‘We’ve read it so you don’t have to’: Political experts tear Liz Truss’s book apart

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  • Опубліковано 15 кві 2024
  • Liz Truss’s new book ‘Ten Years to Save the West’ is scrutinised by political experts Matt Chorley, Harry Cole, Kirsty Buchanan and Mark Littlewood.
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  • @FromDesertTown
    @FromDesertTown Місяць тому +88

    "Ten Days to Wreck the Economy" is the only book Liz should be writing.

    • @philipd8868
      @philipd8868 Місяць тому +3

      Agreed

    • @MultiMenvafan
      @MultiMenvafan 29 днів тому

      Populist nutcases all confuse global markets with "the deep state"

    • @garyturner5739
      @garyturner5739 15 днів тому

      That would of been far more appropriate title for this ghastly book of her's.

    • @garyturner5739
      @garyturner5739 15 днів тому

      Mind you that would been telling the truth or confessing and Liz doesn't do that.

  • @franklinrwful
    @franklinrwful Місяць тому +94

    Never forget that the Tories put her in charge of running the country.

    • @bobvail1000
      @bobvail1000 29 днів тому +8

      You misspelled "ruining".

    • @mjc8281
      @mjc8281 29 днів тому +1

      I would point out that there is blame to go around here, "we" as a nation put the Tories in a position to make that call, yes she was an horrific PM and pretty dreadful human-being but the whole process of how she got there can't be ring-fenced around the Tories, although I could be incorrect they didn't change their leadership rules and in the UK we don't elect a PM.

    • @thegoat11111
      @thegoat11111 28 днів тому

      @@mjc8281 I didn't voty Tory I voted for Corbyn. So my conscience is clear.

    • @user-gi3xw5yc5u
      @user-gi3xw5yc5u 27 днів тому +1

      The membership not the MPs and the MPs did not like that.

    • @xanthias2001
      @xanthias2001 21 день тому

      @@thegoat11111The self-congratulatory note of certain comments on this thread (as elsewhere) is discouraging.
      Since we don’t have a Presidential electoral system, I didn’t “vote Corbyn”, I voted for the local candidate adopted by the Labour Party.
      Until such time as the Labour Party shifts its policies away from its current “centrist” position I will continue to vote for the Labour candidate endorsed by the national party.
      I realise that some on the Left would rather spoilt their ballot than compromise their beliefs.
      I don’t think that’s an effective way of changing the way we live in this country.
      Feel free to disagree…

  • @beeble2003
    @beeble2003 Місяць тому +210

    4:40 "And because she's a mathematician..."
    Er... No she's not. Her father was a mathematician. It's not hereditary.

    • @davidboskett5581
      @davidboskett5581 Місяць тому +11

      Thanks for the info -I wondered where that woman got that information from.I was just about to google her bio

    • @randyschwaggins
      @randyschwaggins Місяць тому +16

      😂😂😂😂😂...brilliant bs from a Truss crony

    • @tatooinefarmboy
      @tatooinefarmboy Місяць тому +1

      Intelligence generally is however

    • @jphenry3404
      @jphenry3404 Місяць тому +9

      @@tatooinefarmboy Plenty of examples that undermine that, my friend, not to mention both science and common sense.

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 Місяць тому +13

      @@tatooinefarmboy The claim was not that she is intelligent but specifically that she's a mathematician and therefore analyzes problems in a certain way.

  • @whitefoamsea8070
    @whitefoamsea8070 Місяць тому +75

    Liz Truss denies being a libertarian, she's on record saying she's never lent books to anyone.

    • @Jamietheroadrunner
      @Jamietheroadrunner Місяць тому +3

      👏🏼👏🏼😂😂😂

    • @annepoitrineau5650
      @annepoitrineau5650 15 днів тому

      Maybe she does not have any book. Got whatever she needed from the library.

    • @annepoitrineau5650
      @annepoitrineau5650 15 днів тому

      get it, libertarian/librarian. But she is so ignorant, I posted another comment regarding whether she does have books...

  • @albertbrammer9263
    @albertbrammer9263 Місяць тому +153

    She is an arrogant narcassist.

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk Місяць тому +17

      ... and a dangerous one.

    • @jeffdingle9677
      @jeffdingle9677 Місяць тому +1

      @@ftumschk...psychotic and deranged springs to mind also...

    • @Nutmegsyourman
      @Nutmegsyourman Місяць тому +2

      She's a scapegoat.

    • @StephanieTihanyi
      @StephanieTihanyi Місяць тому +13

      A scapegoat in her own narcissistic mind

    • @101Mant
      @101Mant Місяць тому +2

      In fairness that's not uncommon amongst senior politicians of all types.

  • @gerhardaigner5108
    @gerhardaigner5108 Місяць тому +255

    This woman was never up to the job. The broken political system allowed her to be appointed PM. She should have never got there.

    • @Dimera09
      @Dimera09 Місяць тому +9

      "The system" should frankly be based on more democratic principles or public popularity. No matter what you think of him, Boris had a 80 seat majority and was pushed out by sad tories despite his popularity. Liz Truss was the preferred candidate among the Tory members over Rishi. She too was pushed out by her party for Rishi and Jeremy Hunt. THAT is not good.

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому +3

      Awww, you're a bit frightened of change, there there.

    • @arctic_haze
      @arctic_haze Місяць тому

      Boris expelled everyone in the parliamentary party who had some shards of honour. This is why such political incompetents as Liz and Rishi could reach the top.

