Liz Truss tells CPAC UK is ‘failing’ and needs Maga-style movement to save it
Summary
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that Britain is “failing” and called for a UK version of Trump’s “MAGA” movement to push change.
Truss, who was prime minister for only 49 days and lost her seat in last year’s election, has become a marginal figure in British politics but found support at CPAC, which now embraces Trump-style populism.
The conference featured right-wing figures from Hungary, Brazil, and the U.S., including Steve Bannon, who promoted deep state conspiracy theories.
CPAC leaders condemned globalist organizations like the UN and EU, vowing support for Trump’s return.
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Whats the counter argument from the opposition; Lettuce, you have the mic.
I love that this is her actual legacy! 😂
lettuce with googly eyes, staring motherfuckerly
"LOOK AT ME!!!" said the irrelevant person.
Person... person... sorry, all I'm seeing in that photo is a lettuce.
Ptfff the lettuce has more value
The lettuce keeps going up in value compared to Truss and the Conservative Party.
Exactly the thing I wanted to say. If shes so desperate for attention maybe she should jump in front of traffic.
Would that be the same changes that Liz Truss put forward that nose-dived the bonds market by announcing unplanned tax cuts?
I still love the term Kami-Kwasi.
What a day that was. It would almost be funny if it wasn't still fucking with people's mortgage rates.
Is an actual lettuce.
The problem for Truss chasing populist politics like Trump is that no one, ABSOLUTELY no one likes the insufferable idiot.
Dear UK. don't fall for this
The UL has had plenty of far right fucks vying for an grasping power for a while. UKIP, for one.
Niiiiiice
It's wild to accuse the UK of having a Deep State when Yes, Yes they Do. It's called the Crown. Charles could instantly dismiss parliament at anytime (in theory) so would a MEGA movement be anti-Royalist? Lol
the lady whose career was outlived by a cabbage?
Cabbages can stay good for quite a while. It was a lettuce, the thing that wilts during the car ride back from the store.
Ah, Thats even worse.. and better, story wise, at least.
A cabbage outlived her career lol
Anyone who looks at what is going on in the US and says "that's a functional democracy that we should emulate" should be blocked from holding any office forever.
I thought she was! 😂
Breaking: The lettuce said she's full of shit.
Dude, fuck her. I admit that back when I first moved and UK politics were still rather new to me I couldn't wrap my mind around what she did that was horrible enough to warrant a boot in 40 DAYS. Although I've heard one or two stories since about people losing all their savings that made it make slightly more sense, she always read as just pretty foolish and incompetent to me.
Pushing for MAGA bs in the UK (the most redundant thing I've ever heard) completely upends that assessment of her into being every bit as evil as the American ones. Tory scumbag.
Its very likely that she full believes it, she is that dumb and because her reality fell apart when her economic changes failed so quickly and spectacularly, she has retreated into the full deep state conspiracy bubble.
It wasn't quite so much what she did as the way it was done.
The spending plan looked bad and lack of confidence in it caused a technical issue where pension funds had to make it worse to protect themselves from the consequences, which made it even worse and they had to protect themselves from bigger consequences. But this is boring and not why she had to go imho.
The real problem and cause of the whole lack of confidence was that she got rid of senior people and refused to talk to independent government orgs who are there to check the plan isn't shit.
She removed all the arse covering checks the British government has for budgets thinking she knew better, and as is clear with every mad interview she knows nothing.
Sees the US flushing itself down the toilet. “We need to do that too!”
Good job shit for brains.
Yeah since that’s going so well for America you fucking idiot loser.
Tories: "we have destroyed the UK economie for our own benefit. Want to see us do it again?"
Tory voters "Yes."
Cause the U.K. did so well under the Tories, particularly her.
Liz Truss giving advice on power is a joke in itself
Why is Salad Lady still making public statements? She had her chance and sucked too much, she can retire from politics and do some manual work now.
I'd rather listen to the other lettuce that didn't wilt.
After being out lasted by a lettuce, ousted as PM, then kicked out as an MP you'd think she'd get the message that she's a bit useless.
