Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
OUR MAN REVIEWS HER BOOK Beyond beleaf
Reads Liz Truss’s Tory tome. (It’s okay, he’s recovering)
Then there were the awful indignities of having to organise her own hair and make-up, sending an aide late at night to buy cough medicine and food delivery firm Ocado refusing to believe the SW1 address. Talk about first-world problems.
Palestinians in obliterated, famine-hit Gaza surviving in tents and awaiting humanitarian aid may organise a whip round if copies of the Truss self-pitying book are loaded on to trucks and allowed through Israeli blockades.
Keir Starmer’s dirty tricks team would try to invent Liz Truss if she did not already exist.
As Tory peer Gavin Barwell noted, the last thing any Conservative candidate in May’s local polls or this year’s general election should want is days of headlines in which Truss blames everyone else for her own mistakes. He wrote: “She is the gift that keeps on giving to Labour.”
Somebody who cared about Truss should have told her to stop typing instead of leaving her to produce a book crazier than Nadine Dorries’s attempt to present her hero Johnson as a giant toppled by pygmies.
Truss is the unrepentant author of her own political obituary and the Me-me-me-ism is frightening.
She said: “I don’t care about what ignoramuses in the BBC say.
“If I did, I wouldn’t be a Conservative, I’d be a shape-shifting Conservpeople.”
STALK SHOW ative-in-name-only who was concerned about what people at London dinner parties thought.
“I’m not saying I didn’t do anything wrong. But just some of the ludicrous claims that I’m responsible for economic stagnation. It’s not true, I tried to fix it.” Really?
Russia and China are two threats that in her eyes must be confronted and who does she endorse as the next US President? Donald Trump.
Putin’s useful idiot and NATO’S enemy within. One tinpot tyrant signalling to the invader of Ukraine the US would abandon European countries he might wish to occupy.
Criticising the Treasury, Bank of England and a governor she bizarrely dubs “Rock-a-bye Bailey”, as well as the unaccountable power of casino capitalists, is valid. Left-wing economists recognising a future Labour government will need to overcome fearsome financial buffeting and offer more coherent analysis than the likes of Truss, who worships greed. The service she inadvertently delivered is testing to the point of destruction the politics and economics of the Tory right, 21st-century Thatcherism, Popcons, free market think-tanks, Nigel Farage, Reform UK, and Trump. We have 10 years to save ourselves from them.
Remainer Truss turned diehard Brextremist ludicrously claiming she would have handled Brexit better than Theresa May or Johnson is the final nail in her credibility coffin.
She says: “I get a lot of people saying, ‘You were stitched up, I thought what you were trying to do was right.’ The media does not reflect what a lot of people think. And that’s what I feel.” I can only think she mixes in a tiny incestuous sect of zealots divorced from wider society. Might explain the book, mind.
Which, last night, was fourth on the Amazon best sellers list, just three places behind an air fryer recipe book.
Truss cried just the once in the 49
KEVIN days that shook Britain. Tears flowed as she sacked friend and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in a bid to save herself. She was watching coverage of the Queen’s death, a monarch who advised her to pace herself.
She was one of the last people to see Elizabeth alive, bleating “Why me? Why now?” after she passed away on her second full day as PM. We may ask the same about Truss. Why her? Why now? She was the choice of MPS and activists. So too were her headbanger politics.
She doesn’t rule out returning to No10. That’s unlikely in my view. But she might be in the Cabinet should Rishi Sunak somehow win. Or like-minded Tories – Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick – would keep her flame alive. These politics are impoverishing, divisive and dangerous.
Someone who cares for her should have told her to stop typing ON SELF-PITYING BOOK WRITTEN BY TRUSS