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Line 29: − + − Favored by most polls to replace [[Boris Johnson]] as the UK Prime Minister and [[Tory]] leader following the announcement of Johnson's resignation in a [[corruption]] scandal earlier in the summer of 2022, Truss was appointed to the position by [[Queen Elizabeth II]] on September 6, 2022,<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-liz-truss-maintains-big-lead-leadership-contest-poll-2022-08-18/ UK's Liz Truss maintains big lead in leadership contest - poll]</ref> two days before the Queen's death.+ − + − Truss's own Minister of Finance was canned after only 38 days for implementing Truss's own economic policies. He was the fourth British Finance Minister fired in four months after the UK implemented its suicidal [[Great Reset|Russia sanctions policy.]] As [[Russophobe]]s spoke of [[regime change]] in Russia, Tories spoke of the second regime change in the UK in only two months to "save the party."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/15/tories-talks-ousting-truss-rescue-party</ref> − − − Under the British parliamentary system, the right to vote for UK Prime Minister was offered to 172,000 Conservative Party “members” who held a majority in parliament. Of this group, fully a 20% subset (30,000+) of members did not vote. 142,000 then cast votes on behalf of the remainder of all of Britain. Only 82,136 voted for Truss. However, as of July 2020, there are 46.8 million registered UK voters. 0.17% of British voters put Truss in power.<ref>[https://brettredmaynetitley.substack.com/p/liz-truss-and-britains-017-democracy Liz Truss and Britain’s 0.17% Democracy (Monocracy), Brett Redmayne-Titley</ref> − − Having won election as Leader of the Conservative Party on September 5, 2022, Truss was received the following day by Queen Elizabeth II, who duly appointed her as Britain's new Prime Minister. The meeting occurred at Balmoral Castle in [[Scotland]], making Truss the first prime minister during Elizabeth's reign not to be appointed at [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/uk/queen-elizabeth-prime-minister-balmoral-intl-gbr/index.html</ref> The appointment would turn out to be one of the Queen's last official acts as Head of State before her death just two days later at Balmoral Castle. This made Truss, who addressed the nation shortly thereafter, the last of fifteen Prime Ministers to serve under Elizabeth II, the first being [[Winston Churchill]] in the 1950s. − − In her first address from 10 Downing Street on the evening of September 6, Truss, praising the legacy and achievements of her predecessor Boris Johnson, pledged "high-paying jobs [and] safe streets" for the British people. She identified her primary policies as tax-cutting, infrastructure-building, reform to the nationalized health-care system, and finding a solution to the nation's energy crisis (which she blamed on [[Vladimir Putin]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6Mkkp1Jro Sky News Live]. 6 September 2022, two days before the Queen passed away.</ref> − − Line 58:
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On October 20, 2022, Truss announced her resignation, making her tenure the shortest of any prime minister in British history.
On October 20, 2022, Truss announced her resignation, making her tenure the shortest of any prime minister in British history.
==Prime Minister of the United Kingdom==
== Political career ==
=== Foreign secretary ===
====Russia-Ukraine war====
===UK "democracy"===
===Russia-Ukraine war===
{{See also|Russia-Ukraine war}}
{{See also|Russia-Ukraine war}}
====Nordstream terror attack====
====Nordstream terror attack====
On January 27, 2022 [[neocon]] [[provocateur]] [[Victoria Nuland]] stated at a U.S. State Department press briefing "one way or another Nord Stream II will not move forward."<ref>https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-january-27-2022/</ref> Ten day later ''[[ABC News]]'' reported that Joe Biden threatened to sabotage the [[Nord Stream II]] pipeline in a public press conference from the [[White House]].<ref>https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1490792461979078662</ref> In June 2022 it was announced that that the [[Baltic Sea]] had become "a NATO lake."<ref>https://www.eva.fi/en/blog/2022/06/27/the-baltic-sea-became-a-nato-lake/</ref><ref>https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/08/finnish-estonian-cooperation-turning-baltic-sea-into-a-nato-lake/</ref><ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/12/finland-sweden-nato-us-europe-pacific-military-pivot-strategy-geopolitics/</ref> On September 7, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Nord Stream II pipeline could be reopened "tomorrow" to alleviate Europe's impending winter heating fuel crisis.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-07/putin-says-nord-stream-can-reopen-if-turbines-available</ref><ref>https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/russia-ready-to-switch-on-nord-stream-ii-pipeline-tomorrow-if-europe-gives-green-light/2678820</ref> On September 26, 2022 a NATO P8 Poseidon subhunter was also present over the sight where the sabotage occurred for 2 and 1/2 hours.<ref>https://youtu.be/Jfpw9I01J0o?t=713</ref> Poseidon P8 has a HAAWC (High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability) system, an all-weather add-on glide kit that enables the Mk54 torpedo to be launched near or below the cruising altitude of the P8 Poseidon.<ref>https://www.monkeywerxus.com/blog/the-nord-stream-2-pipeline-sabotage</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/XPUwgaAScp8</ref> The USS Kearsarge was also present in the vicinity of the sabotage.<ref>https://archive.ph/wip/fElO6</ref>1 minute after the pipeline exploded, UK prime minister Liz Truss texted Biden foreign secretary [[Antony Blinken]] saying, "It's done."<ref>https://www.asiamarkets.com/did-liz-truss-text-antony-blinken-after-nord-stream/?nowprocket=1</ref> The incident is an act of war by the United States and Great Britain against the people of a NATO ally.
