Mayfly-like former prime minister Liz Truss has railed against plenty of things since being dispatched from office after 45 days: the global elite, the Bank of England, the deep state, the media, Uncle Tom Cobley and all. But now she has set her sights on another dangerous opponent: the London Olympics opening ceremony 13 years ago.
As part of her tour of interviews with right wing US pundits, Truss this week gave an interview to Ben Shapiro on “the shameful state of Britain and the free speech crisis” in which she gave both barrels to Danny Boyle’s widely-admired 2012 ceremony, Isles of Wonder.
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“The views expressed, you know, in the Olympic ceremony are not the views of the average Briton,” she told her interviewer. “The problem is that we have an elite that hates Britain. We need to galvanise the people who are patriots in our country, but they have been neglected, they generally don’t live in London, they live in small towns, they live in rural areas, they don’t have much of a voice and what is happening is that the elite are trying to suppress those voices,” continued Truss, who continues to live in Greenwich, south-east London.
Truss is apparently distancing herself from the Liz Truss who, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in 2019 ruling herself out of the race to succeed Theresa May as Tory leader, said: “I think we need to revive what I call the Olympics 2012 spirit [with] a modern, patriotic, enterprising vision of Britain and we need to use Brexit to achieve that.” Fancy!
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