'How not to be Prime Minister': Liz Truss biographer lifts lid on shortest ever premiership
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- James O'Brien speaks to Sir Anthony Seldon, political commentator and contemporary historian - who is the author of the new book 'Truss at 10 - How not to be Prime Minister'.
Liz Truss served a record 49 days as Prime Minister, a time in the job eclipsed by Sir Keir Starmer this week. Sir Anthony says 'she went about growth the wrong way and still thinks she is right and we are all responsible' and that 'she saw enemies everywhere'.
Sir Anthony concludes saying he has sympathy for her because she believed in the right thing, which was growth and areas left behind, 'but wanting to make life better for people is not good enough when the delivery is catastrophic.'
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I was a mental health nurse for 22 years,and worked with clients who had less serious cases of delusions of grandeur than Truss has. She possesses virtually zero self awareness.
It was almost Shakespearean how she descended into a political madness. She remains disturbed
She must be suffering with the same complaint as Trump...!
@@kennybrown1315descended?
He should be in Carry on Films with a voice like that.
Truss is clearly mentally ill in my opinion.
Delusional and shameless.
Thick as well. Talk about failing upwards.
Agreed, I think there was always something not quite right but the failure of premiership only amplified that to the point that she now appears genuinely disturbed.
Personality disorders are not, under the MHA 1983, classified as psychiatric conditions.
@@fozzy20 Embarrassingly innumerate, despite her parents being lecturers in mathematics at the University of Leeds.
"She still thinks that she was right..." sums it all up perfectly!
Not according to the damage she inflicted to my meagre savings ; made them ' meagre- er !'
Family mortgages went up over 500 quid I'll never forget and she has her pension and out on the gravy train ..madness
@@susanpettitt713 she did leave a lasting impression.....
One tiny bit of consolation. It is not a pension. Truss has access to an expense account, the Public Duty Costs Allowance, from which she can claim costs incurred because she is an ex-prime minister, but at least it is not paying for her time.
@@clarecrawford9677 Yes, thank you for clarifying this misunderstanding. She can only claim from the time when she left the Office as PM to when she lost her seat. The Cabinet office has not issued a set of accounts as to who claimed the allowance, and this included Bojo as well.
Yet millions wiped off people’s pension funds too.
@@clarecrawford9677the question is, what costs can she claim for?
She belongs in prison, alongside Kwarteng, Johnson and Hancock.
Add Patel, cleverly, braverman and jenrick to that list. 👍 Wembly stadium would be packed for the trial.
@@nick78447 you forgot Blair, Khan and Campbell😵💫
Whats the crime? Ineptitude isn't a crime.
@@tonybell9739 You forgot Cameron (Libya), Gideon (austerity) and May (Windrush)
@@cup1966wow
It's a matter of record, that she and Kwarteng were in collusion with the disaster capitalists who profited from the destruction of the UK economy.
Sadly, Liz Truss's latest book is just the tip of the iceberg. None of her dignity romaines. Cos she sold it
Baby gem of a comment.
Let us hope
@@Mark-jr6ld Lettuce*
Lettuce pray.
Indeed, it was a sorrel state of affairs.
How incompetent do you have to be to make Boris Johnson look like a better PM by comparison?
Easy, wait til Shitstorm Starmer is done.
@@keirmitchell5560 He's only just started and already done that.
@@keirmitchell5560 How very silly.
@@The_Phoenix_Saga Really? How? Details, please.
@@keirmitchell5560 He's already the 2nd best PM we've had this century!
It was blatantly obvious she was going to f"'* it up.
But I'll admit, I didn't expect it to be in such a short time😂
It wasn't a f up to all her backers that made billions
@@howlsyful that just makes it even worse
I said same thing about liebore. 50 days worse than 14 years of tory. F**k it up is putting it mildly
@@MrKarlyboy oh really, what reasons have you for that assessment?
@@MrKarlyboyjust trolling…😊
How did she get a pension for life after 49 days,that needs to be answered.