On January 27, 2022 [[neocon]] [[provocateur]] [[Victoria Nuland]] stated at a U.S. State Department press briefing "one way or another Nord Stream II will not move forward."<ref>https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-january-27-2022/</ref> Ten day later ''[[ABC News]]'' reported that Joe Biden threatened to sabotage the [[Nord Stream II]] pipeline in a public press conference from the [[White House]].<ref>https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1490792461979078662</ref> In June 2022 it was announced that that the [[Baltic Sea]] had become "a NATO lake."<ref>https://www.eva.fi/en/blog/2022/06/27/the-baltic-sea-became-a-nato-lake/</ref><ref>https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/08/finnish-estonian-cooperation-turning-baltic-sea-into-a-nato-lake/</ref><ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/12/finland-sweden-nato-us-europe-pacific-military-pivot-strategy-geopolitics/</ref> On September 7, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Nord Stream II pipeline could be reopened "tomorrow" to alleviate Europe's impending winter heating fuel crisis.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-07/putin-says-nord-stream-can-reopen-if-turbines-available</ref><ref>https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/russia-ready-to-switch-on-nord-stream-ii-pipeline-tomorrow-if-europe-gives-green-light/2678820</ref> On September 26, 2022 a NATO P8 Poseidon subhunter was also present over the sight where the sabotage occurred for 2 and 1/2 hours.<ref>https://youtu.be/Jfpw9I01J0o?t=713</ref> Poseidon P8 has a HAAWC (High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability) system, an all-weather add-on glide kit that enables the Mk54 torpedo to be launched near or below the cruising altitude of the P8 Poseidon.<ref>https://www.monkeywerxus.com/blog/the-nord-stream-2-pipeline-sabotage</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/XPUwgaAScp8</ref> The USS Kearsarge was also present in the vicinity of the sabotage.<ref>https://archive.ph/wip/fElO6</ref>1 minute after the pipeline exploded, UK prime minister Liz Truss texted Biden foreign secretary [[Antony Blinken]] saying, "It's done."<ref>https://www.asiamarkets.com/did-liz-truss-text-antony-blinken-after-nord-stream/?nowprocket=1</ref> The incident is an act of war by the United States and Great Britain against the people of a NATO ally.
===Prime Minister of the United Kingdom===
Favored by most polls to replace [[Boris Johnson]] as the UK Prime Minister and [[Tory]] leader following the announcement of Johnson's resignation in a [[corruption]] scandal earlier in the summer of 2022, Truss was appointed to the position by [[Queen Elizabeth II]] on September 6, 2022,<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-liz-truss-maintains-big-lead-leadership-contest-poll-2022-08-18/ UK's Liz Truss maintains big lead in leadership contest - poll]</ref> two days before the Queen's death.
Truss's own Minister of Finance was canned after only 38 days for implementing Truss's own economic policies. He was the fourth British Finance Minister fired in four months after the UK implemented its suicidal [[Great Reset|Russia sanctions policy.]] As [[Russophobe]]s spoke of [[regime change]] in Russia, Tories spoke of the second regime change in the UK in only two months to "save the party."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/15/tories-talks-ousting-truss-rescue-party</ref>
====UK "democracy"====
Under the British parliamentary system, the right to vote for UK Prime Minister was offered to 172,000 Conservative Party “members” who held a majority in parliament. Of this group, fully a 20% subset (30,000+) of members did not vote. 142,000 then cast votes on behalf of the remainder of all of Britain. Only 82,136 voted for Truss. However, as of July 2020, there are 46.8 million registered UK voters. 0.17% of British voters put Truss in power.<ref>[https://brettredmaynetitley.substack.com/p/liz-truss-and-britains-017-democracy Liz Truss and Britain’s 0.17% Democracy (Monocracy), Brett Redmayne-Titley</ref>
Having won election as Leader of the Conservative Party on September 5, 2022, Truss was received the following day by Queen Elizabeth II, who duly appointed her as Britain's new Prime Minister. The meeting occurred at Balmoral Castle in [[Scotland]], making Truss the first prime minister during Elizabeth's reign not to be appointed at [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/uk/queen-elizabeth-prime-minister-balmoral-intl-gbr/index.html</ref> The appointment would turn out to be one of the Queen's last official acts as Head of State before her death just two days later at Balmoral Castle. This made Truss, who addressed the nation shortly thereafter, the last of fifteen Prime Ministers to serve under Elizabeth II, the first being [[Winston Churchill]] in the 1950s.
