You May Be Deceived If You Truss Too Much
Investigating Britain's new Prime Minister Liz Truss...
The Oxford-Westminster pipeline has given us another prime minister.
Elizabeth Mary Truss became PM after being officially asked by the late Queen to form a new government last Tuesday. The former foreign secretary beat fellow WEF-linked Rishi Sunak to replace Boris.
Truss polled 81,326 votes compared to Sunak's 60,399 in an election amongst conservative party members with a high turnout of 82.6%.
Members didn’t really get a fair say in the contest. Conservative MPs choose the candidates. Only until those MPs agree via ballot on two final candidates, do the members get to vote.
(The first ballot amongst MPs went overwhelmingly to ex-Goldman Sachs employee, now-former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak - the personification of a British establishment politico who left the UK labouring under the worst tax burden in 70 years - with 88% of the vote. Perhaps that shows you what state our current “conservative” party is in).
So what of Liz Truss’s recent track record?
Well, Truss was pro-lockdown, voted in favour of jab mandates for health and care home workers, and also endorsed the use of jab passports to access everyday venues.
Ironically, during the leadership debates, she claimed she was anti-lockdown. Maybe she forgot about her repeated calls for constituents to abide by lockdown rules. Who knows?
She also claimed she was always “on the side of doing less” when the issue came up in government meetings. To what extent she argued against the policy we will never know. Her actions, however, suggest she was not exactly principled on the matter. Although she has since foresworn any future lockdowns.
Keeping in line with these elitist inclinations, Truss campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU back in 2016. She even helped launch the Conservative anti-Brexit campaign’s ‘Women for Remain’ group and toured in the Remain “battle bus”.
Truss likewise features on the World Economic Forum website and has previously lauded the “great discussions” she has had there:
As for her stance on green politics, Truss said this August, “I am determined to build on that track record as leader and Prime Minister by doubling down in our drive to hit net zero emissions by 2050 in a Conservative way which helps households and businesses,”.
She added, “I also recommitted to our 2030 goal for halting nature decline, pledged to continue reforming farm payments, help people insulate their homes, champion renewables and new clean technologies.”
This is the type of costly liberal idealism Boris implemented.
On immigration, she differs little compared to her predecessor. For context, the number of illegal migrants that crossed the English Channel in small boats from France in August was more than the entire year of 2020. She has suggested increasing the amount of border force staff by 20%.
Something that is unlikely to solve the problem provided agents still operate more like taxis and human rights lawyers will likely want to protect their trough.
Similar to Boris, she has vowed to ensure the “flame of freedom in Ukraine continues to burn bright”. This likely means she’ll continue sending taxpayer-funded military aid. Something that critics lambasted Boris for as the war exacerbates the inflation crisis already plaguing Europe and elsewhere. There is also the understated moral “conundrum” of financially supporting neo-Nazi battalions fighting on behalf of Ukraine.
On Taiwan, she has adopted the anti-CCP stance. In a keynote speech earlier this year, Truss declared any attempt to invade Taiwan would be a “catastrophic miscalculation.” To further counter Chinese influence, she said will prioritise trade with Commonwealth countries if she became the new prime minister.
As for Truss’s top backers, there is a diverse set of donors.
A recent report from The Guardian revealed that one of the largest donations of £100,000 to her leadership campaign came from Fitriani Hay – the wife of James Hay, a former British Petroleum (BP) senior executive who worked at the company for 27 years. The same oil firm was fined $373m by the US Department of Justice for environmental crimes and committing fraud in 2007. BP also shares a partnership with the World Economic Forum and is striving to meet net-zero goals by 2050. James is now chairman of Dubai-based JMH Group, which deals in “luxury goods and clothing brands and construction firms”. In 2002, it was reported that he acquired a construction company Fosroc, a “British manufacturer of specialised construction chemicals that cater to a range of sectors including commercial, industrial, residential, marine and infrastructure”.
Another top donor who gifted £100,000 to her campaign was Natasha Barnaba. Barnaba is the wife of Alessandro Barnaba, a former JP Morgan chairman who worked for the investment bank for more than 20 years. The same bank has many employees tied to the World Economic Forum and notoriously kept Jeffrey Epstein on as a client after he pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008. JP Morgan was also among the group of big American investment banks blamed for triggering the financial crisis over a decade ago and eventually ordered to pay a then-record $13 billion fine. Alessandro now works as an advisor to the private healthcare firm, Clinova. The company has seen considerable success with their app, which seeks to decrease in-person doctor visits and replace them with online diagnoses and easy-to-order treatments. An operation that some commentators say contributes to misdiagnosis and late diagnosis.
Cambridge-educated investment banker Howard Shore, an “international entrepreneur and philanthropist, whose business interests originated in stockbroking and now span various alternative asset classes including real estate, technology and growth capital”, also donated £50,000 to Truss’s campaign. Howard was one of the earliest financial backers of David Cameron. In 2019, Shore financially backed the then Home Secretary Sajid Javid for leader but later changed his tact, voicing support for Johnson. In the same year, Shore became director of the medical device company Ador Diagnostics. The company owns a “new and exciting Molecular Diagnostics platform that will revolutionise the way small-medium laboratories test for infectious diseases”.
Then we come to Truss’s cabinet.
For Chancellor of the Exchequer, Truss selected Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwasi voted for vaccine passports, mandatory jabs for health and care home workers, and for England’s renewed (second) national lockdown in 2021. He also voted for Theresa May’s “Brexit in name only” deal twice, which kept Britain closely tied to EU regulations, thus directly going against the mandate of the 2016 referendum.
For Home Secretary, Truss selected Suella Braverman. Suella voted for lockdowns, vaccine passports, and mandatory jabs for health and care home workers. She, however, voted against May’s deal on three separate occasions. She has also been a strong advocate of the government’s new plans to deal with the ongoing illegal channel migrant crisis.
For Foreign Secretary, Truss selected James Cleverly. James voted in favour of mandatory jabs for health and care home workers, as well as vaccine passports and the 2021 lockdown. He also voted in favour of May’s Brexit deal on three separate occasions.
All in all, it doesn’t look like the future is particularly promising for freedom-fighting Brits.
Cheese lovers on the other hand…
