The former Prime Minister claims the ‘woke’ police have stopped citizens ‘expressing perfectly normal views’
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has likened Britain to East Germany as she lamented an erosion of “free speech” during her latest tirade on the state of the UK.
The second instalment of the weekly The Liz Truss Show on Youtube saw Truss spend 54 minutes discussing the “woke” agenda that has overtaken the police and the judiciary and claim that you could now be arrested for “expressing perfectly normal views online”.
Truss, who spent just 45 days in office, said that foreigners were “afraid to step onto our shores for fear of being arrested”, and that “hate crime cases and cracking down on free speech” was being prioritised by police “over burglary and rape”.
“It’s considered worse to be a racist than a rapist”, she added.
The former Prime Minister was joined by three guests, Allison Pearson, Graham Linehan, and Lucy Connelly.
Lucy Connolly, from Northampton, was sentenced in October 2024 to two and a half years behind bars after admitting to inciting racial hatred.
Following the Southport stabbings, Connolly had encountered false information that the suspect was a Muslim asylum seeker who had come to the UK by small-boat.
In her now deleted X post, she called for mass deportations and to set fire to hotels housing immigrants. She added: “If that makes me racist, so be it.”
Truss said she had discussed Connolly’s case with far-right activist Charlie Kirk when he was still alive, and that it “brought to life just how bad it is”.
“It does feel like we’re living in East Germany”, she added. “Laws have been passed which are now being used against ordinary citizens expressing perfectly normal views online.
“Whether it’s the public order act, whether it’s the electronic communications act, a whole series of pieces of legislation effectively limited our liberty.”
Truss says her show will be the home of ‘counter-revolution’ and ‘lift the lid’ on the ‘fall of Britain’ (Photo: Rob Pinney/Getty Images)
Inspiration for Truss has come from America where she has spent time meeting with the Maga movement since losing her seat in parliament at the last general election.
Truss has now taken to Youtube making claims that the mainstream media “lies” and that the country has been captured by “wokeness”.
Truss claimed: “The police and the judiciary, once bastions of the traditionalist establishment, were captured by the woke left. The trans ideologues, the Islamists, and the neo-Marxists, now hold sway at senior levels.
“You now only get promoted as a police officer or a judge or a prosecutor if you spout DEI clap trap on woke nostrums.”
The former Prime Minister added that it was people with “traditional British political views” who were being arrested.
“We’re not seeing Zack Polanski is not getting arrested, is he? No. We’re not seeing a Jeremy Corbyn in the slammer, you know, it’s all people of a particular political view”, said Truss.
Columnist and guest Allison Pearson claimed that the MacPherson report, which was published in 1999 and found that the Met was institutionally racist, meant that the Met went “into overdrive about racism”.
She added that the College of Policing was a “nest of the wokest values you could possibly imagine. Every constable is a child of the MacPherson report. They are steeped in anti-racism, critical race theory.”
The Casey Review, published in 2023, found that the Met was guilty of institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia.
Pearson was placed under investigation last year for posting an image of two people of colour holding the flag of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a Pakistani political party founded by Imran Khan, alongside police officers from Greater Manchester police.
Having allegedly confused the flag with that of Hamas, and the identity of the police force, Pearson wrote a post targeting the Metropolitan police, which read: “How dare they. Invited to pose for a photo with lovely peaceful British Friends of Israel on Saturday police refused. Look at this lot smiling with the Jew haters.”
The investigation into Pearson’s social media posts was later dropped by Essex Police.