In her first address from 10 Downing Street on the evening of September 6, Truss, praising the legacy and achievements of her predecessor Boris Johnson, pledged "high-paying jobs [and] safe streets" for the British people. She identified her primary policies as tax-cutting, infrastructure-building, reform to the nationalized health-care system, and finding a solution to the nation's energy crisis (which she blamed on [[Vladimir Putin]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6Mkkp1Jro Sky News Live]. 6 September 2022, two days before the Queen passed away.</ref>
==Resignation==
====Resignation====
Despite controversy surrounding her position on the Russia-Ukraine War, Truss quickly became more embroiled in domestic problems; her budget proposals provoked severe infighting within the Tory Party, as advocates of higher spending to make up for Britain's slumping economy clashed with those calling for [[supply-side]] policies to promote growth. After Truss repeatedly reversed herself on several budgetary items, creating the impression of a rudderless government, numerous MPs began expressing a lack of confidence in her ability to continue as prime minister, while polls showed Labour with an increasingly large lead in the next general election.
Despite controversy surrounding her position on the Russia-Ukraine War, Truss quickly became more embroiled in domestic problems; her budget proposals provoked severe infighting within the Tory Party, as advocates of higher spending to make up for Britain's slumping economy clashed with those calling for [[supply-side]] policies to promote growth. After Truss repeatedly reversed herself on several budgetary items, creating the impression of a rudderless government, numerous MPs began expressing a lack of confidence in her ability to continue as prime minister, while polls showed Labour with an increasingly large lead in the next general election.
After meeting with her deputy prime minister, Therese Coffey, and Tory party chair Jake Berry, and being told that she could no longer count on the support of a majority of Conservative MPs, Truss submitted her resignation to the [[Charles III|King]] on Thursday, October 20. Only 44 days had elapsed since her appointment as prime minister. In her announcement of the news, she stated "I cannot deliver on the mandate....I will remain as PM until a successor has been chosen."<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11336361/Truss-QUITS-PM-admits-carry-crisis-talks.html Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister after just 44 days]. ''Daily Mail'', Oct. 20, 2022.</ref>
After meeting with her deputy prime minister, Therese Coffey, and Tory party chair Jake Berry, and being told that she could no longer count on the support of a majority of Conservative MPs, Truss submitted her resignation to the [[Charles III|King]] on Thursday, October 20. Only 44 days had elapsed since her appointment as prime minister. In her announcement of the news, she stated "I cannot deliver on the mandate....I will remain as PM until a successor has been chosen."<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11336361/Truss-QUITS-PM-admits-carry-crisis-talks.html Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister after just 44 days]. ''Daily Mail'', Oct. 20, 2022.</ref>
=== Post-premiership activities ===
On 6 February 2023, Liz Truss blamed a "leftist economic establishment" and US socialist autocrat [[Joe Biden]] for the downfall of her government.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/02/06/truss-leftist-economic-establishment-biden-killed-my-low-tax-agenda-govt/ Truss: Leftist ‘Economic Establishment’, Biden Killed My Low-Tax Agenda Govt]</ref>
==Criticism==
Former Russian President [[Dmitri Medvedev]] wrote of Truss on [[Telegram]], who as foreign minister was influential in refusing a negotiated settlement and bringing about the Russia-Ukraine war:
{{quotebox-float|"Changing of the guard in Britain: the freak-uncle left, the freak-aunt came.
The new prime minister: a) an incompetent and mediocre thermonuclear [[Russophobe]] who does not have elementary ideas about politics, history, geography, but wants to defeat Russia in everything; b) pretends to be Margaret Thatcher, not having even 5 percent of her abilities; c) expects to overcome the energy crisis and food inflation, which became a consequence of her own delusional sanctions exercises. She will quarrel with everyone, fail everything and leave in disgrace, like her predecessor, the shaggy Boriska. Well, in Britain, famous for its traditions, it seems there is another one."}}
==References==
==References==