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A year after Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership and disastrous mini-budget, her inner circle believe their time will come again.
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Britain’s six-week experiment in “Truss-onomics” was an unmitigated disaster. The package of £45bn worth of unfunded tax cuts announced in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget on 23 September caused panic and pushed the UK’s borrowing costs above those of Italy and Greece.
Our associate politics editor, Rachel Cunliffe, speaks to our business editor, Will Dunn, about why Liz Truss’s ideology could return to the forefront of Conservative politics.
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@grateberk6435 11 ай бұрын

Completely and utterly ridiculous. The woman is useless and has inflicted enormous damage

@WhichDoctor1 11 ай бұрын

There are still lots of rich people who want to pay substantially less tax than they already do. and are quite happy to keep funding the thinktanks and newspapers who invent economic propaganda to try to justify why that’s not a terrible idea. So of course these ideas won’t be going anywhere

@user-sd3ik9rt6d 11 ай бұрын

And the moment they have their hands on the controls they crash the clown car.

@TopazDr 11 ай бұрын

I mean, taxes for earners between 70k and 200k needs to lower, they're way too high for anyone earning and living in the south east.

@fang_xianfu 11 ай бұрын

I'm on a pretty high income as these things go, and it's really easy to forget in these times of high inflation and increases in cost of living, how small my struggles are compared to other people. So it's really easy to say "I need tax cuts too!" but if the pain is going to fall on someone, its just that it falls more on me. Plus, and I say this as someone who holds a fairly substantial portfolio, the way capital gains tax allows the uber-wealthy to pay hardly anything is disgusting. The rates for that should be reviewed.

@moore_news 11 ай бұрын

Yup, that trickle down theory just won't go away

@andrewwalsh2755 11 ай бұрын

... which is why, although MMT can work in theory...it won't work in practice... People like govts that create money (national debt) for tax cuts and cheap loans... they don't like paying the Magic Money back in taxes, to balance the books...

@andrewlucas744 11 ай бұрын

"They believe in a small state, apart from things like the police". So basically making as much cash as they can whilst keeping the rest of us in line.

@lilacbookshelf1909 11 ай бұрын

Probably the dumbest libertarian hypocrisy.”I don’t trust the state to collect my bins but I do trust them with a complete monopoly of violence!”

@MattBooth 11 ай бұрын

Liz Truss in the papers moaning about how the Conservatives haven't done enough to fix the economy... As though it wasn't HER that trashed it.

@Gringos007 11 ай бұрын

classic politician doublespeak...

@pault1289 11 ай бұрын

And more importantly, that she's been a minister for over 10 years! She's been at the highest levels of a Conservative Government. So if she couldn't get a grip on how managing the Civil Service and the Treasury works (she was Chief Secretary to the Treasury for over two years) after that, I doubt she never will. Sales just trying to airbrush history to look more kindly on her. About the only things she didn't blame were the Church, God and the Devil - expect at least one of those to get added in next time she spins this yarn.

@brubeker12 11 ай бұрын

No wonder the country is in a mess blame those who put her there just as awful. Worst shower of politicians i have ever seen

@22448824 11 ай бұрын

She was thrown out of the job but still the economy is dire

@MattBooth 11 ай бұрын

@@22448824 yes, she and Kwazi did some serious damage.

@Calvin23 11 ай бұрын

Liz Truss is hilarious and pure comedy gold. I never laughed so much for those 45 days. It’s just a shame that it’s costing us all very dearly.

@andrewwalsh2755 11 ай бұрын

... just wait until Rachel Reeves has a go... 😱

@kayedal-haddad 11 ай бұрын

… and then it wasn’t funny!

@laurencefox5884 11 ай бұрын

@@andrewwalsh2755 Silly PR bot. Get a real job.

@henben9215 11 ай бұрын

@@laurencefox5884Jeremy corbyn is still trying to take his bins out the nursing home

@pip1723 11 ай бұрын

Tufton street running the country ....

@maxharbig1167 11 ай бұрын

If her comeback actually happens it'll be even more miracolous than that of Lazarus.

@geoff9759 11 ай бұрын

Let it happen - the conservatives will be unelectable for a generation regardless of the media BS

@Minime163 10 ай бұрын

Well the world needs a miracle with global warming liz getting into the top job would shurly be a sign from God that he's very cross with this world and were in the last chance saloon.