    • @Joekd6.1
      @Joekd6.1 Місяць тому +5

      @@Dimera09 there are two factions in the Tory party, the liberal faction and the rightwing faction

    • @dazzwsmith
      @dazzwsmith Місяць тому +2

      Delusional.

  • @mrpocock
    @mrpocock Місяць тому +195

    Is she calm in a crisis, or is she simply unaware that crises have bad implications?

    • @meganesergerie5382
      @meganesergerie5382 Місяць тому +14

      I opt for the latter

    • @patrikfloding7985
      @patrikfloding7985 Місяць тому +14

      Too thick to worry, perhaps?

    • @pimmspimms5462
      @pimmspimms5462 Місяць тому +9

      Psychopaths don’t feel anxiety. They, in fact, thrive in crisis and seek to cause it.

    • @JimIBobIJones
      @JimIBobIJones Місяць тому +8

      Truss and Kwateng came into politics with the idea they know better. They didn't bother learning how to govern or how to turn their ideas into policy during their time in parliament and as ministers, and when she was PM she acted as a bulldozer trying to force square pegs into circular holes.

    • @SamDurkSheff
      @SamDurkSheff Місяць тому +2

      This comment made me chuckle in an otherwise bleak day so thank you!

  • @thekidd7
    @thekidd7 Місяць тому +31

    'She's calm in a crisis' is the nicest way of saying, 'she's simply far too daft to see anything beyond the end of her nose', I've ever had.

  • @g.pmoore4293
    @g.pmoore4293 Місяць тому +55

    Calm in a crisis or just possibly too thick to grasp the situation .

    • @1pauljs
      @1pauljs Місяць тому

      💯. Definitely this rather than the other.

  • @annepoitrineau5650
    @annepoitrineau5650 Місяць тому +68

    "What are her strengths?". "Good in a crisis." lol. She created crisis after crisis.

    • @serebii666
      @serebii666 28 днів тому

      "Good in (creating) a crisis"

    • @garyturner5739
      @garyturner5739 15 днів тому

      Quite right she created am by her own actions of hubris.

  • @alaninsoflo
    @alaninsoflo Місяць тому +259

    Liz Truss is not and never has been, a mathematician.

    • @adblocker276
      @adblocker276 Місяць тому +17

      The 🥬 has better grasp of basic arithmetic than Truss could ever manage in her life time.

    • @Auriflamme
      @Auriflamme Місяць тому +14

      Agreed, she holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She'd need to hold at minimum an MA but more likely a doctorate in economics to even be considered an economist. Of course economists aren't exactly mathematicians, but they do need to understand and use mathematics in their work. As is, the best description I can think of for her is 'failed politician'.

    • @henrygingold6549
      @henrygingold6549 Місяць тому +7

      @@Auriflamme Mickey Mouse degrees.

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 Місяць тому +21

      Her father is a mathematician. Did you not get the memo where they made it hereditary?

    • @mityaboy4639
      @mityaboy4639 Місяць тому +12

      @@beeble2003apolgoies … its going to be hard conversation but then i have to tell my wife that she is an army officer (her father was) :))))
      is it only from father to daughter or do i have to look up what my father used to do? :))))))
      mathematician 🙄🤣

  • @TheHesseJames
    @TheHesseJames Місяць тому +133

    Dumb to the bones but with unlimited ambition. Always a dangerous mix.

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому +3

      Starmer perfectly exemplifies that statement. A dangerous mix indeed.

    • @simonkapadia7582
      @simonkapadia7582 Місяць тому +8

      @@S-North Starmer doesn't have unlimited ambition, he has extremely limited ambition. So little ambition it's unclear what he would even do with power at this point. And for all his many failings, he's as conventional as anyone could be, not deranged, so the comparison simply cannot begin to function.

    • @knightsnight5929
      @knightsnight5929 Місяць тому +10

      ​@@S-NorthNice try mate, he was the Attorney General, a very bright guy, orders of magnitude better than the lettuce.

    • @billpugh58
      @billpugh58 Місяць тому

      @@S-North Tory lovers are sounding desperate nowadays. Posting pointless sulky resentful school playgound insults in the hope of swaying us to vote for the incompetent grifting corrupt Tories again😂

    • @Will-hg6zs
      @Will-hg6zs Місяць тому +3

      ​@@S-North I'm struggling to see any basis of your statement, just another lazy "they're all as bad as each other" cop out

  • @damianleah6744
    @damianleah6744 Місяць тому +63

    It can be found in the fiction section, next to “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe “ 😂

    • @Boghopper1979
      @Boghopper1979 Місяць тому +1

      On Amazon right now it's number 1 ...... in Ideologies (literally!)

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому

      I guess you would know.

    • @jeffdingle9677
      @jeffdingle9677 Місяць тому +6

      At least "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" is more credible...

    • @Nutmegsyourman
      @Nutmegsyourman Місяць тому

      Thanks officer!

    • @jordoncampbell5118
      @jordoncampbell5118 Місяць тому +1

      OR the bargain bin.

  • @mrphgil974
    @mrphgil974 Місяць тому +93

    4:36 maybe she’s ‘calm in a crisis’ because she’s incapable of realising it’s a crisis?

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому +2

      Or perhaps a bold and genuine leader?

    • @gm9460
      @gm9460 Місяць тому +14

      @@S-Northno

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому +1

      @@gm9460 In this day and age, and in this new oppressive, post democratic climate, if you are 'being told not to read her book' then perhaps you really really should.
      I guess your answer will be,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,'no' no doubt.

