“We’ve got a new kind of economics in the west. It’s called ‘wokenomics’.
“I wanted to cut taxes, reduce the administrative state, take back control as people talked about in the Brexit referendum. What I did face was a huge establishment backlash and a lot of it actually came from the state itself.”
She continued: “What has happened in Britain over the past 30 years is power that used to be in the hands of politicians has been moved to quangos and bureaucrats and lawyers so what you find is a democratically elected government actually unable to enact policies.”
Truss was interrupted and asked to explain the meaning of “quango”. She replied: “A quango is a quasi non-governmental organisation. In America you call it the administrative state or the deep state. But we have more than 500 of these quangos in Britain and they run everything.”
She went on to list the Environment Agency, Office for Budget Responsibility, Bank of England and Judicial Appointments Commission.
[She expressed a distaste](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/liz-trusss-republican-love-in-at-cpac/) for ‘RINOs’ (Republicans in Name Only) and said that in Britain, we call them ‘Chinos,’ meaning ‘Conservatives in name only.’ Westminster political reporters I spoke to said they’d only ever heard Truss use this term – and in a different context, meaning ‘Chancellor in name only.’
There’s all this stuff about one guy talking rubbish about Khan, what about this fekkin trout?
Genuinely though is it not wild we have a former PM talking about giving her group a “bigger political bazooka” at the same event you have religious fanatics talking about destroying democracy, and somehow instead all the focus is on whether or not Labour have been taken over by Islamists or something fucking insane like that?
A lot of onion eaters in the comments already. God help us.
I love her the gift that keeps giving. I hope she gives more of these ‘insightful’ speeches, so we can all remember that this is what the tories are lunatic deranged larping magats.
I’m all for scaling the state back but why do I get a bad feeling about her saying a “bigger political bazooka”?
While I wish this were true, its surely not – correct?
“the free market that we deregulated is owned and run by the left wing woke deep state” wasnt on my 2024 bingo card.
She’s so far gone she’ll come back with gold sneakers
There’s a big part of me which hopes this moron never fades away from public view , so we always have a reminder just how bad the Tories can get. My house sale fell through because of this twat.
She’s not wrong though.
These organisations do have a lot of influence especially financially, you’re an idiot to think otherwise. You think the likes of BlackRock in the US can’t sway government decisions lmao?
When Brexit was voted for you had the likes of the BoE dragging their heels which gave A) the EU the ammunition they needed and B) the remainers great satisfaction in thinking brexit was a huge mistake however had they just got on with it instead of crying for years we would’ve been more than fine now.
I legit thought the gov did something good for a change then I saw the satire tag
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As much a Liz is embarrassing this style of article is no less so
“Conservatives are now operating in what is a hostile environment and we essentially need a bigger bazooka in order to be able to deliver,” [Truss said](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/22/liz-truss-cpac-republican) in a 15-minute speech at a gathering in the U.S.
“We’ve got a new kind of economics in the west. It’s called ‘wokenomics’.
“I wanted to cut taxes, reduce the administrative state, take back control as people talked about in the Brexit referendum. What I did face was a huge establishment backlash and a lot of it actually came from the state itself.”
She continued: “What has happened in Britain over the past 30 years is power that used to be in the hands of politicians has been moved to quangos and bureaucrats and lawyers so what you find is a democratically elected government actually unable to enact policies.”
Truss was interrupted and asked to explain the meaning of “quango”. She replied: “A quango is a quasi non-governmental organisation. In America you call it the administrative state or the deep state. But we have more than 500 of these quangos in Britain and they run everything.”
She went on to list the Environment Agency, Office for Budget Responsibility, Bank of England and Judicial Appointments Commission.
[She expressed a distaste](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/liz-trusss-republican-love-in-at-cpac/) for ‘RINOs’ (Republicans in Name Only) and said that in Britain, we call them ‘Chinos,’ meaning ‘Conservatives in name only.’ Westminster political reporters I spoke to said they’d only ever heard Truss use this term – and in a different context, meaning ‘Chancellor in name only.’
There’s all this stuff about one guy talking rubbish about Khan, what about this fekkin trout?
Genuinely though is it not wild we have a former PM talking about giving her group a “bigger political bazooka” at the same event you have religious fanatics talking about destroying democracy, and somehow instead all the focus is on whether or not Labour have been taken over by Islamists or something fucking insane like that?
A lot of onion eaters in the comments already. God help us.
I love her the gift that keeps giving. I hope she gives more of these ‘insightful’ speeches, so we can all remember that this is what the tories are lunatic deranged larping magats.
I’m all for scaling the state back but why do I get a bad feeling about her saying a “bigger political bazooka”?
While I wish this were true, its surely not – correct?
“the free market that we deregulated is owned and run by the left wing woke deep state” wasnt on my 2024 bingo card.
She’s so far gone she’ll come back with gold sneakers
There’s a big part of me which hopes this moron never fades away from public view , so we always have a reminder just how bad the Tories can get. My house sale fell through because of this twat.
She’s not wrong though.
These organisations do have a lot of influence especially financially, you’re an idiot to think otherwise. You think the likes of BlackRock in the US can’t sway government decisions lmao?
When Brexit was voted for you had the likes of the BoE dragging their heels which gave A) the EU the ammunition they needed and B) the remainers great satisfaction in thinking brexit was a huge mistake however had they just got on with it instead of crying for years we would’ve been more than fine now.
I legit thought the gov did something good for a change then I saw the satire tag