Liz Truss tells CPAC UK is ‘failing’ and needs Maga-style movement to save it (www.theguardian.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 12:36
https://lemmy.world/post/25829195

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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annoyed_onion@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 12:49 next collapse

Is an actual lettuce.

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Feb 12:51 next collapse

Whats the counter argument from the opposition; Lettuce, you have the mic.

kaitco@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 15:52 collapse

I love that this is her actual legacy! 😂

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Feb 17:30 collapse

lettuce with googly eyes, staring motherfuckerly

Flamekebab@piefed.social on 20 Feb 12:53 next collapse

Conservatives wanting change. Hmmm.

MonsterMonster@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:07 next collapse

Would that be the same changes that Liz Truss put forward that nose-dived the bonds market by announcing unplanned tax cuts?

MonsterMonster@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:16 next collapse

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.

palordrolap@fedia.io on 20 Feb 14:26 collapse

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...

cabron_offsets@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:17 next collapse

Piss off, cunt.

Foni@lemm.ee on 20 Feb 13:08 next collapse

Liz Truss giving advice on power is a joke in itself

ThePyroPython@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:20 next collapse

I’d rather listen to the other lettuce that didn’t wilt.

NOT_RICK_SANCHEZ@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:39 next collapse

Why is it that when conservatives want change they only think of torching everything to the ground?

ReCursing@feddit.uk on 20 Feb 14:00 collapse

Because they’re not conservatives, they’re radical regressives

Soup@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 14:23 collapse

You just said the same thing twice.

TingoTenga@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:39 next collapse

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.

HikingVet@lemmy.ca on 20 Feb 13:45 next collapse

Eh, to much logistics and the likelihood of some dipshit trying to save them.

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 20 Feb 15:12 next collapse

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.

The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net on 20 Feb 16:16 collapse

Sean Lock had a similar thought.

He suggested calling it “Nazi Island”, but as one commenter mentioned “Isle Hitler” is probably a better name.

Coldcell@sh.itjust.works on 20 Feb 13:44 next collapse

The problem for Truss chasing populist politics like Trump is that no one, ABSOLUTELY no one likes the insufferable idiot.

tal@lemmy.today on 20 Feb 13:48 next collapse

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.

ReCursing@feddit.uk on 20 Feb 13:59 collapse

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.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 20 Feb 15:01 collapse

That’d be terrible for the Thames.

ReCursing@feddit.uk on 20 Feb 15:30 collapse

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

DrSleepless@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 14:41 next collapse

Liz Truss can go eat a chainsaw

Krompus@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 15:35 collapse

RIP AND TEAR

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 15:01 next collapse

CPAC UK??

That’s the saddest thing I’ve read all day. And that’s after the concentration camp story.

nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca on 20 Feb 15:02 next collapse

“LOOK AT ME!!!” said the irrelevant person.

riodoro1@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 15:59 next collapse

Exactly the thing I wanted to say. If shes so desperate for attention maybe she should jump in front of traffic.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 16:04 collapse

Person… person… sorry, all I’m seeing in that photo is a lettuce.

Jhex@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 16:44 collapse

Ptfff the lettuce has more value

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one on 20 Feb 18:32 collapse

The lettuce keeps going up in value compared to Truss and the Conservative Party.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 20 Feb 15:32 next collapse

i could be a queen

Liz truss

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 20 Feb 15:50 next collapse

52nd state?

/s

psx_crab@lemmy.zip on 20 Feb 15:59 next collapse

Says the person that lose to a lettuce.

circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org on 20 Feb 16:10 next collapse

It was definitely failing under Liz Truss. Then things got better when she fucked off.

Akasazh@feddit.nl on 20 Feb 16:40 next collapse

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

Tronn4@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 17:01 next collapse

Dear UK. don’t fall for this

TheFriar@lemm.ee on 20 Feb 19:08 collapse

The UL has had plenty of far right fucks vying for an grasping power for a while. UKIP, for one.

rivan@lemm.ee on 20 Feb 17:44 next collapse

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

b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Feb 19:24 next collapse

Yeah since that’s going so well for America you fucking idiot loser.

KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de on 20 Feb 19:57 next collapse

And it works. Because schools suck at teaching and people talk less with each other.

wanderwisley@lemm.ee on 20 Feb 20:02 next collapse

Hey kiddos look it’s the British cabbage.

pyre@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 20:16 next collapse

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 ?

tanisnikana@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 20:17 next collapse

Didn’t she kill the queen with that terrible curtsy and handshake?

Bytemeister@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 20:25 next collapse

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.

YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca on 20 Feb 22:45 next collapse

I mean makes sense that she gets her knickers in a twist when trump calls himself the king of New England

FosterMolasses@leminal.space on 21 Feb 08:41 collapse

I thought she was! 😂

commander@lemmings.world on 20 Feb 21:09 next collapse

They still haven’t learned?

sirico@feddit.uk on 20 Feb 21:23 next collapse

Can the Tuffton street lettuce just fuck off into the sunset

ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk on 20 Feb 22:04 next collapse

Cause the U.K. did so well under the Tories, particularly her.

YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca on 20 Feb 22:44 collapse

The cabbage did a better job

bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Feb 23:02 next collapse

Lettuce calm down

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 21 Feb 03:35 collapse

Niiiiiice

Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de on 20 Feb 23:17 next collapse

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.

DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee on 20 Feb 23:26 next collapse

Why do these mongs always wear red? I imagine it’s because it triggers their followers’ oversized amygdalas but haven’t seen that specific study…

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 05:07 next collapse

“So, in order to advance our political agenda we need echo chamber rednecks with affinity to nazi ideology.”

“Are we the bad guys?”

Aconite@lemmy.ca on 21 Feb 05:12 next collapse

Fuck off, Lettuce Lady.

FosterMolasses@leminal.space on 21 Feb 08:40 collapse

Nazis aren’t ladies, ladies have class.

Just some evil lettuce woman

P1nkman@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 05:26 next collapse

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.

Saleh@feddit.org on 21 Feb 06:15 next collapse

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.

match@pawb.social on 21 Feb 06:42 next collapse

sic semper lactuca

Don_alForno@feddit.org on 21 Feb 06:44 next collapse

Breaking: The lettuce said she’s full of shit.

FosterMolasses@leminal.space on 21 Feb 08:37 collapse

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.

tankplanker@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 14:36 collapse

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.

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 21 Feb 08:50 next collapse

Tories: “we have destroyed the UK economie for our own benefit. Want to see us do it again?”

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com on 21 Feb 14:09 collapse

oh yeah. here in the us it made us great and now we are being made greatererererer. so much winning it hurts my behind.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 21 Feb 14:15 collapse

I am so sick of winning…