    • @31Blaize
      @31Blaize Місяць тому +8

      @@S-North I've heard enough quotes from it by now to realise that it'll only be useful either in a bathroom or to start fires.

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому

      @@31Blaize No probs, maybe it really isn't for you. After all, ignorance is a kind of bliss, I guess. I can understand it, in this day and age of spin and obfuscation, it's ok to not want to know what's behind the curtain.

  • @brianferguson7840
    @brianferguson7840 Місяць тому +33

    The original manuscript is up for sale on eBay along with the actual crayons.🖍 🖍 🖍
    No bids yet and 2 days left.

  • @007JHS
    @007JHS Місяць тому +13

    Trussy is unflappable because she hasn't the faintest idea of what is going on and lives in blissful ignorance.

  • @michaels8638
    @michaels8638 Місяць тому +65

    she should have been doing 10yrs in prison for losing 67b in cash from the BoE propping up the bond market

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому +5

      Haha, it turns out that her economic growth plan was the correct plan after all.
      It was designed to avoid a recession.
      Instead we've 'somehow' ended up with Sunaks' low to no growth at all 'plan'. Though I'm guessing you're just fine with that.

    • @danielcrafter9349
      @danielcrafter9349 Місяць тому +5

      ​@@S-North- lol, ok... try again, yeah?

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому +2

      @@danielcrafter9349 Sunak is a failure, and will be remembered as such.

    • @williamevans9426
      @williamevans9426 Місяць тому +3

      But is wasn't poor Liz's fault at all. It was all the doing of that nasty Andrew Bailey and the awful OBR. We should all feel heartily sorry for Ms Truss!

    • @alastairwallace6153
      @alastairwallace6153 Місяць тому

      ​@@S-Northall the tory party are corrupt and a failure and will be remembered as such.

  • @patrikfloding7985
    @patrikfloding7985 Місяць тому +72

    Of course she’s calm in a crisis. She doesn’t give a fig about anyone affected.

    • @Will-hg6zs
      @Will-hg6zs Місяць тому +3

      If she's even aware, when there is a crisis

  • @dankeith1003
    @dankeith1003 Місяць тому +52

    I have heard LIz Truss or articles about her several times on Times Radio this week And still more on articles on UA-cam. Why ? Why are you giving her any attention at all ? Why are you publishing so many articles about her and her book on radio and UA-cam? Why don't you allow her to fade into the political oblivion to which she rightly deserves. I am so angry. By her actions she destroyed the value of my pension and thousands of others for which I will never forgive her.

    • @ML-ky1mp
      @ML-ky1mp Місяць тому +5

      True! Sadly, but it is good to make her a laughing stock, although what she did to the country especially after Brexit (and covid) is CRIMINAL! She should be doing community work forever, not in prison where she would be able to chose her own make up….

    • @bakedbean37
      @bakedbean37 Місяць тому +9

      "allow her to fade into the political oblivion"
      No.
      Remind and shame at every opportunity those responsible for inflicting her on us.
      Lest we and they forget.

    • @BJWT1047
      @BJWT1047 Місяць тому +4

      It’s better that the electorate are reminded of the horrors the Tory party have inflicted on our country.

    • @rolandskelcher3774
      @rolandskelcher3774 Місяць тому +4

      For all her badly managing her past position as former Prime Minister UK, causing great hardship, stress/mental health , emotional health , physical illness to the population. Only in her position for 49 days (shortest time being prime minister ), yet she received £115,000 PER ANNUM for life (for ministerial duties), a great meal ticket for life and a painful slap in the face for the population

    • @IssyMartin-mi3sg
      @IssyMartin-mi3sg 29 днів тому

      Cry about it

  • @richardtuxford1812
    @richardtuxford1812 Місяць тому +23

    Always question the motives of those who want to disband/disarm a regulator.

  • @hanswurst5493
    @hanswurst5493 Місяць тому +49

    why the title is not "How to crush a Economy in 45 Days" ?

    • @ptonpc
      @ptonpc Місяць тому +1

      Too many big words.

    • @Madonnalitta1
      @Madonnalitta1 Місяць тому

      Are you insane? Two years of lockdown crashed the economy.

    • @isabellewhite3505
      @isabellewhite3505 Місяць тому

      ❤❤❤❤

  • @patrikfloding7985
    @patrikfloding7985 Місяць тому +65

    Yeah, zero chance I’ll read it. I can’t even take 30 seconds of her talking.

    • @junehitchcock170
      @junehitchcock170 Місяць тому +4

      Very annoying speaking style. Couldn’t stand listening to the drone.

  • @chrispalmer7893
    @chrispalmer7893 Місяць тому +15

    Being so detached from reality that you fail to recognise crises when they happen is not a strength...

  • @billywoodward584
    @billywoodward584 Місяць тому +26

    If she's a mathematician, then I'm brain surgeon and a astrophysicist with all the qualifications nèeded. She was not calm she was brain dead, she was like Nero watching Rome burning.

    • @marcusott2973
      @marcusott2973 Місяць тому

      He was actually at his lake villa at the time of the fire, some 60 miles away. When he actually returned to Rome, he started directing efforts to clean up.
      Christian chroniclers gave Nero a lot of bad rap later. For obvious reasons.

    • @huntsman670
      @huntsman670 17 днів тому +1

      ​@@marcusott2973So Nero was a better leader than Liz Truss! No arguments on that from me...

  • @5magicfingers
    @5magicfingers Місяць тому +16

    Yet another case of a person involved in politics that has wrote more books than read. This is not a comedy or laughing matter, but a tragedy.

