Trussed Up Like A Chicken

I confess I haven't the foggiest idea what Mary Elizabeth Truss, Britain's next script-reader-in-chief, is promising to do after the ex-PM hands her the keys to Downing Street. That kind of tale-telling  happens on television and radio, which cannot touch me. I know exactly what she will do, however. Truss will do what she is told, just like her predecessors Johnson, May and Cameron. They are four of a kind, each one a well-trained, pre-selected model from the Oxbridge prime-minister factory. 

  

Like Cameron, May and Johnson, Truss graduated from Oxford. Although her university years were spent loudly banging the Liberal Democrat drum, the young Truss quickly jumped ship to the Conservative Party the moment she left college and confronted reality. That was 1996, and by 1998 she was well into the game, learning what you must do to get elected. 

Ostensibly working for the globalist giant Shell, between 1996 and 2000 Truss was burrowing her way deep into the belly of the Conservative Party. At local and national levels, she made herself known to everyone who mattered. In 2000 she moved to the ambitious communications company Cable & Wireless, which had just bought a dozen Internet Service Providers spread across ten european countries. 

The following year, 2001, Liz Truss made her first appearance in a general election as Conservative candidate for the (unwinnable) West Yorkshire seat. This was, of course, a 'dry run'. She stood no chance of success, but increased the Tory vote by 4%, demonstrating to the Party her suitability for office.

It's worth noting how Truss, like Johnson and May before her, was given -and kept-  well-paid jobs with elite companies despite very clearly intending to ditch them when elected to Parliament. This is not because corporations are generous regarding their employees' personal ambitions.  In fact, such relationships reveal the strands that bind parliament so closely to the corporations, and expose -in a small way- the strings that animate the puppets in power.           

In 2002, Truss turned a corner, embracing a political cliche as old as blackmail itself. As one newspaper described it "To improve her chances of securing a more winnable seat next time, she was assigned a political mentor in Mark Field, the MP for Cities of London and Westminster." In fact Truss -just three years into her marriage- would soon begin shagging the Right Honourable Mark until their affair was uncovered in 2005. 

This adulterous adventure was, of course, a pivotal moment in her career, as Truss was now heavily compromised and would henceforth be controlled by Party insiders who could end or advance her career at will. Subsequent events suggest that Truss came willingly to heel. (As did her husband, who 'loyally' decided to stick with his faithless spouse on her ride to the top). 

MARK FIELD

For his part, legover enthusiast Mark Field was never anything but a lowbrow Conservative nonentity, dedicated to a lifetime of Party service, dating from his days at Oxford University (where else?) A venal, amoral yes-man, he is also an active member of various Freemasonic groups including those operating  within Westminster itself. [CLICK HERE to read: "Freemasons in Government"] 

In any event, Field had delivered the 30 year-old Liz Truss into the hands of the Party controllers -and her career quickly took off. 

In the general election of 2005, Sue Catling -a Tory Parliamentary candidate in (unwinnable) Yorkshire was shoved out of the picture by the Party leadership, allowing Truss another practise run at the electoral process. The following year, 2006, Truss succeeded in the Greenwich Council elections and served faithfully as Conservative Councillor for Eltham South until the general election of 2010. 

THE A TEAM

By 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron had placed Councillor Truss on his "A List".  This meant two things: (1) Truss was guaranteed to obey orders and (2) On the fast-track to the Cabinet. The 2010 general election was, for Truss, a formality. She was gifted a safe-seat in the Westminster poodles-club, and became MP for  South West Norfolk - a constituency that would elect a chimpanzee if it came wearing a blue rosette. Truss was now 35 and eager to please.

In 2014 she discovered the perils of Ministerial leap-frog, serving two years as Environment Secretary and three as Justice Secretary before a sideways shove made her the powerless Chief Secretary to the Treasury. This non-promotion was most definitely the work of her various Ministerial rivals who correctly saw the upwardly-mobile Truss as a potential threat to their own leadership ambitions. Her boss at the Treasury was the thoroughly unloveable Philip Hammond, who Prime Minister Theresa May detested. It is rumoured in Westminster that Truss was really placed in Hammond's office to supply inside info on his plans and activities direct to May at number 10.

In support of that theory, after Hammond resigned (under duress) in 2019, his Chief Secretary was soon back at the top table. Having loudly supported Boris Johnson during his ascent to the Party Leadership, two days before her 45th birthday Liz Truss was rewarded with the prestigious -and globally significant- post of Secretary of State for International Trade. The timing of this was convenient, as the final preparations for the coming pandemic were, by this point, being cemented by the World Health Organisation and the World Economic Forum at Davos. 

As the clock ticked down towards the launch of  Covid-19, Truss was everywhere that mattered, hob-nobbing with Klaus Schwab's  WEF, the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and everyone else with political ambitions on the global stage. The idea that she was unaware of those Covid preparations -if not actively involved in them- is not credible. Truss was, however,  guaranteed to emerge unscathed from the Coronapanto, as International Trade would -for the next two years- be the last thing on anyone's mind.  

As the pandemic fiasco petered out, Truss was promoted again, becoming Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs - a much coveted post, because the general public have no idea what such a minister is actually responsible for, and tend not to blame them for anything in particular. Chancellor Sunak and Health Secretary Javid were dripping in Covid mud by the time the Conservative leadership "contest" began -but Truss was squeaky clean. 

MEET THE NEW BOSS

The path to number 10 is now open and -judging by the fawning media commentary- strewn with rose petals to honour la Truss en route to the hot seat. I don't know what she's pretending to 'stand for' so I can't assess any of the guff she spouted on her way up the greasy pole, from the arms of Mark Field to the pockets of Klaus Schwab. But one recent quote did bring a smile to my face. " I share the values of the Christian faith and the Church of England," she said. I suspect in politispeak this translates as I'm not a Muslim like You Know Who, nod, wink.

Mary Elizabeth Truss, after a mere twelve years in the Westminster sweatshop, is poised to collect the shiny brass ring of success. Behind closed doors they will fit it in her nose, attach the chain and lead her to the Promised Land.   

Ian Andrew-Patrick

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