@echobay5040 11 ай бұрын

A comeback? What to? She can’t even read from a carefully prepared script convincingly. The woman is totally insane.

@kabl00muk94 11 ай бұрын

The fact that there's even the consideration of her making ANY return to government would be funny if she hadn't tried to push the UK back in to the dark ages... She'll explode when hit by direct sunlight anyway, should happen any day now hopefully 🙏🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻

@fang_xianfu 11 ай бұрын

The whole point of this podcast was that she doesn't need to make a comeback herself for her ideas to stay alive in the conservative party. The people who thought like her are still there and taking their small victories where they can.

@kabl00muk94 11 ай бұрын

@fang_xianfu I understand that, but this podcast doesn't seem to state the fact that kwarteng was instrumental in this little mess. (I am, of course, referring to his banker friends who made a killing off of the devaluation of the pound... the friends he was seen boasting to at a garden party pre budget announcement) I get claiming the basis of these ideas are sound, but suggesting in any way that the Conservative intention in using them was for the good of the UK people or the economy is a complete farse. Its pretty much set in stone at this point, this current iteration of the Conservative party are nothing more than career criminals who, despite being employed to serve the people, have basically just raided our government funds and let the country fall apart... So it can't come as a surprise that any ideas put forward by them are automatically distrusted by the public on arrival, especially when said idea wiped 350 billion off the UK's books when implemented previously by this doughnut of a woman...

@DJWESG1 11 ай бұрын

@@fang_xianfu the problem always was conservstive extremism. Since forever.

@JerzyFeliksKlein 11 ай бұрын

Not the dark ages, the Victorian era

@MarkInOxford 11 ай бұрын

I’m surprised she hasn’t blamed the queen for her ineptitude yet.

@mikemalone1282 11 ай бұрын

That’s not as crazy as it sounds when we see what the Royals cost us

@ch0293 11 ай бұрын

Man its such coincidence she died just after meeting her, probably the queen was so incredulous knowing the transition was so bad that she kicked the boots with all that chaos going on then

@tt-ew7rx 11 ай бұрын

Even Truss would not have done something like that surely, having proposed to have the monarch's portrait in every classroom...

@coronaviruskillerforthegoo3353 11 ай бұрын

she did and king charles got mad.

@BuIIetBiII 11 ай бұрын

I have to say it was great to hear that analysis from Rachel Cunliffe. Very intelligent, articulate and a great explanation of the motivation behind Truss

@ColinBarrett001 11 ай бұрын

There's a motivation? An agenda? Not just blind arrogance and stupidity?

@jonathanash4280 11 ай бұрын

An intelligent and articulate explanation indeed, but very little about the boom-and-bust 2008 crash, austerity and righ-wing extremism that the free-marketeers brought us I thought.

@gavp5928 11 ай бұрын

😂

@Minime163 10 ай бұрын

Liz has already proven she's incapable of motivation if her returning as primminister has any motive behind it it's because there's someone in the background and litterly winding her up and pointing her in the direction they want her to go (go on liz your the only one who can truly finish brit I mean Brexit). Maggie Tatcher must be cringing to think liz is trying to model herself on her.

@blunderbusssi9587 11 ай бұрын

'Voices in the Conservative party'? We need to be more worried about the voices in Liz Truss' head...

@Lynnpjjbdndji 11 ай бұрын

Truss cost the country all most a Billion pound a day in her 45 Days .... we can't afford Her lmao

@Monklane79 11 ай бұрын

Please God, no.

@MattBooth 11 ай бұрын

None of the IEA policies are based in reality. There is no benefit to cutting tax for the rich whilst the poor are still under huge strain.

@andrewwalsh2755 11 ай бұрын

in a TV prog, someone suggested foreign owners of UK property pay extra taxes... and Emily Carver of IEA nearly fell over herself to object... I think that gave a clue who IEA are batting for... who most think tanks are batting for...

@MattBooth 11 ай бұрын

@@andrewwalsh2755 is Kate Andrews on the same tank? Probably the same Tufton Street address. Her face sets me off and then she starts talking 😡

@jaycee6996 11 ай бұрын

It is a fantasy to think that the Tories would have spent the benefits of increased growth on improving anything but the finances of themselves, their donors and cronies. We would have been in exactly the same position because they would have followed the same ideological policies but with bigger bribes and larger amounts of taxpayers money given to their cronies.

