The British Deep State That Deposed Prime Minister In 44 Days

Описание: by Breccan F. Thies - The Federalist
Liz Truss, the former British prime minister who only lasted 44 days in office, is sounding the alarm on the permanent bureaucracy, or the deep state, which she believes poses the biggest existential threat to Western civilization.

“The Prime Minister vs. The Blob,” a documentary from Palladium Productions and the Wall Street Journal Opinions section, dives into Truss’ short tenure as a case study in which a world leader can effectively be deposed by the self-proclaimed expert class of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats (which the British not-so-affectionately call “The Blob”).

Truss’ account of the problem in Britain is not unlike the rot experienced in the American administrative deep state, known as The Swamp: An arrogant group of technocrats who believe they should have the power to dictate their worldview to the populace and see the people of their own country as a cultureless and bitter enemy.

“In Britain, we now have a party of the left-wing establishment, which is the Labour Party. Rachel Reeves [Chancellor of the Exchequer] is a former Bank of England economist, Keir Starmer [Prime Minister] is a former Director of Public Prosecution,” Truss, a member of the Conservative Party, said at an early viewing of the documentary at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C. “These are these are the creatures of The Blob, and that is what the Labour Party now: It represents the public sector, it represents the liberal elite who live in cities, it represents the liberal media.”

“It’s a groupthink shared by senior media executives, senior corporate executives, civil servants: ‘Wouldn’t it be better if experts and technocrats were running everything?'” she explained in the film. “That’s a whole shared belief system: Big spending, big government, big taxes, big immigration.”

Lasting between September and October of 2022, Truss’ tenure took place between that of fellow Conservatives Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, and began in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

While Truss described the leadership of both Johnson and Sunak as being fundamentally non-threatening to, or even advancing, the despotism of The Blob, she described her mindset coming into office as wanting to confront them.