After their big launch conference in Westminster at the start of the month, the insurgent Right-wing Popular Conservatism movement is pushing for sign-ups to join the cause.
If you give them your details, the PopCon lot will keep you up to date with latest developments in their free-market crusade (and the latest thoughts on political strategy from their great patron Liz Truss, the short-serving former prime minister). So far they have dozens of yardbirds.
Things got off to a rather amusing start when some practical jokers realised they could make their names publicly available on the PopCon website when they signed up. The organisation was suddenly recruiting some curiously named crusaders like Hugh Janus, Cory Tunt, Lettuce Join and “PopCon sounds like a cola knock-off”.
Are these the “secret Tories” Truss, above, spoke of trying to recruit in her PopCon keynote speech? Perhaps not. A quick fix on the website yesterday solved the problem.
Truss will be taking her kitbag of radical ideas across the pond to the US this week for the Conservative Political Action Conference. Other speakers include Donald Trump.
Today Truss writes for Fox News: “I come with a warning to America, in particular aimed at my friends and allies in the Republican Party – the sister party of the British Conservatives. This is not a normal political battle that we need to fight.”
“And in a vital election year for the U.S.,” she goes on, “it is why we don't just need a conservative in the White House. We need one who is able to take on the deep rot of the deep state and lead the free world.”