  • @tismeagen684
    @tismeagen684 Місяць тому +20

    Most of the country had two different words of advice for Liz Truss than those of the late Queen.

    • @tonyb9735
      @tonyb9735 Місяць тому +1

      Indeed, and the second one was "off".

  • @JM-qd2ky
    @JM-qd2ky Місяць тому +82

    This woman is in complete denial and off her rocker.

  • @jimschannel2220
    @jimschannel2220 Місяць тому +18

    The queen meant ‘Top yourself’.

    • @alisonwilson9749
      @alisonwilson9749 Місяць тому +2

      I suspect she probably thought that Truss was hopeless but if she could be persuaded to take a bit of time before doing things the penny might drop that she was wrong before too much damage was done.

  • @paulkristiansen3450
    @paulkristiansen3450 Місяць тому +16

    I thought the lettuce as gone hahahz

  • @railworker8058
    @railworker8058 Місяць тому +106

    She can’t just fade away in ignominy without trying to salve her ego.

    • @maralynmitchell8261
      @maralynmitchell8261 Місяць тому +3

      Sorry but everything I have heard lizz Truss say is Spot on .Why so many people don't have the Best interests of the Country at heart like she does, so i struggle to Understand. Them !

    • @railworker8058
      @railworker8058 Місяць тому

      So you think defence is more important than health?

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому +1

      @@maralynmitchell8261 Well said. I agree, she was correct in everything she put forward, even her economic growth plan was the correct plan after all, just as she said and predicted at the time the negative affects to the economy that she warned of, have now come into being.

    • @railworker8058
      @railworker8058 Місяць тому +3

      @@S-North Her stellar tenure in office might indicate otherwise.

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому +1

      @@railworker8058 Haha, you appear to have fallen into the trap. Ever wondered why the establishment ousted her in favour of an absolute vision-less 'yes man'? No, didn't think you had,,,

  • @mikemorris3421
    @mikemorris3421 Місяць тому +6

    You can of course exchange the words unflappable with indifference.

  • @traceywright8228
    @traceywright8228 Місяць тому +6

    If it was a book about her being prime minister. It will be a leaflet.

  • @andrewrice9362
    @andrewrice9362 Місяць тому +15

    So the political experts here are Harry Cole editor of the mail on sunday and former chairman of the Edinburgh University Consevative Association, Kirsty Buchanan special advisor to Liz Truss and former political editor of the Sunday Express and Matt Littlewood former chair of the libetarian think tank the IEA. Hardly a balanced group of experts but this is the Times

  • @user-po2qb6cm9q
    @user-po2qb6cm9q Місяць тому +69

    The Queen passes away and it's the focus of attention for the media. Liz the Lettuce is horrified that she's not top of the hit parade. Why me? Why now? Have you ever heard anything more self centred and conceited? 😳

    • @brigittescott2438
      @brigittescott2438 Місяць тому

      Yeah the guy she supports in America he favours the orange make up he wears. Rhymes with dump

    • @IntelligentArtefact
      @IntelligentArtefact Місяць тому

      Missus Kwin gave up the ghost after having to entertain that charlatan.

    • @korolev-musictodriveby6583
      @korolev-musictodriveby6583 Місяць тому +1

      Get brExit done...

    • @user-po2qb6cm9q
      @user-po2qb6cm9q Місяць тому +2

      @@korolev-musictodriveby6583 The Tories will be brexiting their seats in the Autumn. I reckon a minimum of 220

    • @korolev-musictodriveby6583
      @korolev-musictodriveby6583 Місяць тому

      @@user-po2qb6cm9q - Yes please !

  • @iancraig6070
    @iancraig6070 Місяць тому +16

    Didn't realise she moved on from crayons?

    • @jeffdingle9677
      @jeffdingle9677 Місяць тому +4

      She should have stayed with her building bricks...

  • @markshaw5903
    @markshaw5903 Місяць тому +129

    She's a "Mathematician".... HAHAHAHAHAHA....what a sad joke on the UK

    • @CubicSpline7713
      @CubicSpline7713 Місяць тому +12

      I dont know where Truss's colleague got 'mathematics' from.
      She studied philosophy, politics and economics. But she still cant add 2 + 2.

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk Місяць тому +2

      @@CubicSpline7713 No doubt her father gave her a solid grounding in maths, given that he's a professor of pure mathematics. (And he's a professor in the UK sense; not a lecturer or high-school teacher like most so-called "professors" are in the American system.)

    • @jeffdingle9677
      @jeffdingle9677 Місяць тому +10

      @@ftumschk Yes, but she's still NOT a mathematician. My late father had a degree in Chemical Engineering but I don't - and guess what, I don't call myself a Chemical Engineer....

    • @andrewrice9362
      @andrewrice9362 Місяць тому +4

      @@ftumschk Just because her father was mathematician that does not make her a good mathematician. Economics is not pure maths either its highly behavioural science. I seriosly doubt she has much comprehension of logic in analytics

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk Місяць тому

      @@andrewrice9362 Indeed, but she would have better placed than most to get some top quality home tuition in maths, that's all I'm really saying.

  • @aliceosborne3866
    @aliceosborne3866 14 днів тому +4

    45 days of work shouldn’t get you over 100 thousand a year for life from the tax payers!!!!!!!!!!

  • @simonclarke2939
    @simonclarke2939 Місяць тому +48

    Truss, calm in a crisis?
    If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, perhaps you haven't understood how serious the situation is!