It’s not a pension. Truss has access to an expense account, the Public Duty Costs Allowance, from which she can claim costs incurred in being an ex-prime minister. It does not pay for her time. Daft American right-wingers do that.
She can only claim her pension once she reaches pensionable age. What she was entitled to claim was an allowance, not a pension, that is an ongoing myth. It is the Public Duty Service Allowance and is up to £115k, for additional secretarial support and security. It is means tested and she can only claim it from when she was a ex PM to when she lost her seat as an MP. Details are on the cabinet office website.
And she will turn up at the Cenotaph every year wearing something silly on her head next to an even more shambolic Bunter
@@michaelhearn3052 that's ok then,115,000 a year wasted on that waster,not a pension so everything is fine,
He won’t turn up. No way.
Currently reading her book 'Ten years to Save The West' .. .....in a strange perverted way , I'm enjoying it. Truss's problem ,a complete lack of awareness that trickle down economics is fundamentally flawed and a failure to accept that the people in government that she depended on were educated people and as such highly likely to have progressive views . As the ex Tory MP Rory Stewart observed , if he was out canvassing and saw lots of books in the home ... he knew they weren't going to vote Tory.
I was given Farage's "The Purple Revolution" as a joke present. However, I did read it cover-to-cover, finding it a very telling insight into his bombastic mindset, his at times delusional thinking, his overweening ego, his desperate neediness for attention and relevance, all of which he is obviously completely blind to.
And by buying these comic books you have helped to further inflate the egos of both of those lunatics.
@@JohnPark-xf2gq It is important to "know thy enemy".
@gijgij4541 Indeed ... 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer'
Hey John, why is her book called 'Ten years to Save The West' ? I she seeing herself as the saviour of the 'free' world or something?
Of course she should apologise. But I don't think she can. She's incapable of doing so.
She only ever made one mistake and that was when she thought she made a mistake.
Not the only thing she was incapable of.
@JoinedtodaySowhat Her visit to the palace was followed soon after by the death of the Queen.
Apologies from the likes of Truss, have no value.
@JoinedtodaySowhat Apologies for anything she does, says, thinks or writes - take your pick.
Don't blame the Queen for giving up, she probably saw truss and thought f this
That is rather inappropriate. But I did snort.
I like to deduct the 14 days of mourning off Truss' tenure. Parliament wasn't meeting; government wasn't doing anything.
It's still ridiculous that Johnson's resigning didn't trigger an automatic election and instead they got to appoint Truss and then Sunak.
Not only ridiculous but anti-democratic. Proportional representation is needed.
Not really we vote for a party not a person. The "leader " is just branding that makes it easier to get votes.
I think you will find that besides the MPs in the Tory government who voted so did members of the Tory party as well.
@@DRIFT_CORE Strange though isn't it, that if an MP defects to another party midway through their term of office, we throw away the party and keep the person/personality. The direct opposite of what our parliamentary 'democracy' espouses.
TBF, the parliamentary system operates on the assumption that hundreds of people, all of whom have been endorsed by thousands -- collectively millions -- of people, would be able to draw on enough competence to steady the ship without the disruption of a national election mid-term.
But then, nobody could have predicted or planned for what the Conservative Party has become. Maybe we need a re-think . . .
The only conspiracy I see around Liz Truss was that of promoting her so far beyond her capabilities and capacities..
“They’re all out to get me.. ” is usually one of the first signs of madness
Infamy!
"They" took one look at her and decided, quite properly, that she had to go. Maybe they were all out to get her, thankfully they got her reasonably quickly albeit not quickly enough.
She's probably still mad that Lettuce lasted longer than her run as Prime Minister.
Key word is mad.
That's not funny! She told me so.
Lettuces serve a purpose. Truss never has.
The lettuce would have been better as Prime Minister.
We know about ´functioning alcoholics´ but is there such a thing as a ´functioning lunatic´?
😂
The British press didn't show how much damage this psychopath did, which is worse!
