I think the knee jerk anti-Truss fever has a lot to do with sexism and classism, an excuse for rampant misogyny to come out of the closet.
The country obviously feels more comfortable when there is an upper-
middle-class male in charge.
So we all know Truss’s faults, what were her strengths? : well she had more experience than anyone else, having served on front bench with four prime ministers over ten years. Her co-workers trusted her. She was hard working. She got things done. She worked well with the civil service. This was attractive after Boris, but people quickly tired of her non -performative behaviour. Wooden, flat, boring. They remembered how Boris amused and could charm the leg off a donkey…
I’m not a Tory but I had rather hoped they’d have voted for Ben Wallace but he quickly stepped down from the race and backed Truss with whom, as minister of defence, he had worked under when she was foreign secretary. So don’t all go blaming the membership for being unrepresentative and stupid. Sunak was arrogant and patronising , had dual passport, tax dodging wife and was overly privileged. One thing you can certainly say about public schools they teach public speaking which comprehensives rarely do. And it is true that a leader is a performance role.
So I’m irritated how every mistake is now laid at Truss’s feet. Ludicrous. Her mistake was not just giving money to everyone with the energy cap for two years but giving tax cuts to the rich. (Which I agree was stupid politically as there are a lot more poor than rich) The market, who really run the game, were most bothered though by her cap on energy prices across the board for two years. Well that’s been scrapped. Now just six months.
Hunt was hated as minister of health. We’ll see how he goes.
It’s as though people have been brainwashed into accepting ANYTHING as long as it isn’t Liz Truss. Many many women don’t like a woman leader. The times I heard on vox pops uneducated women saying how brainy Sunak was and how stupid she was. I remember one saying she should be a back room girl in a shop. Truss and Sunak both went to Oxford, same degree. Gobsmackingly sexist.
The last two female PM’s left in tears. I hope it doesn’t happen to a third.
PS She was also the first minister to say sex matters in regard to separate facilities for safety and fairness and to defend the rights of women being called mothers. She gets a lot of kudos from me for that.
PPS Apparently Truss hatred is so great that more people believe that the moon landing was a fake than those that support her. Shameful. She doesn’t deserve that. It’s a witch hunt.
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