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"Who is Liz Truss?" is an acceptable answer to this question.
So, for those who don't know, she was Prime Minister of the UK relatively recently, and has the honour of being our shortest serving Prime Minister. Her time was an absolute disaster, highlighted by pushing through a budget which was absolutely bonkers and scared the markets, causing a knock off effect economically that we're still feeling the effect of, and which caused her to resign. It was a surprise that she became PM anyway because, honestly, she's not very bright and not a very good politician. She's made her career by kind of latching on to people who are moving in the right direction, and saying the things that those with influence (whoever they may be from time to time) want to hear. She has very few actual principles of her own.
As demonstrated by what she's said since she's tried her hand in the US. She's been hanging around your Conservative conferences for a little while now. She's turned into a Trump ally (despite once upon a time very much holding Democrat consistent views), is spouting conspiracy theories quite regularly, and has done things like shared a stage with Steve Bannon. When he praised Tommy Robinson (a notorious right wing thug over here), she stayed silent, which is almost as baffling to me as the conspiracy theory stuff. She now blames the Deep State for her downfall (as opposed to her utterly batshit economic policy) and is trying to reinvent herself. But really all she's doing is reinventing herself as someone who says increasingly extreme and stupid things.
Anyway, her approval ratings are so low over here. They're comfortably under 10% consistently. It's a source of national shame that she was ever PM, let alone that she's now turned into a proper right wing nutter. Are you guys even aware of her?
So, for those who don't know, she was Prime Minister of the UK relatively recently, and has the honour of being our shortest serving Prime Minister. Her time was an absolute disaster, highlighted by pushing through a budget which was absolutely bonkers and scared the markets, causing a knock off effect economically that we're still feeling the effect of, and which caused her to resign. It was a surprise that she became PM anyway because, honestly, she's not very bright and not a very good politician. She's made her career by kind of latching on to people who are moving in the right direction, and saying the things that those with influence (whoever they may be from time to time) want to hear. She has very few actual principles of her own.
As demonstrated by what she's said since she's tried her hand in the US. She's been hanging around your Conservative conferences for a little while now. She's turned into a Trump ally (despite once upon a time very much holding Democrat consistent views), is spouting conspiracy theories quite regularly, and has done things like shared a stage with Steve Bannon. When he praised Tommy Robinson (a notorious right wing thug over here), she stayed silent, which is almost as baffling to me as the conspiracy theory stuff. She now blames the Deep State for her downfall (as opposed to her utterly batshit economic policy) and is trying to reinvent herself. But really all she's doing is reinventing herself as someone who says increasingly extreme and stupid things.
Anyway, her approval ratings are so low over here. They're comfortably under 10% consistently. It's a source of national shame that she was ever PM, let alone that she's now turned into a proper right wing nutter. Are you guys even aware of her?
