My Take | Surely, Ms Truss, you must be joking about Hong Kong?
- Failed UK premier says Article 23 security legislation threatens women and claims that Hong Kong’s female prison population is higher than Iran’s
Britain’s ghoulish Conservative politicians have their equivalent of the undead and zombies, of which the country’s shortest-serving prime minister Liz Truss is a prime example. These are people whose political careers are truly dead and buried, something obvious to everyone except themselves. And so they refuse to go quietly into the dark.
Having disgraced herself by her utter incompetence during just 49 days in office, the ex-premier has been trying to reanimate herself as the Cassandra of the West warning against the yellow peril of communist China, joining dozens of others in Washington, London and Brussels.
Most self-respecting newspapers in the UK wouldn’t even touch her opinionated drivel, so it’s left to the primary mouthpiece of the Conservative Party, the Telegraph, to run her latest piece. Let the drums roll, please: defending Hong Kong women’s rights because, get this, Beijing is repressing our women through the introduction of Article 23 security legislation.
It was International Women’s Day last Friday, that was the excuse. The Western media’s united front has been going after Article 23 – all the while cheering and defending the actual mass murders of women and children in Gaza by Israeli forces. Understandably, Truss thought she needed a fresh angle on Hong Kong.
Written with fellow ex-Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith, the day to celebrate women was therefore exploited for a very different agenda. The shamelessness is breathtaking. The pair actually did women a disservice.
“Hong Kong surprisingly has more female prisoners than Iran, where authorities flog women for refusing to cover their hair,” the pair thundered.