Truss praises Trump and Musk as she announces new ‘free speech media network’
Britain wants to be part of the “second American revolution”, Liz Truss claimed as she announced a new “free speech media network” at a right-wing conference in Washington.
Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister used a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) on Thursday to paint a critical picture of the UK, telling her American audience: “Britain is in the dark ages.
“We have a socialist Government, commissars ruling over us who are leading our country in a terrible direction.”
Vowing to take on a “deep state” that “legacy media” refused to scrutinise, Ms Truss announced a new media venture, saying: “We have seen what independent media has done for the United States, and we want some of that.”
‘Uncensorable’
She said: “That’s why we are going to be establishing a new, free speech, media network in conjunction with our American allies, including the great people here at Cpac.
“It will be uncensorable, uncancellable, it will take on the Britain Bashing Corporation, which is what we call the BBC, it will take on Starmer and his socialists, and it will take on the censors of Germany.”
Ms Truss, who served just 49 days as prime minister before resigning under pressure from her own party and then losing her seat at last year’s general election, also heaped praise on Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
‘Patriotic Brits’
Claiming that “everything that made Britain great is being destroyed by an establishment that hates Britain and hates the West”, she said: “Patriotic Brits have had enough, they’ve had enough, and we look across the Atlantic with envy.
“We see President Trump in the executive, in the Oval Office signing off executive orders and we want some of that in Britain.”
She added: “We want a Trump revolution in Britain, we want to flood the zone, we want Elon and his nerd army of Muskrats examining the British deep state.
“We missed the first American revolution in 1776, in fact it was a revolution against us, but we want to be part of the second American revolution.”
According to a YouGov poll carried out between February 16 and 17, some 73% of people hold an unfavourable view of Mr Trump, while an Ipsos poll in January found almost two-thirds of people had an unfavourable view of his advisor, Mr Musk.
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This is 2025 and not 1945. We have more in common with our European friends than we do with America under Trump. The sooner people understand this the better. Trump is threatening his neighbours including Canada and Denmark both of whom are close allies and would rather have closer ties to Putin’s Russia than with America’s conventional allies. Both Trump and Putin represent everything that British, Americans and Russians died fighting against in World War 2. A huge insult to their memories. Those who suck up to them – they are the traitors, not the ‘remoaners’. Yes we should defend… Read more »
To be fair she was right about the anti-growth coalition: the BoE, the Treasury and the Whitehall blob. They should all be abolished.
She’s really running amok since she lost power – it’s now ‘powerless without responsibility’
Liz Truss – a danger to life. Yours, mine, your family, my family, your yet unborn grandchildren and mine. Part of a treacherous and sick movement which crowed on about seizing ‘sovereignty’ from Europe only to give it away for free to the MUMP corporation of America in the final capitulation and humiliation to the former colony which kicked its’ occupiers’ sorry ass out in 1776. She would put me out of work but more serious than that would be bringing an early demise to the cancer patients I see benefitting from treatment every day. The rioters are too busy… Read more »
Free speech is indeed a wonderful thing.
Freedom to be rude! Freedom to be disrespectful! Freedom to be insulting! Freedom to be indifferent to others! My, what a cause!
Racism, sexism, Islamophobia, misogyny…just merely collateral damage, I suppose, to Truss, Farage, Badenoch and the rest.
Truss’s call for a coarse, vulgar re-entry into barbarism where no one would ever be sincerely welcome, treated with honesty, kindness and respect is sad, attention-seeking and desperate. We should resist.