After meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss has taken over Britain’s leadership as successor to a failed Boris Johnson and has said that she intends to “govern as a Conservative” with “a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy.” Can the new prime minister cause a significant shift enough to lead Britain back to being a significant player on the global front and save its free society from further assault? There is a big difference between governing as leader of the Conservative party and governing as a conservative. To do the latter, Truss would need to adhere to conservative philosophies and policies, which are all-encompassing. There are numerous conservative-in-name-only types, such as Boris Johnson. Thanks to Leftist policies, Western free societies are in crisis, as their worst enemies, including China and Iran, are on the rise.
Here’s a glimpse of Liz Truss’ promises and policies, indicating where she stands on key issues. These issues show distinctly whether a leader is a genuine conservative or an appeaser and liberal in disguise.
Muslim rape gangs
Truss is going after them. She pledges to hold police to account over their action against “‘repulsive‘ grooming gangs in ‘places like Telford,'” but is she willing to tell it like it is? Will she acknowledge that these “grooming gangs” were predominantly Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, who targeted infidel girls? Truss is right to be tough on the police, but what about the ideology that undergirds these Muslim rape gangs, thus enabling them to continue abusing girls at will, with no accountability? Young innocent British girls continue to be at great risk.
Truss was quoted by the Independent saying that “she will take ‘a zero tolerance approach to Islamophobia’ after letters from All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims.” How does this work for Muslim rape gang victims, since Islamic lobbies regard merely recognizing their identity as “Islamophobic”? Let’s see how Truss reconciles Muslim rape gang issues, illegal Muslim migrant issues, and free speech that offends Islam with her stated commitment to take a “zero-tolerance for ‘Islamophobia’ approach.” Islamic supremacist pressure to conform to their sharia ideals and not offend Muslims is enormous. Already, Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) has gone into full manipulation mode to solidify its influence with Truss and the Conservative party. The group congratulated Truss and proceeded to offer her “five action points to assist her in demonstrating zero-tolerance for ‘Islamophobia,'” in other words, to live up to her own promise.
Illegal Muslim migration
Britain has endured a steady flow of illegal economic migrants primarily from North Africa and the Middle East for years, coming into the country across the English Channel. These numbers are expected to top 60,000 this year. Liz Truss insisted she will “absolutely” use the Royal Navy to stop migrants crossing the English Channel illegally. And a “military presence would be maintained under her premiership.” We shall see.
Iran
We’ll have to wait and see on this one, too, particularly in light of Iran’s rapid escalation as a nuclear threshold state. Truss told Iran back in February that she hopes that the UK will soon be able to repay a £400m debt, a debt “dating back to the sale of tanks to the shah of Iran in the mid-1970s.” Yet the shah is no longer in power; the UK doesn’t owe that money to the mullahs. She also “praised Tehran for housing as many as 2 million refugees.”
As if that weren’t enough, on the prospect of a new Iran nuclear deal, Truss reportedly “wanted to stress the upside of both sides reaching a deal.” Let’s hope she will now be advised better in how to deal with Iran and walks this back quickly. Iran lied about the 2015 nuke deal as it enriched uranium toward making a bomb. And a new deal is close. The Iranian regime sees appeasement and conciliation as weakness. Also, Iran’s Shia regime views women as inferiors.
Israel
Haaretz states that Liz Truss Could Be the Most pro-Israel British Prime Minister Ever. Truss has steadily supported Israel, and it looks as if she is prepared to move the British embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In response to the tired old propaganda accusations of Israel killing Palestinians, Truss has stated that “the UK stands by Israel and its right to defend itself.”
Environment and Energy:
Truss isn’t a tree hugger; she is not among those who are hell-bent on destroying Britain’s energy supplies and transforming the globe in line with World Economic Forum madness, as are Joe Biden, Canada’s Justin Trudeau and all too many European leaders. This is why woke blokes including Owen Jones are savaging her; Jones wrote in the Guardian: “Liz Truss puts hard-right ideology above lives – and is backing oil and gas to prove it.”
COVID lockdowns, taxes and less government
Truss doesn’t back COVID lockdowns that didn’t seem to apply to partying politicians who were too good for their own rules. She also says that she believes in less government and lower taxes, “saying she will govern as a Conservative, Truss said she intended to deliver ‘what we promised voters in 2019’ and said she would push a ‘bold plan to cut taxes’ and grow the British economy.”
Liz Truss also says that she regrets “draconian” COVID lockdowns, which failed to stop the spread of COVID and ruined the economy. She has sworn never to reimpose them.
Her vow to cut taxes and decrease government handouts stemming from the COVID economy would have to be carefully implemented, given the miserable state of Britain’s economy. According to the far-Left Guardian, realities may make implementation of her plans difficult:
“Yet brute necessity will be Truss’s handmaid. Energy consumers, producers and retailers are screaming in agony. Thousands of small businesses face bankruptcy. After 12 years of Tory government, Truss will be forced to summon Labour’s state interventionism to her rescue.”
