The untold story of Liz Truss's chaotic 49 days in No 10
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7 місяців томуA year ago today, Liz Truss stood in Downing Street at the start of her premiership promising “action every day”. Over the tumultuous 49 days that followed, her time as prime minister was derailed by a series of U-turns, market shocks and a pervading sense of chaos. We go behind the scenes with Truss's biographer on the shortest ever stay in No 10.
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@berniebarclay2183 7 місяців тому
I lived in her constituency until earlier this year and came across her a few times. It was clear that she was really sub par intellectually. She would have been a mediocre office manager at best. What she did have was ambition, a total lack of shame and the morals of an alley cat. Total disaster for the country.
@helveticaification 7 місяців тому
To enjoy 'the morals of an alley cat' she would have needed much more agility, talent and appeal. As well as some fur.
@SuperStella1111 7 місяців тому
Office managers have talent - multi-tasking, people skills, technical skills. I’m thinking you’re underrating one or seriously over-estimating her.
@osric1730 7 місяців тому
That was obvious when she started sabre rattling over Moldova. A complete gobshite prepared to court any controversy, blissfully unaware of and unconcerned with consequence beyond generating a headline in the Daily Mail. She failed because she was operating way above her pay grade. Markets may like "Free Market" determinism because they make money out of it, but since 2008 they know its garbage and there's only so much of these handouts from the state they can absorb before the "medicine" kills the patient that provides the magic money tree that feeds them. Providing free money with interest rates massively below inflation is not "Free Market" economics, its corporate socialism and Truss and her ilk think they can provide infinite welfare for the rich with state subsidy from a nation teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Not even the markets buy that even when they profit from it.
@goodlookinouthomie1757 7 місяців тому
Lucky she didn't last long. Her policies would surely have caused inflation... phew...
@medalion1390 7 місяців тому
@@SuperStella1111 Not all office managers, some are often people who just fail upwards.
@bigblue6917 7 місяців тому
Someone said she is intelligent. I believe that person should be receiving treatment.
@pauln6803 7 місяців тому
She could well be. The problem is when hubris eclipses intellect.
@tonupharry 7 місяців тому
Intelligence. The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge. Clearly she lacks this ability
@occamraiser 7 місяців тому
'intelligent' compared to them perhaps.
@LaReynedEpee 7 місяців тому
Someone who knew her at uni said she was as thick as two short planks, so take what you hear with a pinch of salt 😄
@bigblue6917 7 місяців тому
@@LaReynedEpee I was never taking it seriously. I was just one of those things politicians say which no one believe. Frankly I never understand why they say it as even they don't believe it. That much salt would be fatal.
@DirtiestDeeds 7 місяців тому
The "untold" story of Liz Truss's chaotic 49 days in No 10 is still being played out in our mortgage repayments.
@ianedmonds9191 7 місяців тому
Mine went up again yesterday. Now 9.34%!!!!!!
@sonofsomerset1695 7 місяців тому
Funny how the markets got even worse under Sunak, yet the media didnt call for his resignation because they dont mind when a globalist puppet is in charge after their coup to force out Truss.
@frankd2392 7 місяців тому
Nothing to do then with rising interest rates internationally ??
@zoso7889 7 місяців тому
@@frankd2392Mostly no. The initial spike was a direct result of the run on pension funds and spooked markets that immediately followed Kwartangs mini budget.
@SimonNoina 7 місяців тому
She was essentially 'used' as a scapegoat for what had unavoidably become the end of any scope for continued extent of quantitative easing mechanism, that kept interest rates ridiculously low for more than a decade - it had to be shattered and reset. The 'powers' decided that pretty much whatever she and Kwartaeng said or advocated would be 'used' and 'blamed' for what economically, had to be done anyway and was overdue literally any minute... nothing really to do with her or Kwartaeng at all.. I'm not defending or promoting them both in any way or any direction - just saying, in my opinion, how it was and is
@stealmysunshine 7 місяців тому
I think the queen gave up when she realised that Truss was her Prime minister. Poor old dear had had three years of weekly meetings with Johnson and now had to face the same with her. Surely at some point she thought " my first Prime minister was Winston Churchill. This is my latest one. I'm done now"
@Rebecca-oh5yh 7 місяців тому
I can't say she was wrong.
@muirislandjim453 7 місяців тому
De Pfeffel Johnson lied to the Queens face. Worst Government in living memory.
@simonzai7386 7 місяців тому
Ha! I've just made the same point.Great minds
@glennthompson1971 7 місяців тому
Liz Truss killed the Queen - with despair
@neillynch_ecocidologist 7 місяців тому
Poor old Queenie! _The non-thinking idiot's favourite parasite!_
@miras2222 7 місяців тому
boasting over self confidence is usually coupled with very low competence truss is a perfect example
@wendysimpson6395 7 місяців тому
Dunning-Kruger personified.
