45 Days: Liz Truss and the Establishment Class
The former Prime Minister's recent conversion to Trumpism is an important moment
On October 20th 2022 Liz Truss became the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history. In power for just 45 days, she was forced to resign following her first and only mini-budget. In stepped COVID Chancellor, arch-globalist and Roland Rat impersonator Rishi Sunak.
The Establishment line was that Truss and her equally short-lived Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng had made a catastrophic economic blunder which spooked the financial markets and caused a run on the pound. The Guardian reported on her resignation address in front of Number 10 Downing Street with these words:
“It follows a turbulent 45 days in office during which Truss’s mini-budget crashed the markets, she lost two key ministers and shed the confidence of almost all her own MPs.”
The entire mainstream messaging on the Truss period was that a complete incompetent had somehow got hold of the steering wheel and immediately driven the British economy off a cliff.
It was an explanation that stank to high heaven, whatever your opinion of Liz Truss.
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