    • @scottanderson2458
      @scottanderson2458 Місяць тому +1

      One of my favourite paraphrase/ misquotes 😅

    • @calmhorizons
      @calmhorizons Місяць тому

      She is the soldier standing up in the foxhole to see what that strange whistling noise is.

    • @scottanderson2458
      @scottanderson2458 Місяць тому

      @@calmhorizons 🤣

  • @piccalillipit9211
    @piccalillipit9211 Місяць тому +80

    *ITS NARINE SKINNER* doing the voice of liz - she is brilliant

    • @NBM397
      @NBM397 Місяць тому +4

      Looked it up. It IS "Nerine".

    • @JupiterThunder
      @JupiterThunder Місяць тому +1

      Jan Ravens is much better.

    • @sammy3212321
      @sammy3212321 Місяць тому +3

      Truly the one light that emerged from that shadowy era

    • @zapfanzapfan
      @zapfanzapfan Місяць тому +8

      "Because Liz was not available" 🙂

    • @IntelligentArtefact
      @IntelligentArtefact Місяць тому

      Fkn annoying smug voice.

  • @simonkapadia7582
    @simonkapadia7582 Місяць тому +8

    Keynes famously said of Hayek's book that it was, and I am paraphrasing here, an excellent example of how a brilliant logician beginning with an error could produce bedlam. Truss isn't a brilliant logician, but the rest is somewhat applicable. She is utterly self-assured in her detachment from reality, and that, for her, is about as good as logic.

  • @vladmykhnenko75
    @vladmykhnenko75 Місяць тому +26

    "Why me?! Why now?!" She's is comedy gold 🤡🤣

    • @williamevans9426
      @williamevans9426 Місяць тому +3

      Quite. No thought for the late Queen or the Royal Family, just panic about how the death would affect her. To call her narcissistic is an insult to narcissists.

  • @beardedclecker
    @beardedclecker Місяць тому +99

    She has absolutely no shame. Single handedly cost the hard working people of Britain £1000s with her little game of monopoly. She should have been prosecuted and jailed.

    • @nickdoughty518
      @nickdoughty518 Місяць тому +16

      And £30 Billion plus to support the pound and the bond market. So the Tories have wasted an astonishing £125 Billion since 2019 according to The Resolution Foundation. Check their list.

    • @Dimera09
      @Dimera09 Місяць тому +2

      "Jailed" is ridiculous.

    • @Rayblondie
      @Rayblondie Місяць тому

      I think she had the right idea personally. Look at the country now. The Tories are making a mess of it paying out social security to people who are able to work but won't. This is costing us billions. I am surprised at the Times, a paper I used to read, that they are stooping so low to a kind of cancel culture.

    • @user-wj7cv9hb5j
      @user-wj7cv9hb5j Місяць тому

      Nonsense

    • @danielcrafter9349
      @danielcrafter9349 Місяць тому +6

      ​@@Dimera09- but frankly, a good idea. Boris should be there, too. How they're allowed to damage everyone's lives and get away with it is the ridiculous part

  • @jimschannel2220
    @jimschannel2220 Місяць тому +18

    The lunatic who took over the asylum…for a short while.

    • @alfsmith4936
      @alfsmith4936 Місяць тому

      I think there were people in the party desperate for Johnson not to be the worst Prime Minister in history.

  • @adampowell5376
    @adampowell5376 Місяць тому +74

    There have been 300 years of Prime Ministers who have coped with the machinery of the state. Why is Truss complaining about it?

    • @NewkemG
      @NewkemG Місяць тому +5

      There is new machinery since Blair

    • @adampowell5376
      @adampowell5376 Місяць тому +4

      @@NewkemG That was machinery for the Government. As far as I know the machinery wasn't for Mr Blair's personal life.

    • @NewkemG
      @NewkemG Місяць тому

      @@adampowell5376 no it is unelected and therefore I democratic powerful decision and law making institutions that , as is usually the case , increased their remit over time and now obstruct the democratic , law making and economic planning processes . Look I’m not agreeing or disagreeing here but I think we can all agree that several wheels seems to be coming loose of late and it’s time for us to focus and take a good hard look at who and what is running our country and what is their agenda a future view .

    • @S-North
      @S-North Місяць тому +2

      The machinery is now turbo charged, and heading in the wrong direction at 100 miles per hour.

    • @kikidevine694
      @kikidevine694 Місяць тому +2

      Because she couldn't

  • @thetreeshaverabies
    @thetreeshaverabies Місяць тому +43

    Truss saw Brexit and said "Hold my beer."

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk Місяць тому +7

      More like "Hold my Château Pétrus", given her pretentiousness and expensive tastes.

    • @maximisatwat
      @maximisatwat Місяць тому

      Brexit was voted for by majority in a Democratic Referendum
      Pretty obvious what you are...

  • @DivinaDeCampoTV
    @DivinaDeCampoTV Місяць тому +5

    The debt is so huge because our wages are stagnant and we don’t tax the rich, the wealthy and the huge corporations properly. We lose over £35bn in tax evasion and avoidance and uncollected tax annually.
    Fund departments properly

    • @mikewallace1723
      @mikewallace1723 Місяць тому +1

      Ultimately does it matter about the debt. Doesn’t Japan have higher, but the country seems to work. Cutting debt with austerity is a political decision. Yep growth s the best way to reduce it, if that’s your priority ( to cut it). But does high earners tax cut (unfunded) actually grow the economy? Or do they save more and put more into pensions etc? Agree about tax avoidance etc

    • @DivinaDeCampoTV
      @DivinaDeCampoTV 29 днів тому

      @@mikewallace1723 the wealthy and rich invest into assets which makes them unattainable for those lower down. Driving up inequality which is why tax on the rich and more specifically wealthy is essential. Spread more of the money through legislation on CEO vs workers incomes and people lower down can spend more and grow all sectors of the economy not just falsely inflate asset prices.

