Thread by @PandaScottish

[thread] I am going to do a thread

Where I praise Liz Truss

She is truly a courageous individual

She has changed her mind

politicshome.com/news/article/l…

So first of all

Let's go back in time

To Spring 2016

pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/fa…

"The minister warned that leaving the EU would be a leap in the dark for British agriculture, and could put the country’s European food and farming export market – worth £11billion each year – at risk."

The damage to food prices *ALREADY*

https://mobile.twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1024895987876343808

The damage to farming *ALREADY*

https://mobile.twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1009051789335855104

"Speaking on the opening day of the NFU conference in Birmingham Ms Truss said working within a reformed EU would reduce bureaucracy while offering significant benefits of the single market – something which could not be guaranteed outside the union."

*could not be guaranteed"

“At a time of severe price volatility and global market uncertainty I believe it would be wrong to take a leap into the dark,” she told 1,300 conference delegates.

If only it was just "global trends" we had to contend with

The "massive success" of coronavirus

I cover that in depth here

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1298934733813014528

Anyway back to Liz

“The years of complication and risk caused by negotiation withdrawal would be a distraction from our efforts to build a world-leading food and farming industry"

Not to worry though

After all Michael and Boris wrote a plan

Not that we would need said plan of course

On the 24th June 2016

German businesses would have ordered the German chancellor crack the whip hand, stomp the heel of that boot down on the countries within the EUSSR/4th reich and order them to gift the UK unicorns

"However remaining part of a reformed EU would give Britain the chance to work to reduce bureaucracy and secure further reform while still enjoying the benefits the single market brought."

https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1081226310108745729

“At the moment we are part of the single market with access to 500million consumers, and we are part of making the rules. If we were to negotiate a deal we don’t know what that outcome would look like,” said Ms Truss.

See previous quotes

“If were to leave we would most probably have to follow the rules around trade regardless. If we wanted full access to the market we would likely have to accept free movement of about and still pay into the EU.”

“But the real answer is we don’t know exactly what it will look like – voting to leave really is a step into the unknown,” said Ms Truss.

She summed this up also in tweet form

See also

12th June 2016

"Ms Truss, Conservative MP for South West Norfolk, said there would be "very serious consequences" for trade and investment if the UK left the EU, adding: "What people in the Leave campaign are saying is 'We can have our cake and eat it'. We can't.""

Any way back to her change of mind

politicshome.com/news/article/l…

Ms Truss said she had believed there would be “massive economic problems” if Britain voted to leave the EU, but these had “not come to pass”.

Now

The above is bullshit

There have been economic consequences to leaving the EU

These have been offset by huge BOE and government efforts to try and limit and mitigate them

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1034127151874957319

So I forensically disassembled Liz Truss in an interview where she struggled to recall the legacy of years of her party's rule

She is one of those who sell "levelling up"

So a simple question is levelling up from WHAT?

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1202012607928061952

She seems to be quite good at remembering to keep her work calendar up to date

theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

So if austerity was a "massive success" to borrow a phrase from coronavirus

Why can't she recall the success of austerity and be proud of it and explain it and defend it

See also: A recently enobled Baroness

Instead

Her department spout bullshit about trade

Their output controlled by Dominic and his cult

Or worse

Not controlled by Dominic

But by those desperate to please Dominic

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1319572058360156160

Oh yes and that CANZUK bullshit

Here is a Trump appointee

Oh and here is a Clinton/Obama appointee

Oh yes and see also

The reality of protectionism

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1097950061286342657

Still nvm

The lies are so so comforting

As Mogg would put it

So so much winning

But anyway back to Liz

I admire Liz

She was open to changing her mind

That ability is a gift

But I want her to go one step further

Having changed your mind

Tell me what made you change it

I want to "believe" in the sunlit uplands to

Share the evangelisation Liz

If the future is bright

The future of "open global" Brexit Britain is so assured

Why can you not share it?

thisismoney.co.uk/wires/pa/artic…

A reminder

A daily reminder

Of the eternal hollow con

Sold by cheats, liars, frauds, fools, fantasists and racists

But worse

Is those who choose to sell it on after the date

Out of self serving career protecting desperation

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1321720205085736960

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