“Labour’s state interventionism” may be going to far, yet compromise may prove imperative. What the Guardian says should always be taken with reserve, but there is no doubt that Truss faces an uphill battle.
Wokeism and antisemitism
Why even pair them together? Because in one fell swoop, Truss accused the civil service of having a culture of both, and vowed to change this as prime minister. Everything you want to know about Liz Truss and her stance on wokeism is stated in her own words in this Daily Mail article, aptly entitled: “Equality should be for everyone – not just for the woke warrior’s favoured few.”
Any predictions of how Truss may perform cannot be conclusive. But if the woke media attacks on Truss are any indicator, then there is cause for hope in Britain’s new prime minister — unless, of course, she breaks under Left media bias and Islamic supremacist demands, as so many on the Right tend to do. Truss is already being compared to Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher, to be sure, would not be found kowtowing to Islamic special interest groups, countries or Leftists.
We will know quite soon, amid all of today’s global crises, whether Truss is up to leading Britain.
Wellington says
Promises made but will they be kept? Time will tell.
If Truss has the balls that Thatcher did, then I am encouraged. If not, then the great decline of Britain will continue.
milo minderbinder says
+1
I once heard someone say, “If the Queen had balls, she would be the King!”
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
She may have good intentions, but as long as she is against the fake “phobia” which mozlums charge whenever anyone even looks like they will utter a word of Truth about them. she’s not going to be effective against the gangs of moxlum rapists. If you can’t name your enemy, or even your suspected enemy, then the battle is already lost.
mozlums take trouble wherever they go and a large part of their trouble is raping young girls, little kids, young women and even older and infirm women because they are taught that is what mozlums do and should do. And if she can’t bring herself to recognize that mozlums don’t want to be **named** as the rapists because that shines a bright light on the trouble they carry with them, then she’s in her own trouble from the start.
she should read Mr. Spencer’s and Mr. Raymond Ibrahim’s books; and read, at least occasionally, the reports from Steven Emerson’s IPT site.
the children of the U.K. need her to do this.
Wellington says
She SHOULD read Robert Spencer’s books, among others, somehistory, and if she were really serious about dealing with the rot infecting the UK right now re Muslims and their wretched belief system, she would lift the ban on travel to the UK that still exists where Mr. Spencer is concerned.
Sadly, I’ll bet she won’t. Would relish being wrong here.
somehistory says
Wellington, she should lift the ban on Mr. Spencer and Ms. Geller and invite them to come and meet with her.
sometimes, I am surprised. Perhaps I’ll be and you’ll get to “relish.” We can hope.
Wellington says
Ah, forgot about Geller, somehistory, so thanks for reminding me. Yes, that ban should be lifted too.
As for hope, I have mixed feelings about hope. As Emily Dickinson wrote, “Hope is a subtle glutton.”
somehistory says
Yes, and thank you for the reminder about Mr. Spencer being banned. She could have a long talk with Tommy Robinson and he could clue her in on the topic of the rape gangs.
As for “hope”….the Bible says “hope does not lead to disappointment.” Of course, it doesn’t mean hope in everything turns out well, only the one to which it referred.
I have hoped many things, and they didn’t happen, but I still hold out hope when I don’t know the outcome beforehand. So, I’ll hope and we shall see if I’m surprised and you relish. I like relish on hot dogs and in potato salad.
Wellington says
Well, somehistory, as I already indicated I have mixed feelings about hope. There is a part of me that looks favorably upon it but then there is that “Dickinson reservation” which I think has merit too. Like so much about life, there are shades of gray and conflicting realities.
On the matter of relish, bring it on, especially on hot dogs. Best to you and yours.
somehistory says
I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to dismiss your “mixed feelings.” I was just splaining ( as Ricky Ricardo would say) mine…which i believe are also mixed.
and thank you, Wellington, for You too. Now, I’m thinking about hot dogs with relish.
Wellington says
I took absolutely no offense, somehistory. So, no feelings hurt whatsoever. Now to those hot dogs—with relish.
somehistory says
🙂
gravenimage says
Yes–hope is a fine thing. But relying on false hope is as bad as cynicism.
somehistory says
It is not always clear when hope is “false hope.” One can only know the outcome at the outcome when there are so many variables. In the way politicians lie, pretend, and often deliberately deceive to get votes, it is not always easy to tell they are lies at the beginning. I have never heard of this woman before, nor read what she has said, so I have no idea if she means what she says. all I can discern at this point is that she doesn’t understand mozlums or what they believe or want; otherwise, she would not be saying what she did about the ‘phobia.’
gravenimage says
Of course you are quite right, Somehistory.
I meant more false hope that is *obviously false* to anyone honestly paying attention.
But many cases it just isn’t clear–I think that’s where we are with Liz Truss right now.
mick says
Is Robert Spenser banned from the UK?
If so, on what grounds?