@miras2222 7 місяців тому
@@wendysimpson6395 exactly
@williamparker1085 7 місяців тому
as is Trump
@BillyP13 2 дні тому
It’s called narcissistic behaviour.
@kev643 7 місяців тому
And remember the TORIES ALL cheered like overgrown public school students as our economy was ruined.
@lesigh1749 7 місяців тому
Your taxes were raised and your cost of living went through the roof after Truss was replaced and you cheered for all of that because "net zero" and "we stand with Ukraine". Now as of todays vote on Sunaks energy bill you face fines of £15,000 and a year in prison if you dont bring your own house up to whatever eco nonsense standard they order. You will have to spend whatever they say from your own pocket and you will pay and pay again, and you still wont think about it. You are lost.
@pauln6803 7 місяців тому
And THIS is what the Tory membership wanted. Not even Robin Hood in reverse Sunak with his snatching funds for deprived areas to give to wealthy Tory market towns could persuade them out of wanting Dizzy Lizzie and Kamikwasi Kwarteng who then flushed £30bn down the drain, all because they selfishly wanted a tax cut. Yes Tory boys and girls, this is on you.
@redemptivepete 7 місяців тому
Absolutely. Labour need to play that in Electoral Broadcasts. They should also play Sunsk's bloopers .... boasting about diverting public money to rich areas not knowing anyvworking class people etc. to the soundtrack of 'Everybody's talking!' Eords suit that spiv.
@sonofsomerset1695 7 місяців тому
You'll be voting for Reform then, or youre even dumber to think Labour will be any better when they've even thicker.
@leroysimon5692 7 місяців тому
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@simongoddard8490 7 місяців тому
‘In Liz we Truss’.... never forget that Sun headline.
@markmoran916 7 місяців тому
Yes the newspaper of choice for the thicks 😂😂
@ChrisSmith-yh9bq 7 місяців тому
Adult comic seems apt.
@pgtipz7468 4 місяці тому
She was backed by The Times, The Mail etc as well
@iroscoe 7 місяців тому
Matthew Parris has it right about her "A planet sized mass of over ambition and confidence tetering on a pin sized political brain" .
@LaReynedEpee 7 місяців тому
The tragedy for all of us is that such talentless clowns are allowed to advance to this level.
@chris6559 7 місяців тому
Thanks for that, hadn’t heard that one, Parris nailing it again 😂
@jorybennett5932 7 місяців тому
Wonderful quote!
@segue2ant395 7 місяців тому
All the confidence, none of the competence. Dangerous combo.
@sonofsomerset1695 7 місяців тому
Youre right, she was dumb to resign to the Sunak coup, aided by globalist media like the Times, as this propaganda demonstrates.
@truebluehube 7 місяців тому
She should be in Broadmoor.
@dianamincher6479 7 місяців тому
Yeah, she was conscious all the time!
@billysastard8779 7 місяців тому
I was wondering if its a prison or mental asylum... :D
@davidprosser457 7 місяців тому
She should be in the ground
@johnrhodes3350 7 місяців тому
There's many with a severe Personality Disorder that really ought to be isolated for the protection of society
@leroysimon5692 7 місяців тому
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@rafaelmartinvannostrand2084 7 місяців тому
"I'm not a quitter, I'm a fighter" She resigned two days later.
@riccardo-964 7 місяців тому
Perhaps she's a 'resigner' then
@TheSuperPsychoKiller 7 місяців тому
I thought she resigned less than 24 hours later after she said that.
@todorkolev7565 7 місяців тому
she fought the British economy and it appears that she won!
@jeffbezos8570 7 місяців тому
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@stevenhoward3358 7 місяців тому
perhaps her puppet masters at the IEA couldn't hold her up any longer
@sphinx1017 7 місяців тому
If I were Truss, I'd hide my face away forever more but she seems to have no shame at all.
@leroysimon5692 7 місяців тому
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@johnreed8336 7 місяців тому
Typical of a narcissist I think .
@1701enter 7 місяців тому
How long before this disaster did no one spot the woman had a vacant look, saying stuff that chimed with whatever was being discussed? And remember this was the best they could come up with...and what truly galls me is that she gets 100,000 a year for life for wrecking the entire country
@davidr7819 7 місяців тому
Yes, so vacant! Utterly untroubled by coherent thought
@NeilPeelParanormalPeepShow 7 місяців тому
That salary for the rest of her life is so grotesque. Anyone else forced out of a normal job is never going to be treated in such a way. So effing crooked this look after the boys in the club country.
@IshtarNike 7 місяців тому
@@NeilPeelParanormalPeepShow*fired for nearly bankrupting the company. Not just forced out lol.