  • @Tridhos
    @Tridhos Місяць тому +10

    I would rather read the Exchange & Mart.

  • @harrykout
    @harrykout Місяць тому +14

    We thank you for your sacrifice....

  • @russodoni5331
    @russodoni5331 Місяць тому +7

    Absurd to see Harry Cole trying to pretend that the death of the queen somehow impacted the economic effects of Truss's insane 'mini-budget' and regurgitating Truss's own stab-in-the-back mythology. The deranged budget was doomed to fail because it's incompetent ideology, the timing was largely irrelevant, while the 'Rishi started campaigning the day after he lost' nonsense is simply absurd; Truss destroyed the faith of her own party through a combination of appalling party management skills and an objectively insane policy direction.

    • @elgee6202
      @elgee6202 Місяць тому

      That isn't at all what he's saying. He's saying that he's surprised she went full throttle with such a disastrous budget so soon.

    • @alisonwilson9749
      @alisonwilson9749 Місяць тому +1

      @@elgee6202 He was saying it affected the mindset of the country. I for one think that's nonsense.

    • @AdamLloyd128
      @AdamLloyd128 29 днів тому +1

      ​​​​@@elgee6202 He was definitely being incredibly generous to her, at the very least. This is the same man who wrote a biography of her before she failed, being forced to pivot into marketing it as an Icarus tale because his book launched after she left office. He's also the political editor of The Sun, who are openly flirting with backing her narrative over Sunak. It doesn't take long to find a picture of the two of them cosying up at a ludicrously softball interview for her book, leading to a positive Sun splash which he wrote. So yeah, might want to take him with a bucket of salt

  • @mrpocock
    @mrpocock Місяць тому +19

    Perhaps the next GE will be kind to us all and she'll loose her seat.

    • @johnbriggs3916
      @johnbriggs3916 Місяць тому +5

      Lose. Word is that she will be defeated by a turnip.

  • @bradw8102
    @bradw8102 Місяць тому +20

    AI sounds more human than Truss does.

  • @ginopav7712
    @ginopav7712 Місяць тому +62

    No wonder she did not last long as PM. Who can Truss her.

    • @user-re7qj1bn2t
      @user-re7qj1bn2t Місяць тому

      😂😂😂😂😂 best comment so far

  • @brimcilroy9002
    @brimcilroy9002 Місяць тому +6

    The audacity of truss is breathtaking after her attempt at pm, she's still trying to make as much cash as she can from her carcrash 6wks at 5he helm but no doubt there will be idiots who buy her book.

  • @michaelmullins3396
    @michaelmullins3396 Місяць тому +40

    Has truss the intellectual capacity to write a book.

    • @Boghopper1979
      @Boghopper1979 Місяць тому +7

      Well, in theory fridge magnets can do it so I'd give Truss a 1 in 5 chance

    • @user-hr4oy9xu2w
      @user-hr4oy9xu2w Місяць тому +4

      No.

    • @ptonpc
      @ptonpc Місяць тому +1

      Well, she did eat a lot of crayons.....

    • @StephanieTihanyi
      @StephanieTihanyi Місяць тому

      😂

    • @sbor2020
      @sbor2020 Місяць тому

      Well if according to the infinite monkey theorem that given time a chimpanzee can type the complete works of Shakespeare, then surely ...

  • @jstoner9029
    @jstoner9029 Місяць тому +7

    Bozos talking about a bozo?

  • @jimbob-robob
    @jimbob-robob Місяць тому +25

    My god, what Tory apologism for her appalling free market ideas and proposed attack on welfare, as if thousands of foodbanks etc aren't enough already...
    This did not tear her book apart at all!

    • @jeffdingle9677
      @jeffdingle9677 Місяць тому +6

      Instead of re-pulping the thousands of her unsold books, why not donate them to food banks for burning in log-burners....

    • @DomBrownyo
      @DomBrownyo Місяць тому

      But which American and nasty people advised her for this pro 1% anti 99% B.S. ???

    • @user-cl5yt8yt5d
      @user-cl5yt8yt5d Місяць тому

      I'm sure you missed the part about her cutting taxes on low earners but the boe didn't like that did it

    • @jimbob-robob
      @jimbob-robob Місяць тому +2

      @@user-cl5yt8yt5d low earners don't pay much tax because of the starting thresholds. It would just be more benefit to higher income earners as is usual for Tories...

    • @user-cl5yt8yt5d
      @user-cl5yt8yt5d Місяць тому

      That's not true low earners do pay more tax now due to income threshold freeze. Liz truss wanted to reduce the threshold tax percentage from 20% to 19%. At least do your research before replying​@@jimbob-robob

  • @senorf999
    @senorf999 Місяць тому +8

    What would the Tory client media be saying if what would have happened under Truss short tenure was Rayner instead?

    • @jeffdingle9677
      @jeffdingle9677 Місяць тому +3

      To Tories it would be the end of Life, the Universe and Everything....

  • @rollyunicorn
    @rollyunicorn Місяць тому +4

    Says the woman who never did a hard days work in her entire life.