Wellington says
Spencer has been banned for many years now. I believe this occurred when Cameron was PM. The reason is, to put it in general terms, that he is an instigator of violence and a hater, which is risible considering that he speaks only the truth about Islam and meanwhile Islamic zealots aplenty have been left into the UK.
James Lincoln says
mick,
UK “officials” feel that Robert Spencer may cause a “breach of the peace” by speaking truthfully about islam.
gravenimage says
Yes–never mind that those threatening to breach the peace are bullying Muslims, *not* Spencer or Geller, who are both completely peaceful and have *never* preached violence–they just condemn it.
Infidel says
I was watching Mark Steyn right now, and he had as his main guest Samantha Smith, a woman who was raped by the muslim gangs at the age of 5. They were covering a parliamentary debate on the Grooming gangs which had all of nine members present: this is how serious they are about it!
Mark listed a bunch of things he’d do in his first 45 minutes had he had the job: it would include pulling out of the European Commission for Human Rights, which tried to sabotage the Rwanda plan, ban all members of the government in participating in anything involving the WEF, cut off all funding to all projects that place those ‘migrants’ in Britain, fire all publicly appointed diversity officers and so on
One of his mailers suggested stopping paying for those hotel stays, and just turning those people to the embassies of the countries they were from e.g. Pakistan, Albania, Bangladesh, et al and let them decide how to deal w/ them. That one was a new one, but sounded to me like one of the best solutions, as it would now force their home countries to prevent them from leaving in the first place
Wellington says
If only, Infidel, Steyn was Prime Minister of Canada instead of the woeful and tyrannical Trudeau.
Infidel says
He nowadays seems to be based in Britain. One thing I never figured out – did he get full blown US citizenship, or did it stop w/ a Green Card? He used to live in New Hampshire, but after Biden came to power, he seemed to have crossed the pond and has a daily show on GBNews at 3pm local time
As for him being the PM of Canada, it would have had to be from the People’s Party of Canada, since the Conservative Party there is probably more to the left of the Tories in Britain. Canada just has a population of 30 million, so the Great Replacement, which would take some work in being pulled off in the US, is more easily achieved in Canada, if it hasn’t been already
Wellington says
My understanding, Infidel, is that Steyn is still a Canadian citizen. I know he lived in New Hampshire for many years (Enfield and which town I have been through many times) but I’m not certain of his present permanent residency.
gravenimage says
I don’t think that Steyn has ever formally taken out US citizenship. For years he has been based in the US, Canada, or UK. Until recently he was based in New Hampshire, but that may have changed.
Infidel says
Here is the video of their conversation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_OnajbCSBE
John ..Smith says
I’m on the fence when it comes to Liz Truss, she may well be more aware of islamic ideology than she is letting on. I like some of her policies (not all of them) but time will only tell what she’s made of.
I will definitely have an opinion on her by this time next year,probably well before.
Wellington says
I will welcome your opinion, John Smith, for two reasons–you’re informed and you’re British.
John ..Smith says
Thank you Wellington I always appreciate your comments
John ..Smith says
Thank you Wellington I appreciate your comment, I’ve always recognised just how highly intelligent and educated you are but please listen to me on this one.
I might sound like a doomsday monger, but the world is heading for global famine and I want you and all jihadwatch readers to heed my warning and stock up with food and essential supplies because it’s going to happen.
somehistory says
Michael Snyder has a list
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/a-list-of-33-things-we-know-about-the-coming-food-shortages/
or the list is also on his blog
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/
John ..Smith says
Thanks for the links Somehistory
Wellington says
Re global food shortages (energy shortages too), John Smith, based on what I have come across I think this is a distinct possibility because we are now largely led by fools and the malevolent.
milo minderbinder says
+1
Sound advice John Smith, very sound.
When the basic necessities are taken away from people, food, water, clothing, and shelter, well, who knows what the result will be.
It seems that people are being conditioned to bring out the worst in humanity, a complete disregard for the rule of law and basic civilized behavior.
In addition to stocking up on food and essential supplies, one might need to purchase a gun or guns, along with a sufficient amount of ammunition to protect their life and the lives of their loved ones.
gravenimage says
Thank you, John. Of course, I hope Liz Truss turns out to be as good as she sounds.
somehistory says
Me, too. Don’t hold back once you think something.
milo minderbinder says
In some ways, leaders are only as effective as the people they choose for advisors. Politics is a filthy business, as Donald Trump learned first hand.
gravenimage says
Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss promises to lead as a conservative, but will she really?
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So far she sounds really good. Of course, so did Boris Johnson, and he walked back a lot of his promises. I feel somewhat hopeful, though.
mick says
Good summary.
Re Iran, the Shah’s deposit or tanks was funded by Iran’s people and resources. We have owed the Iranian people the money since the 70s.
We did not return it in the 80s, because we switched our support to Iraq (with the US).
We have had 50 years to come up with a way to pay without financing Sepah and Co.
Eg supply of vaccines or water treatment plant.
Our stance does less than nothing to help the many pro Western Iranians.
gravenimage says
Giving the money to the Mullahs does not help the Iranian people.