Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Liz truss has given a speech in Washington - "the Deep state blocked my mandate" Rubbish!" video.
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Your words of wisdom are a balm to my troubled spirit in these unsettling times. I am grateful that you take the time to talk to us and offer an alternative perspective to the, “mainstream,” (a term I use advisedly in this case) norm.
Using Johnson’s connections, Truss has hit the money making circuit, apparently not thinking about what she actually planned to say, almost until the moment she got to the podium. There was a moment when she referred to the US Constitution and our Magna Carta, adding something like, “and there are many such documents I could name.” An awkward, if brief, pause followed during which I just WISHED that someone shouted out, “Can you really, Liz? Go on then? Name just one?”
But what alarmed me was that she was really pushing that Neo-Liberal agenda, from the, “think tanks,” that she belongs to (who are probably the source of her scripts?) and stating that she plans to stay in politics for that, “cause,” alone.
To me, her speech sounded like an advertisement. “I am available, along with all of my Westminster connections, for Lobby work and setting up private meetings,” was my translation.
We are increasingly creating a false sense of class in Britain, like the old Tudor notion of the, “worthy,” “impotent,” poor (which are, by design, very few in number) whilst everyone else must be seen as, “unworthy,” or, “indolent.” This seems to be born from a sense that the wealthy are directly threatened by the growing numbers of, “have nots,” so long as they remain enfranchised, educated and having access to accurate information. And the blatancy with which Britain’s elites are actively working to take away those three vital tools of democracy seems, to me at least, to be on the increase.
Every time I hear the term, “woke,” from the mouth of a far right hack like Cruella Braverman or Liz Truss, I feel it is a deliberate attempt to define a separation between, “them and us,” in direct opposition to the role and responsibility of a politician, who’s job is meant to be concerned with uniting the people.
I am unmoved by Truss’s bandwagoning attempts at baiting better people than herself in society, with such deliberate hostility she spits at those whom she meant to lead. That’s just like being harangued by an angry toddler who feels personally slighted at being made to go to bed. But I am disturbed that overtly divisive rhetoric is considered acceptable from this, “political,” party, which is so gleefully breaking its social contract by attacking its own population, rather than attempting to reason with them and calm their anger. When a party is all out of political ideas and has no longer got any, “ideology,” to lay claim to (other than an extremist version of neo-liberalism which they know the general public finds as unrealistic and immoral as proposing we become a communist dictatorship) people like Liz Truss are scraped up, from the very bottom of the barrel.
It’s the, “normalisation,” of allowing leaders to be actively hostile and baiting of those in their charge which is truly unprecedented in British politics. I only hope it becomes recognised as a key reason for their defeat at the next election?
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When a political party has internally abandoned all pretensions of ideology and simply wishes to create a neo-liberal free-for-all, wild west, society of haves and have nots, this is what you get.
All of the crooks, who are considered, “talented,” at stealing Britain’s wealth, resources, industries, lands, etc. and selling it all off for personal profit, are put to work to do exactly that. So putting people in the shop window, as a front for the organisation, comes almost as an after thought. Liz Truss was scraped up from the very bottom of their barrel, to distract the press and their party members and keep them busy, while the elites who fund the whole operation from their, “think tank,” lobby groups could get on with the business of instructing, “our,” elected representatives on exactly what they’re going to do whilst in office.
That’s why truss is like a ghost of Victorian Christmas past, blaming the, “woke,” for her downfall, even though anyone with half a brain would tell her that the banks, financial institutions and back-stabbers of her own party were the ones who put an ignominious end to her idiocy, whilst the, “woke,” (whomever TF they are?) had no say in the matter.
That’s why they like Sunack for now. He’s quieter, not deliberately baiting the public (whom it is his, “job,” to, “unite,”) like Cruella Braverman is . . . at least not so much as people like her and Truss are.
And, because he’s willing to do unprecedentedly anti-democratic stuff, like locking the press OUT of their upcoming party conference, allowing them to train up their worker bees, our MP’s, in their dark arts in a shameless, unvarnished manner without ANY public scrutiny. Knowing they will to lose their mandate next year, they have about one year to clean us out completely, in an Everything Must Go sale of Britain’s best and brightest hopes.
They don’t want the likes of you and me paying attention to any of that!? So, they’ll have Braverman spew out a bit more borderline racism at about the same time as their conference, putting on a good dog and pony show for us all to get distracted by, while they’re going through your pockets (and any pockets you may own in the future) to clean them out.
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