Liz Truss Is Just the Latest Failed Leader Exploiting America

Apr 23 2024 by The Daily Beast

 
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Call them the FLEAS: Failed Leaders Exploiting America.

Much like the third-tier expat British bankers in Hong Kong once known as the FILTH (Failed in London, Try Hong Kong), a steady stream of disgraced British politicians are now beating a path across the Atlantic, reinventing themselves as political seers with the aid of a flattering chyron and a cut-glass British accent.

Take, for example, the latest of these arrivals, Liz...

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