Will the Tories deliver it or will Reform UK do it?"

 

[MamaFrankie]

Tony Blair is a horrid man.

 

[Webster]

Tony Blair is a horrid man.

So too, for the record, are most Labour Party leaders in the UK - (before Blair) Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, Margaret Beckett, (after Blair) Gordon Brown, Jeremy Corbyn and of course, the current Prime Minister, Two-Tier Kier.

That said, Frankie, most of the Tory leaders - Margaret Thatcher notwithstanding - were just as horrid as Blair was (especially David Cameron, who fell for Nigel Farage & Arron Banks's malarkey of a Brexit referendum idea (and the disasters that resulted from it). Thanks to those two, the future of relations btwn Britain and Europe are about as toxic as one can imagine at the moment (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong there).

 

[MamaFrankie]

I used to like David Cameron, Webster, then he blotted his proverbial copybook by implementing the bedroom tax and raising the retirement age for women from 60 to 65 (it's now 66 for everyone). I even named a laptop Cameron in his honour. Have to admit I loved Margaret Thatcher though (and have actually met her).

Never liked Labour, I always considered them dangerous.