@Harlequin1951 7 місяців тому
£185,000 🤔
@extramild1 7 місяців тому
When your electorate is the kind of person who is a member of the Conservative party you are always going to be in trouble.
@VmanVaults 7 місяців тому
She was so grotesquely out of her depth, and anyone with a single brain cell should’ve been able to see that a mile off.
@johnwright9372 7 місяців тому
Some of us did. Pity the Tory faithful never will.
@stealmysunshine 7 місяців тому
She is the only answer to the question "who would make a worse Prime minister than Boris Johnson?"
@yegmeshjwp 7 місяців тому
They knew, she served her purpose in making short term gains for those in the know at the cost of the UK overall.
@VmanVaults 7 місяців тому
@@johnwright9372 Yep. They still doubling down.
@VmanVaults 7 місяців тому
@@stealmysunshine That’s a close call.
@emilymcplugger 7 місяців тому
“At last. The first true Tory budget”. Result: f’kin disaster!
@barbararice6650 7 місяців тому
Oh well hire a west african get west african results 😐
@peterbeegan2073 7 місяців тому
My favourite 44 days of British politics, ever. Couldn't script it. Thanks for the memories...
@nifralo2752 Місяць тому
What about Maybot's conference where the stage fell apart
@Msax50 2 дні тому
Monty Python could have scripted it but it would have been funnier
@rolandnelson6722 7 місяців тому
A historic figure, not for the reasons anyone would want.
@toby1248 7 місяців тому
She won't be remembered for much. She didn't even cause much long term damage in the end because Jeremy hunt mostly cleaned up her mess when she was done playing In 20 years she will be completely forgotten
@vanCaldenborgh 7 місяців тому
@@toby1248 She will live on to be a typical pub quiz question: "Who was the shortest-lived PM?
@rolandnelson6722 7 місяців тому
@@vanCaldenborgh What do you get if you know of somebody that pinched somebody else’s bottom?
@piccalillipit9211 7 місяців тому
*YOU HAVE SPENT YOUR LIFE* Having talks and deciding what you would do if you ever got to the top, you have it all planned out, you get there, you make the big announcement of your life... *AND THE ECONOMY EXPLODES*
@rolandnelson6722 7 місяців тому
@@piccalillipit9211 spent her whole life dreaming of power for its own sake. To fill a hole. Not dreaming of what to do. Never crossed her mind. Just dreaming of the power.
@laurence2824 7 місяців тому
The fact confirmed to me most depressingly in this (rather good) documentary is quite how little the current Tory party cares about the welfare of the electorate. Even as a Labour voter (which is what I am!) I readily acknowledge that John Major was a compassionate man with a profound sense of justice and common decency. This sense of appropriate behaviour, since the grotesque hubris of Johnson's premiership, appears to have been completely abandoned by the current Tory leadership. There was something footballer's-wife-like about the whiney coarseness and champagne-drinking selfishness of Truss and her cronies - utterly repulsive!
@Linda-iy3qh 7 місяців тому
Such an interesting analysis of the disaster that was Liz Truss. I’m amazed that she is still around Parliament in any capacity. This was a fascinating. Thank you.
@sonofsomerset1695 7 місяців тому
Yeah this was a great piece of propaganda to cover up their soft coup.
@mhoppy6639 7 місяців тому
She’s totally unabashed and outrageously is trying to rehabilitate her time in office even now. A complete loon.
@julianmorrisco 6 місяців тому
@@sonofsomerset1695😂
@wagabondpickles6183 6 місяців тому
What does that say about the Conservative party, and its internal processes and mechanisms for ensuring the UK and its people are always put above the party members' emotions and loyalties?
@martinshephard6317 6 місяців тому
She’s still there because of her ego and her complete lack of shame. A horrible example of ambition far exceeding talent and experience.
@RyanKeane9 7 місяців тому
She said “Let the markets decide” And then they did
@occamraiser 7 місяців тому
That is like putting your head in a lion's mouth and saying it is a sensible thing to do, because we are letting the lion decide.
@RyanKeane9 7 місяців тому
@@occamraiser after smothering your head with peanut butter
@lesigh1749 7 місяців тому
George Soros used the exact same markets to short the pound when the UK entered the ERM. It crashed the economy and made him billions in a single night, and showed the world how that trick works but YOU still act like its not possible that it could be done deliberately to get rid of a PM. She wanted to lower your taxes and energy bills, so she had to go, but the best part is they got YOU to thank them for getting rid of her even after you ended up paying twice as much as a result. What a clever boy you are.
@user-sd3ik9rt6d 7 місяців тому
The lefty woke capitalists....😅
@steven-el3sw 7 місяців тому
In a sane world, Liz Truss would be the accounts receivable clerk at a plumbing supply wholesaler.
