Liz Truss addresses half-empty hall at UK CPAC debacle

Liz Truss addresses half-empty hall at UK CPAC debacle



Liz Truss speaking at CPAC

This week, the UK is hosting its very first Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). And if the early signs are anything to go by, there’s every chance it could also be the last:

Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

CPAC has been a mainstay of the American right for decades. In recent years, it’s begun to expand beyond the Americas too, with the UK its latest target market.

Reporting on the UK CPAC in June, we referred to it as a “Yank hand-me-down event“. We also noted:

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is a US event at which American Conservatives gather to revel in their own evil. Or it was, anyway. The most recent event was significantly diminished from the conference’s heyday.

The problem America’s right-wing speakers have is that their guys are in power right now. These reactionary speakers do a lot better when they’re reacting to a hostile establishment; not when they’re carrying water for the most corrupt and incompetent government of their lifetimes.

We speculated that the British CPAC could outperform the Yank one, because our homegrown right wingers are out of power right now. Looking at the Liz Truss clip, however, we admit we were wrong – dead f*cking wrong.

It looks like she’s delivering a timeshare presentation to a mid-sized budget hotel.

Or perhaps a booze-free Margaret Thatcher memorial.

Bleak

If you’re interested, this is what Truss said in the clip above:

Cultural and spiritual nihilism.

Always an uplifting start.

She continued:

Open borders and rising unrest.

This week, we will have yet another Prime Minister installed in Downing Street. Andy Burnham. The seventh within ten years.

This is a bizarre thing for Truss to say given that she was the shortest-lived PM among this cavalcade of clowns.

Truss later asked the audience:

What do you all think of Andy Burnham?

The response sounded like what you’d hear in a big Greggs that had just announced the sausage rolls were all gone.

Truss finished:

I’ve been there. I know that nothing will change.

Inspiring stuff.

Truss wasn’t the only one speaking either:

To be fair, this moment was pretty funny:

Yank slop

The UK now has a steady stream of politicians trying to push Yank-slop politics on us. Recent examples include:

We also just saw this:

And this:

There’s an obvious reason why British right wingers are pushing American right-wing politics, and it’s MONEY – the same reason why they do anything. Money can’t buy interest, however, and clearly there’s no audience for this guff; not unless they also start paying people to watch.

Featured image via the Canary

By Willem Moore





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