Liz Truss puts Britain on course to an uncivil war

Head to head. Photo by Richard Lee on Unsplash

Britain wouldn’t be Britain if it didn’t routinely send up people in authority, especially if those people say silly things that also happen to be mean.

Librium Liz, otherwise known as Prime Minister Liz Truss, has set off the wags with her comments about Britain’s “anti-growth coalition”.

At the Conservative Party conference, Ms Truss read out a list of groups and individuals she blamed for Tory failures to deliver over 12 years in government. It encompassed much of the country because it counted the 48 per cent who voted against Brexit, everyone who worries about environmental degradation, Labour and Liberal Democrat Party members, Scottish nationalists, trade unionists, talking heads and think-tankers, as well as, according to Ms Truss, “north London” townhouse-occupants who take taxis to BBC studios to participate in “broadcasts and podcasts”.

When she said the words “anti-growth coalition”, her Conservative party audience dutifully clapp…