'Her' 'plan' was;
1. drink the koolaid
2. obey the instructions of Tufton Street
3. repeat
4. Throw a tantrum.
“Most experienced Cabinet Office Minister” - yeah she spent lots of time sat in Cabinet achieving absolutely nothing, glorious experience.
She even arguably helped cause the Ukraine war. During her "diplomatic mission" she basically just yelled at the Russians and then spent a day getting Instagram photos (literally).
She sat in a tank,then tanked the economy.
She was indeed the most experienced prime minister. Name other living former UK prime minister who served more monarchs than her! NONE!!!
Delusion of grandeur, one Liz Truss. No grace, talent or humility.
I don't think she'd know how to even spell humility.
Delusions of adequacy more like
I dont mean any hate to her, but i think she is not right mentally. She is the kind of person who would come last in a race but still think she won and came first.
That’s how I would describe Jeremy Corbyn voters.
@@MrWhitmen1981Jeremy Corbyn voters seem quite happy with him winning, so I'm not sure your point?
@@MrWhitmen1981Corbyn was anti NATO and called for an investigation into them back in 1990..same way Farage doesn't like them.
He sent McDonnel to Davos to go and bark on the billionaire supervillains..just like the Reform supporters want Farage to do.
He also was quite ambivalent about remain.
I'm not sure why Corbyn receives so much vitriol from you, considering those are all things Reform supporters seem to view as massively important.
Instead of a meaningless apology try asking what sort of philosophy is inspiring rank & file Tory voters to elect Truss in the first place?
Likely it was their fear of Reform and the promise from more tax breaks for the wealthy, she wasn't Sunak and she was trying to kick of a Thatcher vibe!
A white woman vs. a brown man. Hmm, let me ponder what happened...
@@rachcampb100% ^^
Why is no one ever held to account?
No apology just being held accountable!
As Truss was incompetent as a Minister, giving her more power was a self fulfilling prophecy.
She was ludicrously inept as foreign secretary
@@rosemarycuthbert4623 yeah coz David lammy is such a great statesman, didn't a major world power snub the fool recently 🤡
And yet, she's still completely in denial
He lost me when he called her “clever”. She was, without any shadow of doubt, the stupidest, most bone-headed and incompetent PM we’ve ever had. No-one else even comes close. It’s quite frightening that someone so fundamentally & obviously ill-suited to the job could actually inveigle their way into power.
'Cleverness' is when you know a tomato is a fruit. 'Intelligence' is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad.
I think Truss 100% knows it was all her fault and it was doomed to fail. I think what's happened is she saw how Bojo always tried to style out his F*ck ups and learnt one lesson: "As long as i don't admit i was wrong, there will be people who will always think i'm right - And therefore it remains a debate"
Post-shame politics. Trump didn't just damage America.
500 Billion off your pension funds !!!!!
Please explain how 500 billion GBP of stocks and bonds were apparently lost due to Liz truss.
The Bank of England and the Treasury are equally to blame
@@Lynnpjjbdndji again,you have no arguments what hold water.a very unhealthy obsession with Liz Truss...smoke screen??😂
@@KierStalin Simple, it's because her mini budget caused turmoil in the bond, and stock market. Both of which, pensions are invested in.
@@KierStalinLiz truss shook confidence in the UK by announcing un costed tax cuts.
Truss is a Tory, they never apologise.
There's literally no difference between you and Tories, you're both big state authoritarians, you're both mass Immigration, you're both net zero, you're both high taxes, you're both hate speech laws and censorship, you're both as corrupt as they come.
@jamessteel9016 Blair is a war criminal and walking free.
Neither does Starmer!
@@jamessteel9016 There's literally no difference between your beloved labour party and the Tories.
@@KierStalin Rwanda is a difference. Not nuking the makets in 40 days is another 🤡
The Peter Principle - She rose to a level beyond her competence, and instead of it being simply a step too far, she was overwhelmed by the job.
To put it another way; As a minister she had been used to being "managed" to some degree, but when she became _The Manager_ she couldn't cope with the demands.
A political figure that goes from being a Liberal Democrat, to Campaigning for the US Republican partly, tells you all you need to know about the type of person she is. Being in power matters more to her than the the reason for being in power.
