Liz Truss will highlight the tragedy of identity politics
Liz Truss is a free market acolyte who hated BoJos windfall taxes on obscene profits because she is pro corporate profit.
Ideologically she is Margaret Thatcher on meth combined with all the ill deserved smugness of Tony Blair.
She will be a disaster for the UK and her free market solutions will cause a crippling wave of unemployment at a time of 13% inflation and energy prices exploding beyond peoples ability to pay.
She is currently being touted as some kind of diversity champion because no one in her top 4 are white men.
This shallow analysis highlights the tragedy of identity politics where the representation of diversity eclipses all else.
Two of the four are right wing lunatics who are as ideologically hard right as Truss…
Kwasi Kwarteng: free marketeer and Truss’s ideological soulmate becomes chancellor
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…their diversity provides no progressive insights to policy, because their wealth and privilege blot out class.
The same way a Parliament full of property owners never challenge homelessness in NZ.
The true demarcation of power in a capitalist democracy is between the 1% richest plus their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us.
This tory diversity simply represents the top 10% parroting free market dogma, it provides nothing towards insight of intersectionist power dynamics.
My thoughts are their combined free market experiment will fail horribly in light of looming economic calamity and that the Party will hilariously return to Boris Johnson in terror as they face annihilation at the Polls, or directly after it.
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We do not need to look far to see a government that promises at lot especially to those at the bottom of the heap and then do nothing.
One difference being Liz Truss is a Thatcher fan, meaning she won’t even pretend to care ( slightly different from our Tory brigade as National in opposition pretend to be shocked/care when they don’t)
History tells us that once a woman such as this gets into power, she’s likely to stay in power for as long as she can. Personally I feel Liz Truss’s appointment comes at an unfortunate time in world affairs and I, like millions others, don’t wish to see the UK economy dragged down. Time will tell.
Truss is going to fix the energy crises. Nz government should take notes on how she will do this.
Is she going to issue everyone with an EV, dig up more coal or install a government solar panel on each house.
Liz Truss may be all of those things and the top four positions on the Cabinet show the shallowness of virtue signalling identity politics.
However Truss does know what a women in. Adult human female. Sometimes small mercies are all we have
Please small men step forward, and sign up, for mercy’s sake. Your country needs you.
What a start for the trussed, vowing friendship to Ukraine.
It’s an echo of Thatcher wittering on to Gorbachev RIP, that the nuclear stand-off was good for peace while he gazed at her enthusiastic naivety gobsmacked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18V6Y3HL38 2m trailer of Meeting Gorbachev
2019 BBC 8.43m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVsKoQXATY
Werner Herzog Dec 2019 talking about making his documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfOLq8XmqGU
Nice to compare her to Thatcher, Medvedev has done the same, saying Truss is trying to imitate Margaret Thatcher, “without having even 5% of her abilities. ”
Britain had Wilson when I was young, since then with the exception of Thatcher (who I both despised for her economics and respected for her belligerent handling of chauvinist opponents) in terms of character and capability all British PMs have been a benighted bunch of mediocrities. And this is the third Conservative female PM, the Left have failed to produce any. That is damning.
The right is simply using left-wing ideology against them. By being “diverse” (which is seemingly all the modern left cares about), they shield themselves from criticism. Just employ a hard-right trans, a hard-right lesbian, a hard-right person of colour, and a hard-right cripple and the left is silenced for fear of demonising their non-existent “minority voters” that they think they are pandering to and their base will vote for.
True Martyn. Truss will be a disaster for all but the rich listers. Particularly nasty is her deputy Therese Coffey -an extreme anti-abortion hardliner.
Then she would be a perfect fit for National or ACT here. Narcissistic, and separatist.
Truss trying for the trope of wallpaper camouflage? Wearing a suit a similar colour to the seat she aims for so she appears to be the natural occupant? And Royal Purple seems to be the colour. How far can this one go?
A black Tory is still a Tory. An Indian Tory is still a Tory.
End of the day, the values of the non-white immigrant community overlap more with the Convervatives, rather than Labour. They came from countries with no social safety nets, generally have the attitude of ‘no work, no eat’, plus they are more or less homophobic, patriarchal and are anti-abortion.
Perhaps it’s the left who should “build the wall” after all.
The left are working on that millsy only they misunderstood the idea, thinking there was a typo. They have been busy on ‘Build the wail!’
As for Liz, she is like most Tory women, OK to look at until she opens her mouth.
Well, when a political system nullifies the one truly decent politician to come its way – Jeremy Corbyn – no wonder you get a plethora of dangerous, entitled, useful idiots to front the political circus.
Shaping up to be a Thatcher 2.0
Only difference, is she is a bit easier on the eyes. Only just.
Shaping up to be a Thatcher 2.0
Only difference is, she is a bit easier on the eyes. Only just.
Truss doesn’t possess the IQ of one of Thatchers handbags.