No, Liz Truss Was Not Always Anti-Lockdown
Liz Truss has won the race to become the new leader of the U.K. Conservative Party, and will take office as Britain’s next Prime Minister on Tuesday, replacing current PM Boris Johnson.
During leadership hustings, when asked whether she “would ever authorise another lockdown,” Truss ruled them out: “No, I wouldn’t.” When asked whether she regretted any of her support for lockdowns during her time in government, Truss claimed she’d always been against them: “Every single time I was given the chance to express a view I was on the side of doing less.”
But that’s a stretch. Truss repeatedly urged her constituents to comply with lockdown measures. And in fact, on BBC as late as October 2020, Truss defended the Government’s lockdown measures and chided critics who, as she put it, claimed they “don’t like” the measures without “proposing alternative measures”.
We’ve expanded test and trace and we are working to find a vaccine, but until we have a vaccine we do have to live with this disease, and the measures that we’ve put in place, whilst not measures that we’d want to have to do in normal times, are the best way of dealing with it that we have now. And I notice that none of the critics are proposing alternative measures, they’re simply saying they don’t like the current measures, and what I’m saying to you, Nick, is there’s a group of people saying the measures are too lax, and the others are saying they’re too tough, I think we’re striking the right balance…
Truss later voted in favour of vaccine mandates for health workers, vaccine mandates for care home workers, and the use of vaccine passports for the right to access everyday venues.
The lockdowns of 2020 failed to meaningfully slow the spread of the coronavirus and led to the deaths of countless thousands of young people in every country in which they were tried. While it’s reassuring to know that the new PM has foresworn future lockdowns, it’s deeply unfair to those who were bold enough to fight against those terrible measures from the earliest date – at tremendous personal expense, and despite the onslaught of shaming from those, like Liz Truss, who defended the measures – for Liz Truss to retroactively pretend that she was among them.
The Great Revision continues. Hold on to those receipts.
Michael P. Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. This post first appeared on his Substack page, which you can subscribe to here.
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Not taking office until Tuesday? Wasn’t it repeatedly promised that Saint Boris’s successor would “hit the ground running”? Not that I’m desperate for govt action in general, she is a politician after all.
We’ve not really had a functioning government in over 30 years to be fair, an extra day to get the latest UN/WEF puppet makes no difference.
She has to see the Queen first, this morning
Often happens if you want to keep your job. Will she be ending the UK’s ’emergency’ covid rules?
…Especially as the covid-19 alert level was reduced to level 2 on 31/8/2022.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-alert-level-reduced-to-two
I suspect she’d claim that she always argued privately against lockdowns and the most moronic restrictions, but accepted Cabinet Collective Responsibility so was duty-bound to speak in favour of them in public. She wasn’t part of the Quad (Johnson, Sunak, Gove, Handcock) who were making the decisions.
I expect she is being economical with the actualite but is not an out-and-out-liar like Johnson.
No-one can look into another person’s soul, so we’ll never know for certain.
But she voted for the passes. What is her excuse for that? it was clear at the time that the vaccine didn’t prevent transmission, so we can add crass scientific stupidity to the charge sheet of use of unethical coercive measures and an authoritative tyrannical mindset.
I think that she would have needed to resign from the government to take the course of voting against, whatever people think of this will depend on your own personal stance. It’s becoming clearer that the small group who effectively decided this were not going to accept disagreement.
If I were to set my face against everyone who didn’t hold a total sceptic view regarding all the Covid useless NPIs then there would be very few people left to support.
If Truss now says she will not lockdown again and is against the idiot measures then we need to take what we can get and keep up the pressure not to renege on this.
Particularly when, to support passes, you had to be wilfully blind to the facts on the ground. As early as December of 2020, Pfizer knew without question that the vaccines were not good at preventing transmission, and that efficacy waned within weeks. Even to this day, politicians are still scrupulous in their avoidance of any counter-narrative, so much so that the mental gymnastics required to avoid the truth must be exhausting.
Will Truss have the courage to see her appointment as an opportunity for a blank slate? I’m sure if she came out and said that virtually every decision the government made over the last two years was wrong or at least driven by very imperfect data, the public would be very sympathetic to that line.
At least in the UK you now have politicians professing to be anti-lockdown.
In Australia, both major parties federally and state ( we duplicate our politicians in this enlightened country) supported lockdowns, and haven’t said a word against them.
It’s very similar in Canada. Trudeau and Freeland are still wearing masks whenever they think anyone is looking (although of course Trudeau did not wear a mask on the government plane that took him and his family on holiday), holding out the threat of lockdowns if we don’t comply with their nonsensical directives about masks and vaccines for healthy adults and children, and generally milking this for all it’s worth.
We do have a conservative opposition, and it looks like we’ll get exactly the leader we need in Poilievre to defeat Trudeau. But the Liberals have managed to co-opt the NDP into propping up their minority government – between the two, it’s a race to the bottom on everything from direct bribes to the complicit media to boosters for babies to trans indoctrination at every level of government and education to catastrophic anti-science energy policies to virtue signalling guilt and never-ending apologies for often entirely invented past wrongs.
This recently posted substack sits nicely here regarding the SAGE minutes for school closures. Our enlightened “experts” knew of the harm they were going to unleash, the uselessness of the school closure & yet they still went ahead with them.
https://usforthem2020.substack.com/p/sage-records-underline-that-decisions
Truss 2020 “I notice that none of the critics are proposing alternative measures, they’re simply saying they don’t like the current measures…”
I noticed people were proposing not destroying the economy with lockdowns. They were also proposing not killing people witt experiment medications
Who will take responsibility for the jabbicide?
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Can I correct what Liz (effectively) said: “… I think we’re striking the right POLITICAL balance”. As we know, the measures had nothing to do with ‘science’ or medicine, but were 100% political.
Having read the ‘Snake Oil’ book by Micheal Senger I do hope he put some money on his prophecy of 29 March 2021!
It matters not a jot what she says- it’s what she does that counts.