@DJWESG1 11 ай бұрын

The only people who don't know this fact are the police.

@PassiveAgressive319 11 ай бұрын

She’s friggin unbelievable. On no way should she be allowed to return to public life

@Bertrum123 11 ай бұрын

She will probably be out at the next election .the rich may have made her pm but the peoples vote decide if she will be an mp you can fool some but not all. 4:49

@user-yp7rn6tb2t 11 ай бұрын

Nigh on Psychopathic politics

@lyxnick 11 ай бұрын

She can launch a comeback all she wants... the Tories (hopefully) won't be in power for a very long time after the next GE.

@eightiesmusic1984 11 ай бұрын

The red Tories will ensure neoliberalism is safe in their hands. No redistribution of wealth under Starmer.

@SigmundJaehn 11 ай бұрын

If she launches a comeback then it will guarantee that the cons will stay in opposition.

@midlandgeordie 11 ай бұрын

🤞🤞🤞🤞

@georgeryan3310 11 ай бұрын

I am over 70 years of age most of which has been spent under a Tory party government and in relative terms the rich have got richer and the worker has stood still or got poorer,market forces have never been good for anybody other than the established few,market forces haven't given us cleaner water systems or cheaper energy or better transport systems and the more of our health system that gets dished out to private companies the worse it gets,market forces have lead to 1%of the worlds population owning over 50%of it's wealth,that can not possibly be good for anybody other than the establishment.

@alicetruelovecrossdresser9670 11 ай бұрын

Even Lizzy Truss still has many supporters after the huge mess she’ve done? This is why the UK nowadays is doomed

@o_s_byron2319 11 ай бұрын

Good ideas, terrible execution. Who doesn't want lower taxes?

@gerardmackay8909 11 ай бұрын

@@o_s_byron2319 I don’t but I do want tax avoiders dealt with rigorously

@o_s_byron2319 8 ай бұрын

@@FarazHameed-fx3on the money you give to the government isn't used for anything meaningful anyway the least they could do is give it back...... And as someone who comes from a 3rd world country, the uk's infrastructure is actually top tier.

@suechapman5822 11 ай бұрын

The delusion is total.

@billybobkingston5604 11 ай бұрын

She has support, oh my god

@treyquattro 11 ай бұрын

right, if you cut taxes on the middle class in the UK then they have more money that will be taken in rent increases, and even private healthcare costs (hello, American-style "healthcare"!). Truss was right that the UK needs to (significantly) increase growth to improve the debt-to-GDP ratio (unless fiscal or monetary solutions are preferred), but her "ideas" of simply doing more of the same - increase wealth inequality in the finance sector and asset markets in an otherwise rentier-based cononomy - were total non-starters and amounted to complete, unabridged idiocy. Economic illiteracy at the very least.

@shogun2215 10 ай бұрын

'Growth' doesn't help those who are living in poverty. It doesn't help those who desperately need access to more money, but it certainly DOES help those who are already obscenely rich.

@treyquattro 10 ай бұрын

@@shogun2215 it does if you have a responsible government that believes in running the country for all the people, not just the ultra-rich.

@annishilcock4587 11 ай бұрын

It does not benefit everyone as proven by Thatcher's Trickle Down Economics which didn't work, other than for the bankers and the shareholders. And if companies are paying less tax how are you going to A pay off the debt. B fund the police, education, and the NHS and C our privatised industries have proven to be uneconomical and disfunctional. Plus trade barriers with the EU make the UK disadvantageous for industrial investment, hence Mr Brexit Dyson moving his operation to Singapore

@EuropeanQoheleth 11 ай бұрын

Insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting a different result.

@user-sd3ik9rt6d 11 ай бұрын

Dont vote tory, please, whatever you do, dont be an enabler

@johnmoore9862 11 ай бұрын

That’s what it comes down to ultimately 👍.

@leighvaughton2740 11 ай бұрын

It must be hard for the average tory to realise that even the markets don't want tory dream policies. Their only way forward now is to double down on the stupidity.

@ianworley8169 11 ай бұрын

Truss thinking she can in some way re-invent herself and make any kind of comeback is the definition of the infinite power of self delusion.

