Ignorant Truss branded people outside London as not ‘hard workers’
Trash talker: if Liz Truss thinks people in the UK don’t work hard simply to make a living, she needs to get her head out of whatever dark cavity it has been inhabiting for the last 12 years.
This woman is a disgrace to the United Kingdom. She should not be in politics, let alone in the running to be prime minister.
I refer, of course, to Liz Truss, a co-author of the infamous Britannia Unchained, a book that claimed the British were “among the worst idlers in the world”.
She has disowned that passage, even though her status as co-author suggests endorsement of it, laying the blame for it on Dominic Raab, who at the time it was published was among the worst idlers in Parliament, with one of the lowest attendance records of any MP. He’s now Deputy Prime Minister, indicating that scum rises.
But she can’t disown the words she spoke in a leaked audio recording from a few years ago, when she was Chief Secretary to the Treasury:
In the clip, leaked to The Guardian, Ms Truss said those outside London were less likely to be hard workers.
She said British workers as a whole also lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, specifically those in China.
Ms Truss said it was “partly a mindset or attitude thing” and there seemed little desire to change the working culture so the UK could become more prosperous.
At the time she spoke those words, the UK’s economy was the second most prosperous in Europe. The money just didn’t trickle down to the people who created it (the workers) due to Tory policies.
This Writer can’t speak for large masses of UK-based workers; I can only really discuss my own experience of working here.
So let’s see: before I set up Vox Political, I spent three and a half years working for a local daily newspaper while also acting as carer for Mrs Mike who (famously, to long-term readers of This Site) has long-term illnesses and disabilities.
I have continued to act as her carer throughout the nearly 11 years that VP has been running. At its height, the site had more than 178,000 hits in a single day and I would suggest achieving that required a certain application.
During the time I was caring for Mrs Mike and running Vox Political, I have also helped run two charities, being vice-chair of one for several years, and I am currently the chair of another, that runs a cultural festival here in Mid Wales.
I spent two years on a successful campaign to force the Tory government to publish figures showing that thousands of people who had claimed sickness benefits but were thrown off them had subsequently died, indicating that the decision to sanction them was wrong.
I also had to work hard to prevent the Department for Work and Pensions from cutting off Mrs Mike’s benefit. Its representatives eventually admitted that they had mis-categorised her.
Oh, and I’ve also been a member of several local bands. Well, everybody has to relax somehow – and local audiences seem to enjoy the music.
Does that little list suggest a “lack of application” to you?
If I was feeling as uncharitable as Truss, I would suggest the reason she has spent so long sh*t-talking working people is because she’s had her head stuck where the sun doesn’t shine.
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Coincidently the worst MP idler attendance-wise was another author of that odious book, Priti Patel.
They are all self serving and London-Centric and seemingly unaware that the farther away from London you go, the higher the community spirit.
Ask a London Plumber or Builder to cut you a break on charges as you’re struggling and then ask the same of, say a Birmingham or Yorkshire one and I’ll bet you there’s a world of a difference in their replies.
I’ll also bet there’s a world of difference in the hours they work and their pay rates.
I suspect, after 50 years of working in several industries, that Truss comments can only refer to British managers who, with a few honorable exceptions, are dreadful.
The British: ‘lack the skill and application of foreign workers, especially those in China’
Well they would….We got rid of child labour in the late 1800’s…although I’m sure truss & rees-smog & others would love to see them reinstated.