@paulperry7091 7 місяців тому
But probably not a very good one.
@sonofsomerset1695 7 місяців тому
In a sane world Truss wouldnt have resigned so easily to this media coup.
@dixonpinfold2582 7 місяців тому
🤔 I don't know. An accounts receivable clerk at a plumbing supply wholesaler is a useful person.
@woongah 7 місяців тому
Nope. That position requires a degree of diligence and basic math skills that I doubt this Truss person could provide.
@chrischristofis8501 7 місяців тому
Noooo thats a job requiring some real ability 😂
@jonathonjubb6626 7 місяців тому
She turned out to be what she always appeared to be, unimpressive!
@Aco747lyte 7 місяців тому
'Mogadon Liz' - Liz Truss was so boring you could fall asleep to her. During her 49 days tenure at No 10, she and Kwasi Kwarteng put the country's finances into a black hole. Our country has, to date, never recovered. Except what has deeply infuriated me was, Liz never apologised. That is because she is a narcissist, and narcissists have not one shred of empathy. ...This video presentation was first class. 🌟
@Mike20216 7 місяців тому
Couldn't agree more, she's definitely a narcissist, but so very bad at politics.
@johnreed8336 7 місяців тому
Just wanted the title but not the job .
@fenlander7114 7 місяців тому
@@johnreed8336 and a six figure annual pension
@amteo7107 2 місяці тому
She could put a glass eye to sleep
@rowleybirkin3093 7 місяців тому
Promoted sooooooo far beyond her ability.
@Jan_von_Gratschoff 7 місяців тому
Liss Truss's ignorance of basic economics isn't just powerful, it's weapons grade. It was like watching a kid play at being Prime Minister. Laughable.
@MagnumMantisTobogganMD 7 місяців тому
Yet it's the exact sort of economic policy Tufton Street will continue to lobby for.
@katakisLives 7 місяців тому
Seems like she read trickle down economics' for beginners.
@tonupharry 7 місяців тому
Apparently if she didnt get her own way she would scream and scream a d scream until she felt sick
@LadyDiamondIsHereNow 7 місяців тому
A kid would do a better job
@Rebecca-oh5yh 7 місяців тому
She actually tanked the UK economy just by talking about her plans. It's actually impressive, in a perverse way.
@dreddguy6454 7 місяців тому
The fact that the rank & file tory party members voted for this woman. Because they believed she would offer them tax cuts at a "time of great economic international instability." Should tell you all you need to know about the tory party.
@willwhite1575 7 місяців тому
Maybe I am being unfair but I have always thought there was an element of the hard right 70 year old Tory members not wanting to vote for someone 'who looked a little different to them'.
@ianedmonds9191 7 місяців тому
@@willwhite1575 I bet that was indeed a thing.
@dreddguy6454 7 місяців тому
@@willwhite1575 For sure.
@paulvaughan3699 7 місяців тому
I believe it was Seneca who once said: "Liz Truss is a complete tool"
@simonzai7386 7 місяців тому
I've always maintained that seeing Truss in as PM was the final straw for the queen.She just gave in
@TheLucanicLord 7 місяців тому
She hung on till Boris was gone, thus denying him a chance to play at Churchill.
@CharmaineScammell 4 місяці тому
Charles' first words when he met her officially as PM were "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear" 😂😂
@pauln6803 7 місяців тому
The lettuce, the woman who boasted of selling tea - Yorkshire tea - to China. Ahh yes, the great tea plantations of Wakefield.😂
@Iazzaboyce 7 місяців тому
Yorkshire Tea is a UK product made in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK from tea leaves imported from Africa and India 'nowt' to do with 'China'!
@ForeverNeverwhere1 7 місяців тому
@@IazzaboyceWith your ability to completely misunderstand the point that badly, you could have easily been Liz truss' chief advisor. Maybe even chief policy maker.
@Iazzaboyce 7 місяців тому
@@ForeverNeverwhere1 Well, since you're so clever - why don't you explain the point? I'll put the kettle on...
@steverocky7215 7 місяців тому
Wakefield is Rhubarb not Yorkshire tea - that comes from Harrogate!
@LaReynedEpee 7 місяців тому
@@IazzaboyceBless
@djbrettell 7 місяців тому
I had no faith in her at all, so I already knew it was all going to go wrong. How could you not know this?
@sonofsomerset1695 7 місяців тому
Nothing went wrong due to her, the markets got even worse under Sunak and he wasnt forced to resign by the media.
@ryanharriss7950 7 місяців тому
@@sonofsomerset1695it's not about what went wrong, it's about confidence perhaps inspiration from leaders. She offered neither.