@nicennice 11 ай бұрын

So after 13 years and 4 elections, why do the British people think that they didn't vote for this? She represents the modern Conservative values that have been held front and centre for all to see for a long time. Britain needs to take a long hard look at itself because just like Truss it's in denial about what it actually is or has become.

@ernestthesmallholder559 11 ай бұрын

That is why the interests of Wales (and Scotland) will always be independence within the EEA and European Union. The UK is becoming a failed state, it is too centralised, power & wealth is controlled by a small oligarch. The Scottish and Welsh governments should be planning for their countries to be independent and preparing new institutions such as a National bank, currency, foreign policies, home, passport control, law and policing, etc for when the UK finally collapses.

@michaeladkins6 11 ай бұрын

Only a few hundred tory members actually voted for her. Any real reform could start there.

@RR-sp3ey 11 ай бұрын

To be fair Scotland didn't vote for them yet we are stuck with them.

@chriswatson3464 10 ай бұрын

Most people don't vote tory, but tories get most of the seats. It's not fair.

@gavinsmith9564 11 ай бұрын

Can we not pay them to stay away ?, will be far cheaper for us in the long run.

@ch0293 11 ай бұрын

Ha😂 hopefully won't be needed to kill them all

@izzytrue8630 11 ай бұрын

Yes, that really happened...because this is the UK!!!

@coppershark1973 11 ай бұрын

The more Truss flaps her lips the more the Tories election chances vanish. Keep it up Mary.

@andrewwalsh2755 11 ай бұрын

On the other hand... ...with the Conservatives actually trying to replace Sunak with Truss... ... and the lying, deceitful, dishonest Starmer leading Zionist Labour... ... it's the best opportunity the Green Party!🇬🇧... will ever get...

@Gavin48 11 ай бұрын

Don't call her Mary 😡

@kiljaeden7663 11 ай бұрын

@@Gavin48it is her name though.

@Gavin48 11 ай бұрын

@kiljaeden7663 She doesn't like her birth name. So she changed it. If you can respect pronouns, you should be able to respect Lizs right to change her name.

@kiljaeden7663 11 ай бұрын

@@Gavin48 she hasn't changed her name. Her name is Mary Elizabeth Truss.

@Jasta2112 11 ай бұрын

I mean is she going for round 2 with a lettuce or has she gone down a weight class and now challenging a tomato?

@fang_xianfu 11 ай бұрын

Arguing using the Laffer curve is pretty stupid - although estimates vary widely, the rough average of the estimate is that a tax rate around 70% would maximise revenue.

@davidberrell4725 11 ай бұрын

Fun?? It was/ is terrifying!

@bthjf12003 11 ай бұрын

Looney Truss in cuckoo land

@tanyachou4474 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, let’s nail the coffin shut for Britain… are they insane?

@scottishbombolini7794 11 ай бұрын

"Shame, Ding Ding Ding, Shame" should follow Truss anytime she crosses her front door.

@Uneducatedopinion57 11 ай бұрын

Her incompetentence was criminal, is driving like a maniac not a crime, how is this any different

@edmundprice5276 11 ай бұрын

I hope she wins so that she can bungle it again

@philipberthiaume2314 11 ай бұрын

Truss = Fantastic quantitative easing to save pensions. A near par value of the pound and USD. Gross misunderstanding of basic economic knowledge by espousing growth in an inflationary period at the same time the BoE is trying to control inflation is akin to throwing fuel on a fire that the fire department is trying to put out. It was the height of incompetence.

@andrewwalsh2755 11 ай бұрын

... and then there was Zionist Labour... 😱 Invest in tent and bucket manufacturers and importers... it's going to be huge... street sewers are making a comeback...

@smoozerish 11 ай бұрын

watching all this from Ireland with bag of popcorn in hand

@ashleywilson8306 11 ай бұрын

Nothing says out of touch like trying to manufacture a come back for Lizz Truss. Fortunately I can’t imagine she has many supporters. Honestly how could the tories make themselves any less electable.

