Truss told the rightwing event that the left was “winning the argument” by rebranding “socialism” as “the environment”, “human rights” or “equality” – “but what they mean is they mean divisive identity politics”.

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    About 1,000 people at the CPAC conference in Brisbane also heard the former Conservative party leader blame the “unelected Bank of England”

    Demanding elections for businesses? That’s sounds a bit like socialist rhetoric, Comrade Liz!

    Truss said that while many were campaigning against conservatives, “the public” was on their side.

    Ahh, the ‘silent majority’ routine! It’s funny how the article has to constantly use scare quotes when repeating all these nebulous spooky concepts like ‘the argument’ and ‘the public’. What argument? Which public? The publics which voted out ‘conservative’ parties in Britain and Australia?

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      The silent majority argument feels like ‘girlfriend goes to another school’ argument of politics.

      And if a bunch of people were to believe something, but aren’t vocal about it, doesn’t that mean they either don’t care or know it’s wrong to some extent?

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        legit, I’ve just started slinging that back when they go on about “the public” or “the majority” or other nebulous bullshit.

        you wouldn’t know them. they go to another school

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          Yeah the public majority all agree. You wouldn’t know them, they live in America.

          (or wherever their troll farms are outsourced to this year)

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      The same unelected Bank Of England that pretty much saved the economy from unelected Prime Minister Liz Truss? Almost as though sometimes you just need experts who understand what they’re doing in charge of things.