Liz Truss - The New Iron Lady
Penny Mordaunt has been eliminated in the Tory leadership race, following a vile smear campaign against her in the Tory press.
Once again, Liz Truss and the multi-millionaire, little Rishi Sunak, are now vying for the votes of ageing, white, middle-class, pro-hanging, Tory Party members, who will decide who is the next Conservative Prime Minister of the UK.
Boris Johnson's former hatchet man, Dominic Cummings, says Truss will make a worse Prime Minister than Boris Johnson and is a "truly useless Remainer." He described Truss as: "about as close to properly crackers as anybody I've met in Parliament." Since she became the Foreign Secretary for Britain, Truss (46), has hardly distinguished herself.
During talks with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, she appeared not to know the difference between the Baltic and the Black Sea. She was also humiliated by Lavrov, who asked her if she recognised Russian sovereignty over the regions of Voronezh and Rostov. Truss said that Britain didn't recognise Russian sovereignty in these regions, and had to be told that they already belonged to Russia. Another gaffe was when she said that she supported British people going to the Ukraine to fight the Russians. The Foreign Office had to issue a statement saying it urged British citizens not to go. Two British citizens, Aiden Aslin, and Shaun Pinner, are now under sentence of death for fighting in the Ukraine.
A free-market ideologue, Truss is associated with the Thatcherite-leaning Free Enterprise group of Conservatives, who wrote the book 'Britannia Unchained'. The group argued that Britain needed to learn lessons from the tiger economies of the Far East, like China and Singapore. They wrote:
"The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors and businessmen, the British are more interested in football and music."
Truss was severely criticised for her recent comments about Roundhay School, which she attended in the prosperous leafy suburbs of Leeds. She said she saw "children who failed and were let down by low expectations."
Peter Oborne, the respected Conservative author and journalist, believes Truss is "horrifically out of her depth" and described her as a "dangerous joke.'
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