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Libertarian crank Liz Truss is the leader Brexit Britain deserves
Incompetent, feckless, out of touch and out of time are the kindest things you could say about the worst prime minister the UK has had since, well, probably since records began. Liz Truss elevates Boris Johnson to the status of a Cicero and Theresa May to that of a Queen Boudica by comparison, such has been her crass mismanagement of Britain’s economic and political affairs since entering Number Ten.
This is what happens when the Tory Party coronates a libertarian crank as prime minister. And it’s what happens when said libertarian crank decides that she will impose her crank ideas on an entire country — ideas cooked up in the laboratory of the damned that is Brexit Britain.
What an unalloyed shitshow Truss’s honeymoon in office has proved. What does it say about a political system that could even consider for a second such an unreconstructed nutter as suitable for any political office, never mind the highest office in the land?
It says that the Westminster system is irreparably broken and beyond saving.
Forcing her ill-suited and fellow libertarian crank Kwasi Kwarteng to fall on his sword as sacrificial lamb for the crime of agreeing with her batshit crazy plan to engender growth, a plan that only succeeded in almost tanking the UK economy, Truss must be…