Foreign Interference: Biden Blunders Diplomatically by Criticising UK PM over Tax Cuts at Ice-Cream ParlourJack Montgomery 16 Oct 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden has made another diplomatic blunder, publicly denigrating Prime Minister Liz Truss over her attempt to cut taxes.
Biden, 79, perpetrated the gaffe during one of his classic ice-cream-slurping photo-ops in Delaware, after being asked about Prime Minister Truss’s current difficulties in government.
The newly-minted British premier attempted to cut the top rate of income tax on earnings over £150,000 from 45 per cent to 40 per cent — where it sat from 1989 until the final month of the last Labour government in 2010 — but had to U-turn after a concerted campaign by central bankers, the establishment media, the political left, conservatives-in-name-only within her own party, and forces within “the market” hostile to so-called “unfunded” tax cuts.
She was also forced to sack her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, and replace him with Jeremy Hunt — an anti-Brexit lockdown authoritarian with links to China, decisively rejected by ordinary Conservative Party members in a 2019 leadership contest.
Biden might have been expected to maintain a diplomatic silence on Truss’s domestic issues, given Britain’s status as an important NATO ally, but he instead chose to deride and patronise the British premier.
“Well, it’s predictable,” he jeered, ice-cream in hand, twisting the knife by adding, slightly incoherently: “I mean, it was… I wasn’t the only one that thought it was a mistake.”
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