Yeah...because lib dems NEVER sell out to conservatives...
Left, center or right we can all agree, Truss should be nowhere near parliament and was never fit to be PM
Did this guy just say that Liz Truss is smart? Are we talking about the same Liz Truss? The pork markets lady?
Lady?
@@renrutmat Last I looked, yes
And let's all thank the Conservative party membership for inflicting her on us despite all the obvious warnings that she was an utter plank.
You should listen to Rory Stewart on what it was like to work for her.
Only in Tory Britain could this happen.
" Some of you will die, but its a choice I'm willing to take "
Are you talking about Starmer letting pensioners freeze so he can pay off his donors and mates in the unions?
"some of you may die, but it is a sacrifice, that I, am willing to make".
@@KierStalin Conjecture- not a single pensioner has died yet from this policy 🤣. Besides, didn't the grey demographic vote Tory for 14 years? Chickens coming home to roost
@@SeArCh4DrEaMz Just a slight paraphrase
@@KierStalin Maybe take a quick read of this;
Mortality rates among men and women: impact of austerity
Published Friday, 06 January, 2023
Just google it.
Yes of course she should apologise but being the Sociopath she is any apology would be utterly worthless. She's not capable of feeling remorse and is a pathological liar anyway so any apology would be extremely disengenuous.
How can one call her intelligent when she made such an utter mess of being prime minister.
She managed to con a load of people into thinking she was right for the job.
Malignant narcissist plain and simple, and this is why she feels at home now consorting with MAGA in the US. And let’s put her failure into perspective, just think how many hospitals those multi billions lost could have built.
go James, love listening to ya !
She's basically our MTG 😂
She went on to stardom as Liv Struss, great comedian.
It’s really an expensive mistake to have her as PM, despite only 40 days. 😢😢
How can you feel sympathy for her she thought abouth cutting cancer treatment for NHS patients , and also cutting tax for the rich when the rest of us were struggling to pay our bills . She rightly earned her place in history , but not for the right reasons !
@@robertabbott7770 how about cutting winter fuel payments?to pensioners? You extreme hard left are detached from reality.and where is the evidence for this other than guardian extreme hard left paranoia
She wanted to make life better for people? She considered stopping cancer treatment on the US to sustain her agenda. Really.
The one overarching compelling reason why Tories should never get near power again. The fact that the party which for decades was the party of ‘fiscal responsibility’ could let this lunatic loose and hurl our country into a chaotic abyss simply beggars belief.
She's an object of ridicule
The sad fact is she was voted in by the conservative party members ! now what does that tell you !
Lousy system & they have no sense, common or otherwise.
A mixture of the mega rich and the hard of thinking.
They wanted the white person, not the brown person.
Truss was the least suited person ever to hold the office. And following on from Boris Johnson that really is saying something.
Liz Truss- All tip no iceberg.
Great title
Iceberg lettuce maybe.
"Look, they're all out of step 'cept our Billy!"
Truss is writing a new autobiography called "Infamy Infamy... They've all got it in for me"
They just can't let her go, can they? Why on earth Truss gets so much attention in the media is really odd.
She wrecked a lot of peoples lives in her two months...
She is calling for an inquiry to prove it wasn't her fault. She can't let it go.
@@phill6859 The media only give her oxygen. Ignored she will evaporate.
She’s the one who won’t let go !
They shouldnt let just party members decide on a PM
The trickle down effect, the only thing we get trickled down isn't money, its white and pearly.
Truss & Kwarteng were both Tufton Street acolytes, steeped in the think-tanks' economic dogma, particularly low taxation for the best-off, and of course the richest.
The mini-budget was based on the notion of tax cuts for the highest earners and worse still these were not funded, but would be paid for by borrowing. This made no economic sense. The markets regarded it as insanity, so saw Britain as a unstable, risky investment so swiftly started to dump its bonds.
Truss has complained that leftie economists were sabotaging her, but that's just not the case. The markets are pragmatic and it was because Truss and Kwarteng were flouting fundamental economic theory and sense that they reacted as they did.
