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Sunak urged to act against Truss for spreading rightwing conspiracy theories (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Conservative MP, who is releasing a book called Ten Years to Save the West, argued that the left had infiltrated public and private institutions in “the deep state” and sabotaged her efforts to cut taxes and reduce the size of government.

Truss was forced out of office by her own party after her chancellor presented a budget of £45bn in unfunded tax cuts, which unleashed economic chaos, sent interest rates soaring and caused people to pay more for their mortgages.

Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow paymaster general, said Sunak should address Truss’s comments and take action. “After crashing the economy and sending mortgages rocketing, Liz Truss is now spreading conspiracy theories with Steve Bannon and spearheading a wacky fringe group to take over the Tory party again.

“If Rishi Sunak had any backbone he would stand up and take action against her and Tory MPs indulging this sort of damaging nonsense.

The Liberal Democrats called for Truss to give back the £115,000 allowance for post-ministerial life she was given after leaving office.

“This Conservative party love-in for rightwing American politics is like watching a slow-moving car crash. These bizarre conspiracy theories pedalled by Truss and her cabal should have no place in British politics. Blue wall voters will run a mile from this nonsense,” said Daisy Cooper, the party’s deputy leader.

“Liz Truss was never fit to be prime minister and certainly is not fit to be given a six-figure allowance of taxpayers’ money. It represents another slap in the face to all those paying hundreds of pounds more a month on their mortgages due to her disastrous policies and should be stripped immediately.”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don't get punished for not doing your job as an MP. Just ask John Stonehouse.

It should be. The UK political system needs urgent and humongous reform before further trust in the democratic institutions withers away.

[–] fcuks 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

completely agree, what would you do to reform it out of interest?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Short answer: policies over parties and making politics more accessible to the public who wish to be fairly represented.

Weaken the power of all political parties. Policy groups and think tanks are allowed to form around single policies but not be a political group represented on the ballot box.

All policy groups get a fixed campaigning budget from the government they can not exceed. Benefits in kind are also counted to discourage corruption. All contributions are to be declared publicly and the named private individuals must be the sole source of the capital contribution.

MPs wishing to stand for election must declare the specific policies they support. They get a single A3 poster to be displayed in the polling station with the policies they support on it.

Polcies, must be stated in SMART format as any sensible manager would set for objectives: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Each element of the SMART layout may not exceed 2 side of A4, meaning a maximum of 10 pages for each policy.

Replace First Past The Post with Marked Preference.

Prime Minister is directly elected by the public from the pool of elected MPs through Marked Preference.

Create Citizen assemblies to tackle keystone reforms as they have been shown to have had great success in Ireland and other countries. Citizen assembly budgets are double that of private policy groups to keep the balance of money in politics firmly in favour of the majority not the few.

Slowly replace the House of Lords with the House of Assemblies. Those that have previously served in Citizen Assemblies are chosen at random to serve in the new House of Assemblies. The commissions works currently undertaken by the House of Lords, i.e. most of the work they do outside of scrutinising policy proposals, to be given to a technocratic jury of experts in their respective fields.

The creation of a federated civic social network to act as an online public space and centre for all e-government services (local, regional, and national).

And finally, some other reforms that also affect politics:

Everyone's tax records are publicly available. This is already a reality in Finland.
All print, broadcast, and digital media companies that style themselves as "News" must adhere to the "fair and balanced" doctrine which will be over seen by an independent watchdog with powers to punish those seeking to spread disinformation.