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Liz Truss

Ms Truss is an MP for a constituency in South West Norfolk, that has voted Torie since the 1960s. She stands as the personification of why I left the party.  In her constituency the elections are won at the selection committee level and as such Ms Truss can stand as an MP for a very long time.  

One of her more unattractive features is her ability to blame everything on everyone else. I will admit that I have only met her twice, and that was with a group of Tories supporters (some years ago) long before she became the shortest-tenured Prime Minister.  

As a politician, her most attractive feature is that she's a woman.  Unfortunately, that's the extent of her positive features, and that is evidently not enough.  She grew up in what could charitably be considered an ultra-left-wing household to well-educated parents who thought so much of communism that they briefly moved the Poland...which may explain Ms Truss' own diametrically opposed political views.

For a while now she has been ranting about how she was torpedoed by the Deep State on her prime ministership.  She's absolutely right.  Both the Civil Service and the party realized that she was nuts, and that's telling when you consider that she's in the Conservative Party.  Her replacement Rishi Sunak is a lot smarter and driven by other things than personal aggrandizement, not that it will change the outcome, let's be honest here, the Tories are screwed.

Still, every time I hear Ms Truss open her mouth, or even articles about her, my reaction is visceral, it's like with Trump or Farage, I just don't want to know what they have to say.  I skipped the article or changed the channel.  I know that whatever comes out of her mouth will be a lie!

That's deadly for a politician, but her supporters still seem to love her, and despite the massive slap she got from the Party, she's still running as a conservative member...it tells you everything you need to know about her.  It's not about King and Country, it's about Liz.

Note: Ms Truss is not our MP, our farm is not in her constituency, its close but not in it.  Still a conservative stronghold...

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