  • @hamishrobertson946
    @hamishrobertson946 Місяць тому +28

    Mark littlewood, former director of IEA and one of Liz Truss's biggest backers...

    • @mattpotter8725
      @mattpotter8725 Місяць тому +5

      Yeh, I thought it very odd and not very impartial having him on to comment on what went on as well, but then this is Times Radio were talking about here.

  • @VincentPeters-vs2us
    @VincentPeters-vs2us Місяць тому +4

    Sherlock Holmes Discovers Lizz Truss' competence vault! Yeah, it is total fiction.

  • @VinceLammas
    @VinceLammas Місяць тому +5

    Littlewood doesnt seems to understand that the markets have formed a positive opinion of the UK's ability to fund its plans for borrowing (for whatever purpose the government determines are required). Their positive opinion is based on assessments of economic fundamentals plus the facts the UK has its own currency and it's government can responsibly raise funds through taxation.
    When the Conservative Party acted irresponsibly, the markets expressed their concern (as we expected).

    • @alisonwilson9749
      @alisonwilson9749 Місяць тому +1

      I'd have thought anyone with Economics at A level would have been able to work that out, too. Indeed, anyone who has ever had to take out a loan should have expected it to happen. Lenders want to see you can afford to borrow. She was doing the equivalent of saying she desperately needed to borrow money to buy a car but telling the lender that, oh, by the way, she was going to spend 95% of her income for the next year on a new frocks, a racehorse, and going on holiday to Bermuda for six weeks.

  • @Mike-br8zt
    @Mike-br8zt Місяць тому +3

    I've watched the Times Radio so my friends don't have to: Non-London normal people tear Times Radio luv in apart.

  • @user-js3rg9sj1k
    @user-js3rg9sj1k Місяць тому +3

    I would not give her a job in poundland.

  • @TankEnMate
    @TankEnMate Місяць тому +3

    Mark Littlewood's claim that "unfunded government spending is bad so why the complaint about unfunded tax cuts" is an over simplification; two points which he elides, unfunded government spending isn't always inflationary (it depends a great deal on what is bought with that borrowing) whereas unfunded tax cuts are so close to being entirely inflationary as to be the same, and secondly in a similar vein unfunded government spending can in fact be "funded" if it is used to acquire goods or services that increase productivity, for example infrastructure like roads (if they are genuinely needed), or generate an ongoing income stream for the government (in other words pay for themselves).

  • @trickydicky90
    @trickydicky90 Місяць тому +3

    Didn't know she had a book, hope it's nice and thick, might come in handy when out of loo roll.

  • @terrynpiper7667
    @terrynpiper7667 Місяць тому +2

    Based on your reputation and headline I will buy her book.😊

  • @elizabethcasey7709
    @elizabethcasey7709 Місяць тому +2

    I will read it for myself, thank you.

    • @IntelligentArtefact
      @IntelligentArtefact Місяць тому +1

      May I recommend the smallest room in the house....for recycling purposes.

  • @dannymurphy1779
    @dannymurphy1779 Місяць тому +10

    The irony is that Liz Truss was brought down by the free markets, who were not atall keen on lending the UK the £50-70BN that was needed to fund the gap between tax and spending.

  • @tonycollyweston6182
    @tonycollyweston6182 Місяць тому +3

    Five year olds defending a five year old, how pathetic.

  • @lesmarsden2058
    @lesmarsden2058 Місяць тому +2

    I read an interview with Liz Truss in which her dad was referred to as ‘a lecturer in mathematics’. He was actually a Professor of Pure Mathematics at Leeds University. I wonder why it was necessary to downplay his status?

    • @andymcdonald8922
      @andymcdonald8922 Місяць тому

      Obviously a left-wing, deep state conspiracy

  • @joemander7580
    @joemander7580 Місяць тому +2

    She is absolutely mad.

  • @tommiatkins3443
    @tommiatkins3443 Місяць тому +4

    So nice to hear liv struss....as voiced by the incredible talented Narine Skinner. Watch her videos and you'll be richer than Truss

  • @S-North
    @S-North Місяць тому +3

    In this day and age, and in this political climate, if you are being 'told not to read it', then perhaps you really really should.

  • @kevinbyrne5265
    @kevinbyrne5265 Місяць тому +2

    Making an argument for Truss is akin to making an argument for a tsunami. I honestly don't know where do we get these people like Truss and the majority of Tories, its beyond reason. Put quite simply, she's mad.

  • @WHEATLEY007
    @WHEATLEY007 Місяць тому +2

    Never trust anyone who says ' I've read it so you don't need to '. Always read or hear people's own words, not what some opinionated persons opinion of someone else

  • @jackpayne4658
    @jackpayne4658 Місяць тому +9

    Did she mention pulling out of the Eurovision Song Contest? That's the key to releasing Global Britain's hidden potential.

  • @louiscryblood.1494
    @louiscryblood.1494 Місяць тому +6

    The fall of empire of the British is a sorry affair to witness. When you raise children to believe that they are capable of everything is a detriment to society. 😅😅😅

    • @lsmith9249
      @lsmith9249 Місяць тому

      do learn some history, The British Empire ended over 70 years ago

  • @Thedarkknight2244
    @Thedarkknight2244 Місяць тому +2

    20:18 the woman who think truss is a mathematician. She needs to justify this statement. When has the obr been wrong. Well actaully, how has it constrained change from happening

  • @pete3122
    @pete3122 29 днів тому +1

    Never forget the AFRICAN chancellor laughing at the queens funeral.

