Dear John,
Despite the fact that she’s one of the least popular politicians in the history of this country, Liz Truss thinks she has something to offer her party’s election campaign. Unsurprisingly, it’s not going well.
Yesterday, Truss appeared on The Lotus Eaters podcast, a far-right web show that routinely engages in vehement hate speech. Its founder, Carl Benjamin (known to some by his online pseudonym Sargon of Akkad), has spent years raging against minority groups, backing UKIP and Farage, and ranting about “wokeness” and “political correctness”. He is the textbook definition of “right-wing nutjob” and not someone any serious politician would want to associate with.
Truss called in to the show yesterday saying it was her “favourite kind of outlet.” After her usual routine of promoting her book, lamenting the decline of the West, and calling to abolish human rights, she began to rattle off some properly mad conspiracy theories.
She accused the Labour leadership of being “in hock” to terrorists. She claimed that climate and ceasefire protestors control the Labour party and “want to see our country destroyed.” And she warned that Labour would bring “Sharia Law” to Britain.
It is astonishing to think that this woman once held the most powerful political position in the land.
Rishi Sunak is now under pressure from the Tory Chairman and several MPs (including Labour’s Jess Phillips who has received personal vitriolic abuse from Carl Benjamin) to reprimand or expel Truss from the party.
Expect more such nonsense in the next 35 days.
