George Monbiot: New U.K. PM Liz Truss Has 'Extreme Neoliberal' Anti-Labor, Anti-Environment Record

The United Kingdom's Conservative Party has voted for Liz Truss to become its new leader, replacing Boris Johnson and making her Britain's next prime minister. Truss served as foreign secretary under Johnson and has a record of "extreme neoliberal policies," says British journalist George Monbiot. These include supporting tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulating the fossil fuel industry and refusing to regulate agricultural pollution. Monbiot also warns Truss will undermine the country's model public health system and labor rights for organizing workers.

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[EdmundKempersDartboard]

I wish I got a round of applause every time I said I was going to do something that I never actually end up doing.

[dubinatub]

I know this new prime minister will be a disaster for the UK.

[TheWayOfRespectAndKindness]

This is a “dark ages” turning point. We have a choice to make; do we come together for the sake of humanity or fall apart and cause our own extinction?

[orchidhouse]

Ideology takes precedence over climate, health, education, services, - everything the ordinary working family needs. She is going to be a disaster for the wellbeing of our country.

[Charlie-jugf]

I'm from the UK. The fact that nobody I know mentioned her becoming PM shows where we are as a society. It's just another bad event in a long line of bad events.

[darkhorsexx]

George Monbiot starts out by describing Liz as a Psychopath. I am not going to argue with George's description.

[richardcalhoun]

Liz is a perfect politician, she wears two-faces.

[OneBlurryLens]

Rich people doing rich people things to poor people.
Is anyone out there still shocked by this?
Lol

[farinshore]

I felt relief with the resignation of Boris. Now the sense of threat seems greater.

[jeromesims]

There's a third option; people power. But for the most part people here in the UK still want do "the same thing over and over again expecting a different result". So they think that throwing out the Tories and replacing them with a neoliberal Labour again will somehow be an improvement. The insanity of it is that the last time Labour were in power they waged an illegal war along with the US, bailed out the ultra-rich and waived monopoly laws to allow already massive banks to merge and swallow up smaller ones. At least this time they are clear about not hoping for real change so much as sticking it to the Tories even if it means sticking it to themselves again. At this point no one can say what it will take to wake the British up, especially the English, to the reality that only radical reform demanded by an anti-elitist grassroots and people power is the solution.

[hoebeng]

Western Democracy at its finest...a PM voted in by 1% of the eligible voters.

[beegee]

The Conservatives in British government not being representative of the political makeup of the people sounds like the U.S., too bad for us all.

[BC-duhm]

She is a political shape shifter. Flips on her policy as needed. In other words, she lacks credibility. Just like her buddy Boris who was outed. She defeated the Man who led the camp that was opposed to Boris Johnson. In many respects she is an extension of Boris!

[xanatax]

Yeah, I had a feeling a Liz Truss gov’t would be horrid … but I didn’t realize how fast the bad news was going to start. 😭

[MrTwentyvideo]

I live in the US (The Ununited States of America). I could tell she was using the same playbook I hear here. A conservative robot for ghouls.

[circa]

We should be concerned that she used to work at Shell Oil and converted to conservative.

Frankly, I would have preferred her father (maths prof, Labor and for nuclear disarmament) he refused to back her move into politics..

And she thinks that solar panels look "depressing" 🙄.

[tonylupone]

Blame the Murdoch press. Since the 80s when Murdoch broke the UNION"S

[M_Bamboozled]

Poise, good sense, facts and excellent delivery from George as usual. Given everything, I'm amazed at how calm and professional he is.

[JLSMaytham]

George! You should know that Members of the Tory Party who chose the next Prime Minister don't even have to live in the UK, pay taxes here or even be a voter here.
Think about that.

[silverdamsen]

The horror of having it confirmed that Liz Truss is one of the few people that will be worse than Boris Johnson.