@sonofsomerset1695 7 місяців тому
@@ryanharriss7950 She was only in there a couple of weeks, most of which was taken up with dealing with the Queen's death, any lack of confidence was created by a concerted campaign by the media and Sunaks team to over turn the result, because she was remotely right wing unlike wishy washy globalist Sunak.
@Nick-xf5hr 6 місяців тому
Why oh why is she still given media time?
@sonofsomerset1695 6 місяців тому
@@Nick-xf5hr Bercause they have to keep brainwashing gullible people like you to hate her after they forced her out.
@sweeve3139 7 місяців тому
A sad reflection on those who voted for her
@horvathsogranfume658 7 місяців тому
a legend in her own mind
@exeterbeekeeper 7 місяців тому
SHE has a mind?
@viewfinder914 7 місяців тому
A legend that lasted a lunchtime...
@chrisbovington9607 6 місяців тому
"I have a dream ... it's batshit crazy."
@exeterbeekeeper 6 місяців тому
@@chrisbovington9607 her dream our nightmere
@Gizo02 7 місяців тому
If the Queen hadn’t died, and there wasn’t a 10 day pause with no business, wouldn’t the chaotic chain of events that occurred have been brought forward, and her time at no. 10 have been even shorter?
@charliedring4092 7 місяців тому
Questionable, She could have been the 14 day PM but there's a school of thought that the events surrounding the queens death and level of attention ministers were paying to policy caused the instability that pushed the government over the edge and that they could have survived if Britain wasn't in a state of such massive shock already.
@bookofshadows2755 4 місяці тому
I’d agree with that.
@diligentmindz 7 місяців тому
A great lesson as to why, in a democracy, ALL leaders must be elected in a public election. Not appointed in some internal party negotiation
@rossmurray6849 7 місяців тому
I'm an Australian, an island of political sanity on the other side of the world, and what you suggest would be the wrong lesson to learn. It is allowing party members to elect leaders which is the real problem! For small parties it doesn't matter but if the leader may become prime minister then it does. It is the MPs for major parties who should always elect their leaders. You can rely on them to be motivated by self-interest so then morons like Truss and Corbyn would never have become leaders of their parties.
@wendysimpson6395 7 місяців тому
And proportional representation.
@rossmurray6849 7 місяців тому
@@wendysimpson6395 I wholeheartedly agree that getting rid of first-past-the-post voting is the highest priority. I think the single transferable vote is better (we've used that in Australia in almost all elections for over 100 years) than proportional representation but either will do.
@johnburrows3385 7 місяців тому
To counter that statement, I give you Adolf Hiter ...... he was elected by the people 😮
@sonofsomerset1695 7 місяців тому
Sunak wasnt even appointed by his own party, yet you're upset Truss was at least, very strange.
@davidkruyer8048 7 місяців тому
I was a London taxi drive for 55 years andI become an expert on knowing what to expect from the majority of the public just within the first few minuets of contact it was somthing you realy had to learn to survive especially doing night work so after Lis Truss came up for prime minister I could not believe 😮 that it was true as not becouse she was a woman but after listening and watching her I was absolutely convinced she was a catastrophe waiting to happen but I did not think it would be that quick
@dondoodat 7 місяців тому
Thank goodness she wasn't in power any longer. Lettuce be grateful.
@DaveJohnEllis 7 місяців тому
A great listen but also frightening how fragile our democracy can be and how someone's ego can drive them, no matter how wrong they are.
@Detector1977 7 місяців тому
Most insane part is that she came out of it unscathed and is reasonably wealthy today cause she was a good girl doing what the think tanks on Tufton street wanted... And the fact that many tories want to do the same thing she did again believing it will work this time...
@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO 7 місяців тому
There are absolutely no repercussions for those who have power and status; whereas if someone on a minimum wage had caused even 25% of the damage she did they would be sacked.
@glyn6170 7 місяців тому
If The Dunning-Kruger Effect was ever designed to describe anyone, it was designed to describe Liz Truss.
@spankflaps1365 7 місяців тому
It was like Accrington Stanley getting a wild card entry to the Champions League final.
@stevev238 7 місяців тому
One season at a time- we're just waiting on a billionaire owner to kick-start thinks.
@matthewcoombs3282 7 місяців тому
After Cameron, May and Johnson, she was he last idiot standing. Also for the crusty old gammons of the Tory Membership was was not brown skinned like Sunak
@rolandnelson6722 7 місяців тому
This podcast is 1/2016th the length of her career at number 10.
@moochincrawdad 7 місяців тому
When mathematical reality crushes brexiteer Tory dreams! 🤣
@kyletitterton 7 місяців тому
Hearing her voice again gives me the boak.
@petertaylor1447 7 місяців тому
Excellent analysis and presentation. That Liz Truss should rise through the Conservative Party to achieve highest office says much about the Party since 2,010.