  • @paulkristiansen3450
    @paulkristiansen3450 Місяць тому +3

    Oh Truss " of I'll use a nuclear weapon" if necessary she flippantly replied to a question ( against Russia of course) forgetting that the UK will disappear then

    • @jeffdingle9677
      @jeffdingle9677 Місяць тому +1

      No - she meant the Labour Party or for that matter anyone who disagreed with her....

  • @chriswhite1417
    @chriswhite1417 Місяць тому +3

    Mark Littlewood? Of the IEA?? The people to whom Truss outsourced her brain. The architects of Truss' nonsense. You can hear how he advised her. The IEA (who still refuses to say who funds them) must take responsibility.

    • @andymcdonald8922
      @andymcdonald8922 Місяць тому

      Is that who it is? Saved me a google as he seems as economically illiterate as truss herself

  • @rodmarker2071
    @rodmarker2071 Місяць тому +1

    A classic example of the "Dunning Kruger effect ", a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.

  • @alanforrester6900
    @alanforrester6900 Місяць тому +1

    Are we going to listen to these experts who are responsible for the mess we are in and carry on scapegoating truss

  • @militarymodellerpaul5932
    @militarymodellerpaul5932 Місяць тому +3

    You’ve read it, and she was targeted and still is.

  • @steveholmes11
    @steveholmes11 Місяць тому +2

    Liz Truss was Maybot II with libertarian sprinkles.

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc Місяць тому +2

    Sounds like at one point she might even have been vaguely sane. Possibly when the planets were in alignment..

  • @stephenrobinson3681
    @stephenrobinson3681 Місяць тому +2

    What's the point in political discussion if all contributors come from the same conservative mindset, lesson one on how to skewed a conversation.

  • @MixedUpSignals
    @MixedUpSignals Місяць тому +9

    I suppose Truss will be buying knee pads for any future employment.

    • @maralynmitchell8261
      @maralynmitchell8261 Місяць тому

      While most of you will be sloshing around in your oversized Boots . Not being able to see the woods for the Trees !

    • @MixedUpSignals
      @MixedUpSignals Місяць тому +1

      @@maralynmitchell8261 ?

    • @StephanieTihanyi
      @StephanieTihanyi Місяць тому

      Don't insult domestic cleaners, they are more intelligent than Truss who has never done a real days work in her life.

    • @MixedUpSignals
      @MixedUpSignals Місяць тому

      @@StephanieTihanyi Domestic cleaning wasn't the service I was thinking of her providing.

  • @user-qi1sh4dz1v
    @user-qi1sh4dz1v Місяць тому +3

    If times, radio says we don't have to buy it or read it, I think I'll just buy it and read it

  • @joshstein4708
    @joshstein4708 Місяць тому +2

    "Why aren't people worried about trillions in unfunded government spending?"
    Because government spending against borrowing provides direct value to tax payers which results in (among other things) long term reduction in government costs in other areas including education, public health, and infrastructure. Tax cuts against borrowing provide short term growth in the finance sector of the economy with high levels of volatility that often accelerate the popping of market bubbles and result in economic blowback. The central defense of Truss seems to be "she's strong in her convictions," but strength in ones convictions is only a good thing if they're well founded; her "strength in convictions" is just her being incredibly thick.

  • @jmcm8546
    @jmcm8546 Місяць тому +1

    That Kirsty Buchanan, (although an advisor to Truss), seems to have a bit of common sense.

  • @JohnGrayOnline
    @JohnGrayOnline Місяць тому +4

    Times Radio can't stop itself being snotty metropolitan and woke.

  • @mesolithicman164
    @mesolithicman164 Місяць тому +4

    So how has the guy that replaced her fared? Terribly.
    It's all very well piling in on Truss, but her analysis *was* correct. We can only get out of this current mess with growth, not taxation. Alert.
    We don't make anything anymore, our armed forces are at their lowest point ever, half the country is unfit for work, tge NHS is overloaded.
    How is all _that_ down to Truss? In the final analysis, her approach was too forced, too rapid, but if you can't see how bad a state this country is in you must have your head buried in the sand.
    As bad as she was, credit Truss for seeing the scale of our problems and _at least_ trying to do something about them.

    • @TesterAnimal1
      @TesterAnimal1 Місяць тому

      She was just a more carême version of the policies that GOT US HERE.

  • @wackadakka3134
    @wackadakka3134 29 днів тому +1

    the establishment close ranks ............ dont worry WE WILL read her book , you dont get to tell us what to do

  • @jamesmccaul2945
    @jamesmccaul2945 Місяць тому +1

    Presenter employed by Rupert Murdoch and Tory advisor to former prime minister both paint themselves as outsiders fighting the political establishment? How brave they must be and what sacrifices they must have made to…. Oh.

  • @railworker8058
    @railworker8058 Місяць тому +11

    I have a Liz in my Truss and it chafes.

    • @jeffdingle9677
      @jeffdingle9677 Місяць тому +2

      as well as the insane laughter it emits...

  • @shaungreenhalgh832
    @shaungreenhalgh832 Місяць тому +4

    Boris never had a problem with his hair and makeup.

  • @dannyjonze
    @dannyjonze Місяць тому +2

    who are these little gremlins?

  • @paulineinnes5319
    @paulineinnes5319 Місяць тому +1

    Every time they go after someone ,the more truth you see.

  • @Madonnalitta1
    @Madonnalitta1 Місяць тому +3

    Anyone that tells you that you shouldn't read something, is hiding something.
    Read it for yourself, make your own mind up - if you have one.