Very funny bit in this interview where Liz Truss talks about free speech so @weisenthal.bsky.social asks about support for Palestine Action, to which Truss affirms they support terrorism and justifies her stance by saying there are organisations allowed in the UK that aren’t in Arab countries (???).
Mumbles non-specifically for a few seconds on free speech and supporting the speech of people she opposes before quickly pivoting to Lucy Connolly and what a travesty it was that a woman inciting pogroms pled guilty to incitement. Ho-hum!
Weisenthal quite sharply asks her if it would have been okay for Connolly to call for people to burn down a synagogue, which Truss defends by stating Connolly wasn’t talking about a specific hotel. 🙃
A lot of people got a bit angry about this interview when it dropped but having listened to the Eric Adams interview I had other thoughts. Quite clever to give her 20 minutes to discuss monetary policy and then let her descend into rambling about child rape and two-tier Britain.
Best bit of political spin in the entire interview is when Truss defends her mini budget by saying she was ‘democratically selected’ to lead the country.