Heard dat from another sauce.
Heard Liz Truss, the short-term UK PM say she was going to CPAC. She would have been a very good UK PM. She is anti woke and is all in for Trump’s policies. Pity she was forced out so quick.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/liz-truss-cpac-speech
Liz Truss, the former British prime minister, told a rightwing conference in the US that her country was “failing” and needed a Donald Trump-style “Maga” movement to save it.
Truss was speaking on Wednesday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the National Harbor in Maryland, alongside rightwing populists from around the world planning deeper ties and cooperation.
“We now have a major problem in Britain that judges are making decisions that should be made by politicians,” the ex-prime minister said, claiming that the judiciary is “no longer accountable” because of reforms by her predecessor Tony Blair, who gave power to an “unelected bureaucracy”.
She continued: “There’s no doubt in my mind that until those changes are reversed, we do not have a functioning country. The British state is now failing, is not working. The decisions are not being made by politicians.”
Truss, who was prime minister for only 49 days and lost her seat in last year’s general election, has become an increasingly marginal figure in British politics but found safe harbour at CPAC, a once mainstream conservative gathering that has embraced Trump’s brand of nativist-populism.
Voters are increasingly angry, she claimed, because they keep voting for change only to be disappointed, including in the current prime minister, Keir Starmer. “The same people are still making the decisions. It’s the deep state, it’s the unelected bureaucrats, it’s the judiciary.
And I think what ultimately will happen, what I hope to see, is a movement like you have in the US with Maga [‘Make America great again’], with CPAC, with all these organisations, that ultimately pushes change we all want. We want to have a British CPAC.”
Matt Schlapp, the longtime CPAC organiser who has previously exported the brand to countries including Argentina, Australia and Hungary, replied: “It’s a deal!”
The head of CPAC Hungary, Miklós Szánthó, was also present at Wednesday’s “international summit” and reminded the audience that political strategist Steve Bannon had once described Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán as “Trump before Trump”.
Szánthó earned applause from the audience by declaring: “Hungary is the island of freedom in the liberal ocean of Europe.”
He said: “We might be even more thrilled about the return of Donald J Trump to the White House than you are … I am sure that this world will be a better place for true conservatives and true Hungarians with Donald J Trump in the White House.”
thanks anon.
Farage def has his timing and delivery wired. Liz Truss not so much but let’s support our frens where we find them, as we find them. Hope Liz joins with Nigel to press on.
Tyvm for link