The Druggy Hard-Right Horror Show Behind Liz Truss’ Flaky Leadership

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The media circus around the death of the queen has distracted from some extremely sinister goings-on. The Tory Party shifted further to the right than it has been in living memory, which will blight millions of lives, while the public was expected to shed tears on command for an old lady who paid millions to stop her sinister son facing his sexual assault accuser in court.

Differences between social liberalism and neoliberalism are rarely explained by the media, but it is critical to understand them to see what Liz Truss and her cronies are doing. Liberalism is a philosophy based upon the concepts of freedom and equality. Neoliberalism is often deceitfully linked to social and political liberalism in order to accuse those who criticise it of hindering human freedom. In reality, neoliberalism, which promotes freedom of rich people to do what they want with little political or legal intervention, often robs individuals of liberty and hinders social progress towards equality.

This malicious linguistic trickery allows extreme right-wing agendas (such as Brexit) to be presented as though liberation, such as in bullshit ‘freeing ourselves from regulations’ narratives. In reality, those regulations protected our rights and freedoms — and so doing away with them is far from socially liberal. They are a…