Private Eye foresaw ‘delusional’ attack made by Liz Truss
Satirical magazine Private Eye anticipated Liz Truss’s attack on the ‘lefty’ financial markets that helped destroy her premiership.
As the pound crashed and bond prices wobbled in the wake of her September mini-budget, the magazine claimed sources in her circle had blamed the ‘carnage’ on ‘woke lefties’.
‘This is just typical of the right-on lefty Masters of the Universe in the City, with their million-pound lefty mansions, lefty-liberal Maserati and Ferrari sports cars and massive million-pound lefty donations to the Conservative Party,’ it jokingly quoted a No.10 spokesman as saying.
‘Oh my Lord she rewrote it and put it in The Torygraph,’ tweeted Private Eye writer Tom Jamieson yesterday. ‘Incredible! Scaling previously unknown levels of delusion. Should charge her for reprinting it.’
Readers were quick to congratulate the magazine on its foresight.
‘As many have pointed out, satire and reality are now so closely aligned, it’s hard to tell one from the other.
This proves it,’ tweeted one. Another added: ‘What confuses me is if everyone in the City is a woke leftie, how come they all end up standing for election as Conservative MPs?’
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