Truss tells the whole damn truth why England is ****** up.

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The Britain I grew up in is gone. Things are getting worse, and nobody wants to avert course. People are banged up for posts on Facebook, but Keir Starmer refuses to root out complicity and corruption by those in authority over the horrific rape gangs. Postmasters and postmistresses are driven to suicide because a rogue algorithm ruined their reputations, but the government can pay billions to hand over the Chagos Islands to China-aligned Mauritius. Economic stagnation and money-printing galore, but the Treasury and Bank of England manage to remain immune from criticism. Our country approaches South Africa-style blackouts, but Ed Miliband wants to build more windmills. Our prison system is bursting, but the Home Secretary is set to import more criminals. These are the most obvious examples that spring to mind, but, everywhere we look, the British state is failing – from contracting, to infrastructure, to welfare. What on Earth has gone wrong?

It would be tempting to blame Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, and it is certainly true that they are guilty of an arrogant belief in technocracy for which they are now being punished. But the problem is deeper and older than those two stooges. We have a very powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy, quangocracy, and judiciary, all of which have been captured by left-wing ideology and work only to ensure their own job security. The “impartial” civil service and “independent” bodies that were variously brought in to stop corruption and outsource decisions to experts have now become the masters, not the servants. Democracy is being undermined – so much so that what we call democracy in this country is being rejected by increasing numbers of young people....


It is hard to explain, to those who have not experienced being in government, the difficulties of keeping election promises when so much of the core architecture is controlled by those with an opposing view. Every day is a fresh breakout attempt from an ideological prison. It is not surprising that so many Ministers give up trying to effect change, and become creatures of the system; or why so many good people shy away from frontline politics in the first place.....

Meanwhile, Ministers have very little power over appointments, meaning that the civil service can and do pursue their own agendas....
This terrible mess has been a long time in the making. Power has been taken away from Parliament and amassed by the deep state over a period of at least one hundred years....

By the 1990s this bureaucracy was already too powerful. But Tony Blair turbocharged it all by embedding and empowering the deep state. His vision was of a Europeanised system with a separation of powers. Fundamental changes were made to our constitution and judiciary through far-reaching legislation like the Constitutional Reform Act and the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act. ...

First and foremost, through substantial legislative changes, we must return to the situation where once again Parliament is sovereign and the Executive is able to govern. That means repealing all of the laws that have created and cultivated the unelected state, including the Human Rights Act, the Climate Change Act, the Bank of England Act, the Equality Act, the Constitutional Reform Act, and the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act. We need to restore the role of the Lord Chancellor to that which existed prior to Blair’s constitutional vandalism, and abolish the Supreme Court he created. There must be a radical overhaul of Judicial Review, to restrict its ability to block the mandate of elected Ministers. We also need to leave supranational bodies which impinge on the sovereignty of elected governments, like the International Criminal Court and the European Convention on Human Rights....

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