@lindawhitehead6149 7 місяців тому
I hope someone will make this into a mini series...I found your story fascinating and I am just a colonial from Canada...
@johannesnicolaas 3 місяці тому
Me too and I am living in Holland.
@Joe-og6br 7 місяців тому
Those few months starting with Boris having endless ministers quitting to Liz Truss stepping down was so surreal and entertaining yet had massive negative impacts on this country. The fact she planned for years to become leader and then failed so tremendously.
@gavinrowlands2325 6 місяців тому
It's was a good soap opera for the more concerning observer.
@jeanblyth6305 7 місяців тому
She did transform Britain. Wish we never heard of her 😱
@adama8570 7 місяців тому
Remember, initially Sunak LOST to the Truss woman! What does this tell you about Sunak????
@rogerphelps9939 7 місяців тому
not so much about Sunak, rather it speaks volumes about the Tory party.
@billysastard8779 7 місяців тому
It tells me he wasnt white enough. Easy as that. Racism.
@michaeladkins6 7 місяців тому
A lot of torys blamed Rishi for Boris' downfall.
@lesigh1749 7 місяців тому
@@rogerphelps9939 Well she tried to lower your taxes and energy bills, but the currency speculators that work for the WEF didnt like it so they shorted the pound to get rid of her, and YOU thanked them for it. Now you pay twice as much for energy and food under Sunak, and he just passed a bill to force you to spend money on a new boiler or go to prison. Happy now? You being oblivious to whats being done to you speaks volumes about you.
@goenzoy 7 місяців тому
Dont talk such utter nonsense. Someone needs to pay for energy Someone needs to pay for government expenses Nobody paying is simple not an answer. UK was simple not the only country paying higher energy price s last year .
@roxanaandrews2884 7 місяців тому
Yes you came into office at a very chaotic time and managed to make it so much worse!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@unusedsub3003 7 місяців тому
A prifoundly weird and cringey creature.
@micksmithson6724 7 місяців тому
She was a total disaster for this country, costing us 10s of £billions, but she will be OK, due to her Ex PM expenses. She has enormous self confidence, unfortunately for us this is totally misplaced. If she had any honour, she would go quietly and say nothing. But she hasn’t got the brains, or the honour to do that. I remember seeing that vacant look on her face as she struggled to find her way out of a room she had walked into just 20 minutes before. If it was up to me, I would prosecute her for treason
@Da1Dez 7 місяців тому
Will always remain to me my fav and most inspiring PM ever.... how you ask? Because she proves you can be a poor communicator yet get the highest job ever!
@a.d.clarke4990 6 місяців тому
- “I am a FIGHTER!” - “I resign as PM!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@bakedbean37 7 місяців тому
My old man lives in her constituency and is one of her voters. Semi literate, council house dwelling, working class, true blue, Sun reading Thatcher fan. Didn't have a clue why I was so upset last year watching how the Tory hustings was going down. I don't suppose he noticed her premiership because The Sun was too busy attacking the unions whilst she and her crew were trashing the place. I think he's still oblivious now (he is getting on a bit). He'll vote for her blue rosette again. Oblivious. Thanks dad. And the rest of you.
@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO 7 місяців тому
If any of my family or friends were Tory voters I would have no problem disowning them.
@bakedbean37 7 місяців тому
@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO When it's as bad as this and they still double down, yes, it's hard to maintain your cool. Because of the level of my old man's Sun induced ignorance I'm trying to compartmentalise and feel some pity. Not easy.
@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO 7 місяців тому
@@bakedbean37 I understand, it's difficult, plus it's different with each family 👍
@berniebarclay2183 7 місяців тому
Downham Market has got a lot to answer for.
@bakedbean37 7 місяців тому
@@berniebarclay2183 You should look up the post Truss vox pop video by Politics Joe filmed in Thetford (my home town) where the muppets are all just hankering for more Boris. That was an infuriatingly hard watch.
@davewarwick762 7 місяців тому
She never had the character that a priminister should have she was lame and dangerous. I find it amazing she still has the face to be in politics 😂
@dennwren 7 місяців тому
Great episode, we all need to remember the disaster that was Truss’s premiership. We will be paying the price for years.
@frankd2392 7 місяців тому
What nonsense
@paulc8754 6 місяців тому
How come? What disaster could unfold in two months? Fundamentals of economics, not hearsay. There was no disaster at all. While she was a very unsavoury character with no backbone under her skin and turn-coating for every single flag under which she served, there was NIL - ZILCH - ZERO net effect of her policies.This is simply an ignorant conclusion from those spreading the word, since policies to have a net effect there should be an economic cycle or significant turns in major value chains. The drop of the GBP against the USD was purely speculative, while the GBP to EUR FX showed a minor correction, with the FX now under the 'catastrophic' change during the very short tenure of Liz Truss. Europe remains the main trading partner for the UK, and the wet dreams of the BREXIT advocates represent the materialization of a disastrous move.