@davidhowells5374 11 ай бұрын

The woman is delusional. No sense of reflection on the damage she caused

@garethbater6900 11 ай бұрын

Shameless - should never be allowed back into government -

@PostingCringeOnMain 11 ай бұрын

You know, just for once I'd love for a Tory to give the other half of Hayeks economic platform and see how that goes down with their base. Sure, they love the free market solution and deregulation and then go silent before they get to the bit where Hayek believed very deeply in rooting out "unearned income" from the economy eg; specifically landlords, which he thought were a cancer on growth AND the fact he recognised the impending job losses through automation and so his economic platform also demanded "negative income tax" for the lowest earners eg; a form of universal basic income. If they actually presented the entire suite of measures as proposed by Hayek you'd see the gammon lose their flipping minds because stimulating his "growth agenda" was underpinned by ending landlords and implementing UBI... which of course wouldn't go down well with them, so they gloss over that aspect of his economic theory and act like it's just all about cutting taxes and slashing red tape and that alone will be enough.

@kat2023. 11 ай бұрын

She should be in prison not making a comeback fgs.

@andrewwalsh2755 11 ай бұрын

If Blair is still free...then Liz can sleep easy... Starmer might want the safety of a prison cell... if he's forced to reveal who sponsored his membership of the Trilateral Commission...

@ianfraser6161 11 ай бұрын

Haha! Bring it on. What numpties.

@ericstoch1182 11 ай бұрын

Mildly offensive how they laugh and joke about policy that is now causing people to loose their homes

@MishMash22 11 ай бұрын

It’s not their fault. It was Truss. 🙄

@jayedwards7520 11 ай бұрын

agree: referring to Truss' premiership as exciting - even from an academic perspective - is pretty insensitive given how much hardship people are going through nowadays. Try harder, NS.

@MrCherryJuice 11 ай бұрын

@@jayedwards7520 No consolation, though it is unlikely those going through hardship are watching this discussion.

@iainl9725 11 ай бұрын

@@jayedwards7520 My take on that was they meant it in the sense that it produced adrenaline, not that it was fun. But agreed, poor choice of words.

@MishMash22 11 ай бұрын

Poor Corbynites triggered cos their commie hero wasn’t involved 🤮

@dennisward-fay9085 11 ай бұрын

With the greatest respect if flat growth is such an issue why has the share of wealth moved to the wealthy there appears to be no issue with the growth of the share of the pie moving to the rich. Growth is an excuse for being able to shift the tax burden further to the low and middle class. If the billionaires around the world were taxed properly there would be no need for austerity. It is however cheaper to buy MPs and favourable policy than pay their fair share of tax.

@arthurmetaxas4653 10 ай бұрын

I just can’t take it any more!

@Nick-kb6jd 11 ай бұрын

How is she even getting any media attentin, let alone still making speeches and an MP. Failing upwards, it's the WM way.

@dereks1264 11 ай бұрын

The lettuce thing was one of the best wheezes ever. I really don't understand blaming the "woke institutions" business. Did she just pull a right-wing dog-whistle out of her bum to cover her gross incompetence or what?

@oldskoolmusicnostalgia 11 ай бұрын

It's what incompetent Conservatives do when they can't confront their ineptitude: blame a straw man. Between immigrants, the French, the Irish and woke culture, they are spoilt for choice.

@DD-sr9xm 11 ай бұрын

Re the market response, the UK was suffering from high inflation accompanied by a budget deficit and a large stock of outstanding debt. She wanted an unfunded aggressive tax cut that would have blown out the deficit and caused heavy additional debt issuance. So more supply means lower prices for bonds. Her tax cut into an economy already suffering from high inflation would have further spiked inflation and the BoE would be forced to hike rates which also sends bond prices lower. Further she fired the head of the OBR and skirted scrutiny via a mini-budget which damages faith in the budget process and hurts bond prices. So in one fell swoop she created a triple whammy on bond/gilt prices. Fund managers HAVE to react. Banks HAVE to execute sell orders. Any bank economist, any bond strategist, would have told her exactly the above. She just didn’t bother to consider the obvious knee jerk reaction. It wasn’t predatory, it wasn’t opportunistic, it was cause and effect.

@user-tr1sm4ln2k 11 ай бұрын

Sunak a grown up, don't make me laugh, he's the size of a 10 year old boy.

@ab2765 11 ай бұрын

Its simple, every £ in cash and assets an individual owns over £10m should be given to the state to pay for public infrastructure and services.

@vikingcsm 11 ай бұрын

A completely incompetent PM…. absolutely unacceptable for her to have any power over and above that of walking a dog.

