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Samizdata quote of the day – Liz Truss strikes back It comes after Mrs Badenoch wrote in The Telegraph that Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves were making “even bigger mistakes” than Ms Truss and had not learnt the lessons of her mini-budget.
Responding, Ms Truss says: “It is disappointing that instead of serious thinking like this, Kemi Badenoch is instead repeating spurious narratives. I suspect she is doing this to divert from the real failures of 14 years of Conservative government in which her supporters are particularly implicated. It was a fatal mistake not to repeal Labour legislation like the Human Rights Act because the modernisers wanted to be the ‘heirs to Blair’. Huge damage was done to our liberties through draconian lockdowns and enforcement championed by Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings.”
– Liz Truss as quoted in an article by Daniel Martin (£)
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I would like to say
but it might well be misunderstood as an off-colour instruction.
There’s not a syllable of that article I don’t agree with.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win.
Of course that requires you to prepare for such reactions and not give in. I rather suspect that the Conservatives are beyond rescue though.
Which reminds me – memo to Nigel :
In the event that you continue to be lucky enough to have opponents as clueless and hopeless and contemptible as the 2025 Labour and Tories, so lucky that you actually win a majority in 2029, please note that the Bank of England (as well as all other parts of the apparat) will be trying to bring you down asap, as they did with Ms Truss.
On the morning of your appearance at No.10 make sure you let everyone know what the apparat will be doing, especially the Bank of England, as sunlight will deter them. For a week or two.
Since the BoE is quite happy to go along with the current government I can assume getting rid of Truss was political.