@user-db6wv4rd9m 7 місяців тому
And she still thinks she is competent and viable as an MP.
@jameswalker7459 7 місяців тому
49 days of shame,,,Rishi continues too shame uk will we ever get rid of this government???
@travisbarker5393 7 місяців тому
James Heale's closing words are: "She'll be a voice in the next Parliament. Whether or not she will be listened to is the key question". What a terrifying thought.
@geehothi4318 7 місяців тому
The Liz Truss autobiography should have been entitled “In the thick of it”.
@nidgehart 5 місяців тому
Certifiable!!!
@sunshinemanuk.9130 7 місяців тому
The person with a ' All the lights are on but no one is home ' look on her face.
@SibylleHyde 6 місяців тому
Liz's problem is that she even looks subpar intellectually even though she may not be. The irony is that she is a free market politician, yet it was the free market that judged her policies so negatively in the aftermath of the mini budget.
@EdwardRLyons 7 місяців тому
This was a very interesting summary of the disastrous Truss/Kwarteng regime. But it wasn't just the policies or comms that caused its rapid demise, but the extremist economic ideology that they tried to impose on the country. By not delving into that, and concentrating only on events, this summary is badly incomplete.
@MrDageo1 7 місяців тому
Yeah, no mention of Tuftin Street at all, the source of that ideology
@joshuachapman247 7 місяців тому
Thanks for doing this episode, appreciated.
@Greenpoloboy3 7 місяців тому
We thought things couldnt get any worse after her. How wrong we was.
@chrishalsall188 7 місяців тому
How can someone described as “not the most natural communicator” get anywhere near the top of politics? Surely that’s the most basic skill of someone who needs to earn votes and win the favour of fellow politicians. Blows my mind how a succession of not all that bright fools connive their way to the top.
@martavdz4972 6 місяців тому
Perhaps the Yes Minister episode "Party Games" might give a clue...?
@lucasjames7524 7 місяців тому
Excellent overview! As an American, it was very engaging and interesting!!
@RyanKeane9 7 місяців тому
As a Brit, it was vastly embarrassing. And excruciatingly funny!
@lesigh1749 7 місяців тому
@@RyanKeane9 You arent the best or brightest that we have to offer though.
@rabidbigdog 7 місяців тому
UK; shoots left foot with BREXIT, also UK shoots right foot - Lettuce.
@SunflowerPower22 7 місяців тому
Didn't king Charles call her "dear girl" when they first met when the Queen died. She was doomed from that moment, the optics were "silly girl" she lunged at him and looked terrified 😅, the clips of her as a young libral giving a speech about abolishing the Monarchy are hilarious worth checking out
@annphillips1086 7 місяців тому
I heard it reported as him saying "dear God"... mind you either works.
@SunflowerPower22 7 місяців тому
@@annphillips1086 🤣
@debbiemckeown7626 7 місяців тому
I knew she was going to be terrible and not last that long but didn’t think she would be gone by October. She refused to listen to so many people who told her the mini budget plans were a disaster.
@blehoo1 7 місяців тому
Brilliant episode. Incredible that our country - any democratic country for that matter - could possibly manage to install such a completely inept leader. The tragedy is that the seeds for the disaster were firmly sowed in another democratic experiment. The Brexit vote and subsequent hardline agreement has tied our hands so firmly that people like Truss and her cronies became a real option for the Conservative party because as far as they are concerned there is no other option for growth. The truth is that until we re-visit our whole relationship with Europe we have absolutely no prospect for a healthy economy and the UK will slowly grind to a halt..
@CrocPit 7 місяців тому
Loved every minute of this, fantastic content
@supergroups 7 місяців тому
In her entire working life thus far has she ever vacated a post leaving the company/departent in a better position than it was when she started? Does anyone have an example?
@MrDesmondPot 7 місяців тому
No. She’s a loser. But has somehow managed to make herself a fortune while losing.
@ChrisSmith-yh9bq 7 місяців тому
As Foreign Secretary she didn't know where Moldova was!
@davecrow2504 5 місяців тому
As foreign secretary she did nothing useful
@haydenharris3059 7 місяців тому
How could it go right when she had no relevant credentials.
@annh.8290 7 місяців тому
Very well done, thank you.
@danisehetland3576 7 місяців тому
Excellent job, James Heale!
@CorvoFG 6 місяців тому
It’s disgraceful that she’s not behind bars.