@blue_jay31 11 ай бұрын

The Tories would back anyone if they thought they would win ! They backed Boris and they new what kind of a person he was ! Just win ,win

@timsimmons5953 11 ай бұрын

God save us from the Brexit lunatics.

@limeyfox 11 ай бұрын

This is the sort of headline that makes me want to start banging my head against a brick wall until the light fades.

@frederickmagill9454 11 ай бұрын

'come back', she should be shoved back - - less than useless.

@gareth7574 11 ай бұрын

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@arthur1670 11 ай бұрын

Before you cut all the taxes…. What services will they stop supplying. No point providing a crappy service…. So what’s on the chopping board ?

@michaeloshea5505 11 ай бұрын

It's like a remake of Carry On Cleo. With Lizzie in the Kenneth Williams role. In fact she looks a lot like Kenneth Williams. Carry on Lizzy 😂

@MrCherryJuice 11 ай бұрын

A very engaging and enlightening exchange, thank you. Rachel Cunliffe obviously has a very in-depth knowledge of and informed opinions on the subject matter (her ability to speak so fluently with little or no prompting is impressive). Despite some viewer comments suggesting the lighthearted approach to such a serious matter is disrespectful to those suffering from the turmoil of Ms. Truss's reign, the laughter is understandable given the sheer calamity of the matter being discussed.

@midlandshgdd 11 ай бұрын

Even the thought of it is ridiculous

@casim8842 11 ай бұрын

Jesus H Christ. On a bike. There are literally NO depths they will not plumb.

@bryansmith1404 11 ай бұрын

Kill me now. Only just keeping afloat now. This is just absolute madness.

@mdb3040 11 ай бұрын

We’ve all forgotten? Speak for yourself. Some of us have mortgages to pay

@steveu449 11 ай бұрын

First rate interview with very clear explanations of economic theories … btw here in Australia we are well used to leadership churn in politics.

@ColinBarrett001 11 ай бұрын

But does your politics churn into cheese, like Truss?

@racheltaylor6578 11 ай бұрын

She was totally unqualified for the job.

@CM73878 11 ай бұрын

Please no.

@theoriginalrecycler 11 ай бұрын

Someone will already be planning an open top tour around London with a pause for photos at the grassy knoll.

@andrewwalsh2755 11 ай бұрын

If Putin could just pop one in during PMQ's... that would help the UK immensely... The futures Green...

@theoriginalrecycler 11 ай бұрын

@@andrewwalsh2755 that could damage the HoP, which I have earmarked for air bnb short stays and a couple of indoor festivals once the reset has taken place

@johnbannister1173 11 ай бұрын

Come back. Are these people for real absolutely crazy she should be paying the 115,000 back to the hard working taxpayers of this country shame on you and her supporters

@rikardogibola1312 11 ай бұрын

go on, do that dance again, oh go on.

@freemanol 11 ай бұрын

I remember saying how f'ed the UK is when she became prime minister. Didn't take long to prove me right

@Cuisinepourmoi 11 ай бұрын

The return of the lettuce 😂

@larslarsen5414 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting as usual. But, sitting here in nice comfy Denmark, I have a question. So, in the UK you have this wealthy Etonian political elite that talk and walk in a funny way. But they also (from what I can judge) still have a very strong hold on British culture. This dominance (that happen through money, language and not least clothes) is playing a big (partly psychological) role in UK politics. What if, say; Rees Mogg, entered the studio and gave the two debaters a huge scolding in perfect English (using words that you do not even know the meaning of). What would they do? Would they just laugh at him? Or would they crumble? Is there a need for some sort of rebellion or is that continental thinking? And what poistion do the two people in the studio have in the British society? Are they middle-class? Did they also go to expensive schools? Or is their background actually irrelevant in modern UK politics? I dont mean to be negative I am honestly just trying to understand the fascinating culture in the UK.

@joinedupjon 11 ай бұрын

lars the people working for the newspapers and TV news are largely from that exact same background anyway, they don't really want to rock the boat. Not sure about Will Done but Rachael came off the Cambridge production line.