Sometimes it takes years for this message to even to begin to sink in. Worse, one solitary success through blind luck can undo years of progress on that score.
Source: Uh. I don't like looking in mirrors, but when I do...
Says the person that lose to a lettuce.
Conservatives wanting change. Hmmm.
Liz Truss can go eat a chainsaw
RIP AND TEAR
oh yeah. here in the us it made us great and now we are being made greatererererer. so much winning it hurts my behind.
I am so sick of winning...
Liz Truss is a nazi in the same camp as musk. I know who'll be in front of the firing squad when push comes to shove.
Why is it that when conservatives want change they only think of torching everything to the ground?
Because they're not conservatives, they're radical regressives
You just said the same thing twice.
Didn’t she kill the queen with that terrible curtsy and handshake?
Can the Tuffton street lettuce just fuck off into the sunset
how can this fuckcunt show her face after her ridiculous premiership that didn't even last 5 scaramuccis
also how can she say anything without reporters directly telling her to shut the fuck up ... why is anything she says reported at all ?
We need to suck up and be like Trump/Elon is the new trope of failed and irrelevant politicians in Europe now.
The neoliberal far right FDP party in Germany will likely not make it into the parliament in Sundays election after blocking and blowing up the previous government. As they declined in the polls, they copied and talked more about MAGA, Milei and the like. Meanwhile Musk didnt even bother to reply to their head and former finance minister.
I guess for Truzz it is the same thing. Only thing that worries me, is that these people usually sell themselves to the highest bidder. So someone is paying them for that.
This might just be the time for Volt to swoop in and steal the grindset vote from them.
"So, in order to advance our political agenda we need echo chamber rednecks with affinity to nazi ideology."
"Are we the bad guys?"
I'm so grateful she lends her well-documented incompetence and bewilderingly stupid person to this movement. I can see people having something for Farage (as he is of a particular insufferable-twat-but-at-least-hes-our-twat kind of 'quality')
But I don't think that anyone honestly holds a sliver of respect for Truss.
#teamlettuce
CPAC UK??
That's the saddest thing I've read all day. And that's after the concentration camp story.
OK, I have an idea for a new TV show.
Let's form a club of boomer, anti-democratic, rightwing-extremist, power hungry narcissists, and invite them to a private island and have them get stranded there because the flight authority botched traffic control (due to budget cuts, obviously).
Record it in the style of a reality TV show.
Just rush all the disaster crapitalists into a locked bunker and tell them that the WW3 they played with caused a nuclear apocalypse and let them live the rest of their lives there. You could have putin, trump, elon, thiel, liz, jdvance, all of the dipshits who like to buy bunkers while they play with your lives have to live in close quarters with each other. They deserve each other so much. I hate reality shows, but I'd watch that. Please make it happen.
Sean Lock had a similar thought.
He suggested calling it "Nazi Island", but as one commenter mentioned "Isle Hitler" is probably a better name.
Eh, to much logistics and the likelihood of some dipshit trying to save them.
It was definitely failing under Liz Truss. Then things got better when she fucked off.
Hey kiddos look it’s the British cabbage.
Well I hope she leads it then cause it will surely fail
They still haven't learned?
sic semper lactuca
FUCK no. At least it's coming from truss, who is trying to be relevant. That's all. Anything with her name on it is doomed to fail.
Fuck off, Lettuce Lady.
Nazis aren't ladies, ladies have class.
Just some evil lettuce woman
A part of Trump's politicking has been lying to the public. I'm not sure that you want to do that, whatever freedom it might provide as to policy enactment. I think that that's pretty corrosive to government credibility. Hard to build credibility, easy to damage it, and it's a useful thing to have.
The tories have any credibility? The government have any credibility? Hell, politics in this country has any credibility? Catapult every MP into the Thames, then p[ave the Thames.
That'd be terrible for the Thames.
Many of London's other rivers are underground now, and we could make it a nice scenic walk, or fill it with flowers and make it a bee corridor
52nd state?
/s
And it works. Because schools suck at teaching and people talk less with each other.
One thing I've learned is that if America jumps from a bridge, a good chunk of Europe jumps too.
Is she suing for copyright infringement?
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