This is what happens when Tufton Street dogma gets exposed to the real world, particularly market economics. What's extraordinary is that Truss is still convinced that she was right and reality was wrong.
She's mad.
Let's not mince words here .
Mad.
Lost me on
" she is very clever "
I can’t see how she can be described as smart or clever…. Please explain.
How is truss going to be punished?
I saw a stream where she was being interviewed on American TV about a month ago. The interviewer was addressing her as "Prime Minister" which I thought was hilarious. I know Americans do this type of stuff but that's ridiculous!
In America, former presidents are still referred to as "President", even if they aren't in office. Maybe they assume the same is true here?
@@simonwilliams7266 I already mentioned that Americans do that kind of thing in my post. Did you not bother reading it?
@@michaelmccarthy9411 so it's not really that ridiculous then is it? Lol.
@@simonwilliams7266 it is ridiculous and so is she!
@@michaelmccarthy9411 we can both agree she is ridiculous 😛
She’s absolutely insane.
She has sold her soul to Heritage foundation..deluded...
I think I would rather read a biography about the Lettuce
"Well, tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be Margaret Thatcher."
So she was not well in the head 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lettuce draw a line under the whole situation and move on
That’s a little gem
With respect she wasn’t smart she was a fool
...and she's still in denial.....
@@stephenblanchard8973 what is she in denial about?
@@KierStalin Her utter failure.
BTW, any chance of you adopting a grown-up user name?
Her parents must be so embarrassed.
She was simply and completely out of her depth..
LOL - If she had listened to the lettuce then she woild not have made such complete hash from day one !!!.
She is living proof that she was 'promoted to her level of incompetence' and proved EVERYONE CORRECT !!.
She didn't just have a chip on her shoulder -SHE HAD THE WHOLE CHIP SHOP !!.
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Cancelling NHS cancer treatment is not “making life better for people”.
It's delusional
Whenever she opens her mouth she does not come across as clever at all...there's a big difference between book smart and being clever.
She's not fit to be allowed out on her own.
And if you get an apology it will be with, it's not enough.
Yawn
But then realised, Ganin Williamson had raw ability, just raw
Liz Truss - yet to reach her level of incompetence.
Has she no shame? 😮
Nope
It's possible to be the only person marching in step if a band is playing.
And yet there are people out there who strongly defend her approach and still blame those 'other people' for what happened during those 44 days or whatever it was.
The way her head wobbles worries me
Who put her in office?
Smart? Liz Truss? Not a chance. She cared about people - REALLY? Anthony Seldon needs a check-up too.
The Queen of Tufton Street 😂😂
I almost bought this at the airport but I couldn’t risk anyone thinking I was reading her autobiography!
If you’re interested in UK politics, buy this book. It’s a polite but brutal takedown of someone clearly unsuited for high office.
Anthony Seldon is marvellous, he writes beautifully and profoundly and is so dryly funny too.
Truss' 2022 administration was an entirely American project.
She taken in the cash by shorting the pound, then causing the pound to crash.
Of course she thinks she did a great job.
Your videos always stand out from many others. Thank you for your talent and hard work!🔵👿🥦
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@@DrEnriqueWestonthe latest wave is just sycophantic praise of the content. I can’t see who would benefit enough to pay for that apart from the channels themselves
@@minui8758 correct,lbc showed who's interests they serve during "the pandemic"
I love laughing at how the Americans are carrying on with trump then i remember we had truss running our country and its not so funny
@KierStalin Simple, it's because her mini budget caused turmoil in the bond, and stock market. Both of which, pensions are invested in.
It would help if people like @keirstalin knew the first thing about how investments work before making uninformed comments.
Bearing in mind also, that if the queen hadn't died, Truss's premiership would have been even shorter.
The question is , who was the most insane Truss or the Tories who voted into the job.
She cared so much she wanted to end cancer treatments
DisasTruss, find a jail cell for her, wouldn't care if they let Barabus out to provide the place.