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No One Saw Liz Truss Coming, Just As She
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Posted By: Judy W., 9/19/2022 11:34:07 AM

In February, then-Foreign Secretary Liz Truss flew to Moscow on a government jet to warn Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine. She donned a Russian-style fur hat—just as her heroine, Margaret Thatcher, did when she visited the Russian capital 35 years ago. Truss posed for a picture on Red Square. She took part in a wreath-laying ceremony. She had a tense meeting with Sergei Lavrov, the cartoonishly nasty Russian foreign minister. And she got nowhere. Lavrov mocked her. So did Britons back home. They called her an imbecile. (Snip) She had built her career without advertising it—maneuvering around the corridors of power while quietly, studiously keeping her eye

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Liz Truss became the new Prime Minister of the UK three days before Queen Elizabeth died. So no one has paid much attention to her. I heard she was a fan of Margaret Thatcher so I've been curious and hopeful. This has some good info in it.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MDConservative 9/19/2022 11:51:43 AM (No. 1281901)
Time will tell. I fear the UK has fallen too far into the hole dug for years by the left with Tory cooperation, not unlike the US. What is she and her party willing to do? Where are they willing to go with a fresh start and, one hopes, determined leadership?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 9/19/2022 12:23:01 PM (No. 1281926)
FTA: “Her philosophy is open free markets, smaller states, transfer power away from bureaucracy, get government off people’s backs.” That, right there, is a totally winning strategy, and if she can accomplish half of that, she will be a heroine. And her previous job may be extremely valuable experience. FTA: "After graduation, she got a job at Shell, where she worked with a team of economists on liquified natural gas, ...." Amazing. A politician at this time who has a background in accounting, economics of liquified natural gas, and understands mathematics and WORKS HARD. In the normal span of politicians even ONE of those skills stands out as rare, all together, darned near unicorn status. Best wishes to the new PM. I hope she succeeds greatly.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 9/19/2022 12:43:20 PM (No. 1281956)
Thanks for posting. This seems to be a pretty good fleshed-out profile. So right wing that her Socialist father is appalled? And a Reagan admirer..Sounds good to me.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: earlybird 9/19/2022 12:45:35 PM (No. 1281958)
What #2 said - plus she READS! I like the sound of her. How interesting to read the criticisms mentioned. They would never be leveled at a male PM.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: LadyHen 9/19/2022 1:34:18 PM (No. 1282006)
Well be prepared to get the same treatment as The Iron Lady. Lady Thatcher worked herself into the ground and was damned by most of the UK all while saving their little island from the rubbish heap of history. It was on the brink of collapse and turning into a third rate European power due thanks exclusively to decades of Socialist codswallop and nanny state bureaucracy that was slowly draining away the life's blood of the nation. Sadly, the UK has not stopped this slide toward more and more adolescent magical thinking and I don't see that changing any time soon.
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