Liz Truss’s damp squib conference speech offers no hope to clapping Tories
Pathetic.
Liz Truss delivered a conference speech to the Tory faithful – and that’s the best that can be said about it.
Party members clapped at appropriate moments but it was as though they had been told where to do it, to prevent awkward silences such as we heard during her leadership acceptance speech,
This Writer was live-tweeting all the way through it, so here’s a spot-analysis of what she had to say:
Here's #LizTruss, entering to 'Moving On Up' – but at least she isn't trying to dance like #TheresaMay. Look at that vacuous grin. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
It's good to see the bull standing proudly at the heart of Birmingham, says #LizTruss. Is that because she's about to fill our ears with the waste product that emerges from bulls? #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We've mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II, says #LizTruss, who campaigned for the end of the monarchy. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
I believe that you know best how to spend your own money, says #LizTruss, whose only job is to work out how to spend public money for the best benefit of the nation as a whole. She's abdicating her own authority. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
I remember being presented on a plane with a Junior Air Hostess badge, says #LizTruss to an audience who mostly wish she had chosen that job over politics. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
I was brought up in family that cared about education, says comprehensive schoolgirl #LizTruss, whose policy aim is to cut funding for state education. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
I want to live in a country where women can walk home safely at night, says #LizTruss, who voted to support the cutting of 20,000 police officers from services across the UK. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
I refused to consign our country to decline, says #LizTruss, who triggered the collapse of the Pound and forced the Bank of England to spend £65bn bailing out pension funds after her daft #minibudget. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
"Who voted for this?" says a banner raised by #Greenpeace activists who are swiftly ejected. 80,000 Tory OAPs, it seems. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
I ensured that nobody should have to pay more than £2,500 in energy bills, lies #LizTruss, who capped the unit price on energy. This means bills can still rise about that AVERAGE estimate. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We must level up our country in a Conservative way, says #LizTruss, implying that levelling-up funds will only go to Tory constituencies. Let's see if I'm right. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We need to grow the pie so that everyone gets a bigger slice, says #LizTruss, who wants to cut services to pay for tax cuts to the very rich who will bank the money rather than spending it into the economy. There will be no growth. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We will lower our tax burden, says #LizTruss, who ensured that millionaires will get £55,000 back, while poor people get £157. Big deal. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
Poor/working people will not benefit from #LizTruss's tax cut because her financial cack-handedness has wiped out the tiny benefit she gave them. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We need to be internationally competitive, says #LizTruss, whose newly-discovered support for #Brexit means the UK will never be competitive with foreign nations while she is prime minister. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
I remember my shock opening my first paycheque and seeing how much the tax man had taken out, says #LizTruss whose first paycheque would have come to her under a Conservative government. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We're taking a new approach based on what's worked before, says #LizTruss who supports the failed policy of #trickledowneconomics. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
Investment zones will help us level up across the country, says #LizTruss as she prepares to unleach a new era of unregulated Tory corruption. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We will defeat the separatists who want to pull our Union apart, says #LizTruss, who has done more to alienate the people of Scotland and Northern Ireland in her short time in office than any other UK prime minister. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We'll help you get a mobile phone service wherever you are in the country, says #LizTruss, whose government should have done this more than a decade ago. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
Economic growth… economic growth… economic growth, says #LizTruss, whose economic plans will shrink the UK economy catastrophically. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
Our fantastic health secretary will ensure that everybody can see a GP within two weeks, says #LizTruss, who voted for the target to be expanded to two weeks after a previous Labour government had it down to two DAYS. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We did not stand up to Russia early enough, says #LizTruss, whose brinkwomanship encouraged #VladimirPutin to aim nuclear weapons at the UK. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
Our brilliant home secretary, #LizTruss says of #SuellaBraverman, whose policies of hate towards refugees have been described as "fascist" by level-headed commentators. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
We will stand with our Ukrainian friends, says #LizTruss of people who openly wear Nazi emblems. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
(I'm not saying Ukraine should not be supported against Russian invasion, but let's remember that Ukraine is not the wonderful place it is painted to be by people like #LizTruss). #PoliticsLive #Cons
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
Protest movements prefer protesting to doing, says #LizTruss, who has been forced to reverse one policy already and whose authority to do anything else is also being challenged. Will she succeed in doing anything but harm? #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
Leaders in Scotland and Wales don't understand aspiration and will leave towns and cities facing decline, says #LizTruss, who supported Tory policies that took money from towns & cities that needed it and gave it to affluent Tory areas. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
The real heroes are people who go out to work and aspire to a better life for themselves and their families, says #LizTruss, attacking strikers who are doing just that. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
The status quo is not an option, says #LizTruss, parroting a Tory slogan from years ago. #PoliticsLive #ConservativePartyconference
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) October 5, 2022
So there you have it: nothing worthwhile – just a lot of waffle and more Tory divide-and-rule attacks on what Truss sees as her enemies.
I don’t think she’ll still be in post by Christmas.
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