@unconventionalideas5683 11 ай бұрын

Britain's voting system helped. See, the main opposition party has fewer Etonian Elites. They do have a few, but not nearly so many. Unfortunately, at the last election, their leader was quite the populist demagogue. Faced with two populist demagogues as the only plausible leaders likely to form a government, the public chose the one that they thought was least awful across many constituencies by a very slim margin. This resulted in a government that was still really awful. It also resulted in Russian Disinformation dictating one of Britain's largest policy mistakes, as seen with Brexit. But there's no limit to the chaos that this Tory Party will bring. I mean, they have literally let hundreds of schools and other government buildings deteriorate to the point where they are now in serious danger of collapsing at any moment. What a disaster.

@michaeladkins6 11 ай бұрын

@@unconventionalideas5683 Boris said"we need an oven ready Brexit" 20 times in the debate and that was good enough. We bought that and divorcing from your biggest trading partner was a good idea.

@InsanitiesBrother 11 ай бұрын

Low tax be damned. It's such short sightedness. I am all for small government. But unless you are prepared to take the political brunt of stripping back social services then low tax can't work. In today's climate it's essentially impossible to implement long term plans if the country instantly hates you.

@ibcanadaboy4381 11 ай бұрын

Completely bonkers - Truss is a total joke.

@robstore22 11 ай бұрын

It would be really funny if it wasn't such a frightening prospect. I really really really hope not.

@shuggiemcg1 11 ай бұрын

I hope she does after the GE and then makes it either as PM or in the shadow cabinet! Because the UK people will not vote the scummy Tory party if she does!! She is considered worse than Cobyn is for Labour!

@gnomevoyeur 11 ай бұрын

Trusting in the absolute positivity of the free market leads you to the weaknesses of the modern USA. Similarly, trusting too much in the public sector leads to the awful consequences of mid 20th century China and the USSR. All the best countries seem to have found a reasonable balance of both.

@grahamthomson6969 11 ай бұрын

Did Kwarteng and Truss EVER apologise?

@gavp5928 11 ай бұрын

Such a fun time? Exciting time?..... are you kidding me?

@PanglossDr 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic. Bring her back and the Tories will be annihilated in the next election.

@midlandgeordie 11 ай бұрын

🤞🤞🤞

@lv3609 11 ай бұрын

The ending: “Yeah, another lettuce…” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@gavinmcclement 11 ай бұрын

Let her talk. She’s outing all the other crackpots.

@handbanana4899 11 ай бұрын

You know there was a time I'd say this was impossible, but BoJo somehow managed to become PM after being notoriously shite.

@TheTTTTC 11 ай бұрын

So much explaination of what the Tories and IEA say about free market ideas - no discussion if what they say is actually true! Not entirely convinced by what an economist draws on a napkin...

@decus9544 11 ай бұрын

If Liz Truss ever gets within a country mile of No.10 again, it would truly be the end for the UK.

@user-ii6rb8zk3i 11 ай бұрын

She's having laugh. 45 days no one missed her .she's better gone she has some nerve showing her face in public again. She cost chaos

@stevenhenry5267 11 ай бұрын

The pork markets have missed her.

@barryc1968 11 ай бұрын

Liz Truss the women who starved the pig, slaughtered it, and made a loss.

@colinwhite5355 11 ай бұрын

Fun, in the same way that drowning in quick-sand is fun.

@stannats2637 11 ай бұрын

Lettuce please

@BargainBarons 11 ай бұрын

You mistakenly capitalized the word SUPPORTER in the title.... 😂🤣🤣

@gavinedinburgh 11 ай бұрын

This is lunacy...time this lot were in opposition.

@Bevan1988 11 ай бұрын

It was so fun to see the economy in turmoil and people struggling to get mortgages at prices they could afford. So fun.

@erongi233 11 ай бұрын

If she comes back it will be the biggest comeback since Lazarus. This,I experience, is often the apparent thinking of those who went to Oxbridge . The chosen ones lacking humility

@ToothbrushMan 11 ай бұрын

Truss is someone that my mother would have called a "nice gel". So absorbs whatever indoctrination so readily, with so much conviction, with so much belief that it is the "one true ideology", that had she been born in another country she would have been an ideal subject for a suicide bomber. Fortunately (or unfortunately), she was indoctrinated with the Tory ideology - her entire knowledge of economics can be boiled down to a mantra of "low taxes and low public spending". Being a contributor to "Britannia Unchained" only served to feed her conviction in her ideology and to pump her ego about being some sort of economic guru.