@greymouser8659 7 місяців тому
Bit like seeing an elephant at the top of a tree....You wondered how it got there, but you knew it wouldn't be there very long
@johnreed8336 7 місяців тому
That made me😂
@stewartellinson8846 7 місяців тому
Truss is a stark illustration of the fact that no amount of belief can defy economic gravity. It's a message that many on the right have failed to understand in the last few years and it means that no matter how much they may wish for a magical future of low taxes and "independence", we'll always be at the mercy of markets
@swoondrones 5 місяців тому
Timing. And obedience.
@andywilliams7323 7 місяців тому
She had the right ideas and policies. But she executed them with unbelievable incompetence. Trying to do sudden drastic change all at once is always a recipe for disaster. It freaks people out too much and p1s3s people off too much. You have to do change gradually so that it doesn't create a sudden shock or panic to the system. Announcing major tax cuts immediately after announcing a massive spending hike on energy policy, that followed previous major spending hikes by Boris for C19, was monumentally foolish. It's no surprise the financial markets freaked out and panicked.
@tangaz5819 7 місяців тому
I don’t miss her and kamikwazi. Some folk just don’t have the capacity for imposter syndrome.
@tomd5678 7 місяців тому
How could someone so obviously incompetent even become an MP
@seanmacmillan5562 7 місяців тому
Our political class has declined massively. Smart people get overlooked for more "appropriate" candidates.
@derekwarren1862 7 місяців тому
The pension she takes as a result should be removed! a pathetic excuse of a politician.
@willrobertsmith 7 місяців тому
What gets me is that practically everybody was saying she would be a disaster and yet they made her pm anyway. Utterly bizarre and clearly the moment the wheels finally fell off the Tory clown car .
@free-rangemotorcycling3677 7 місяців тому
49 days of chaos, and what is it we have had since, exactly?
@ericconnor8419 7 місяців тому
If Tory voters were capable of feeling shame or embarrassment they would feel terrible about a what they have dragged the country through. I lost my right to live and work in Europe, for what?
@DD-sr9xm 7 місяців тому
Hmm, how did The Times cover her premiership while she was there? Hindsight is 20-20 for these people. Where is your integrity?
@seebarry4068 7 місяців тому
Biographer? Pamphlet writer required at best.
@stuartjomes7289 7 місяців тому
Liz Truss still doesn’t acknowledge or except any liability for the damage she has done to thousand of home owners who are struggling to pay their mortgage’s...Her and team were absolutely out of their depth...Play ground politics .
@sonofsomerset1695 7 місяців тому
This was nothing to do with Truss, its the high infaltion due to the war in Ukraine and the dumb push to net zero, stop falling for media propaganda that it was all her fault, they blamed her because they wanted to get their globalist puppet Sunak in instead.
@johnreed8336 7 місяців тому
She has no shame and would when pressed blame it on somebody else !
@Hecatonicosachoron 7 місяців тому
shows once again how economically clueless and destructive the tories are
@peterebel7899 7 місяців тому
What about the pork market in Beijing? She is a real genius!
@michaelsandy3353 7 місяців тому
Every prime minister since Cameron has been an Oxford University graduate. Two of the five, Johnson and Truss have proved utterly incompetent, Cameron was barely capable and gave us the Brexit vote, and Theresa May, although honest and conscientious, didn’t have all the qualities for the job. Judgement remains to be see on Sunak , although the schools issue among others does taint him. The time has come to ask whether Oxford University, and particularly the PPE course, still remains a platform for producing decent ministers in government, or the laurels it rests on are rotting away.
@dreddguy6454 7 місяців тому
The elite fee paying schools bear some responsibility for the dire state of the nation.
@jimthorne304 24 дні тому
John Major didn't go to Oxford, or indeed any university, not that he was a spectacular success as PM either, however he was in office for longer than Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and probably Sunak too....
@michaelsandy3353 23 дні тому
@@jimthorne304 I said every prime minister since Cameron. John Major’s premiership came to an end 13 years before Cameron was appointed.
@marsupiomarsupi4421 7 місяців тому
Lettuce vs LizTruss: 1-0
@sophdog1678 7 місяців тому
She will become the answer the contestants can't remember on "Tenable", some years from now.
@martydav9475 7 місяців тому
If you remember, the Australian television commentators didn't know who she was when she arrived for the Queen's funeral.
@johnshaw566 7 місяців тому
If someone can LIE TO YOUR HUSBAND AND KIDS We DON'T HAVE A CHANCE....
@SL-sd3sg 7 місяців тому
How much did she make on hedge funds????
@tommiatkins3443 7 місяців тому
"At last! A true Tory budget"....Daily Mail the following days headlines
@andidevrede822 7 місяців тому
Everyone should try and remember the 49 days in office fact as I'm sure it will come up in a pub quiz some day.
@johannesnicolaas 3 місяці тому
I do miss the Lettuce images.... feeling nostalgic.
@seancurran6590 7 місяців тому
The real problem was how did someone so demonstrably incompetent ever become an MP never mind PM.
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