Liz Truss’s ploy to ruin the Conservative Party’s election chances
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2024
- “That is the huge dagger at the heart of the Conservative Party's election chances.”
A “terrific defeat” for the Conservatives “must be in the interests of Liz Truss” and her wing of the party, who continue to make the case for the 'Truss agenda'.
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I’m pushing ninety. I have never been so disgusted with the performance of any government in all my time. The Conservatives do not have a chance.
100% agree. Virtually all MPs are a disgrace. Andrew Bridgen can provide proof of that.
Let's hope you never have to witness another Tory government in your lifetime.
@@IntelligentArtefactand lives to 1,000 years old
I'll give her one thing, she's right in saying we have ten years to save the West but that is by ensuring the Tories are kept out of power.
Trump AND the Tories more like.
So you're a Conservative through and through then...😂
@@ianworley8169 Whatever you say, Doctor Retardo..
@@ianworley8169a British Trump is our last hope
@@Wolf-hh4rv Well, you have exiled Farage , one man with a bit of sense proposing for Britain ! STOP importing Moslem invaders to colonise your society for Islam !!!
Slight whiff of power and she went full megalomaniac
I don't agree. She had conservative policies. That is where she went wrong, oh and also Sunak failed to get the job so as the previous chancellor everything was in place to bounce her out of the job. I didn't agree with her policies but her termination was no surprise to me.
ABSOLUTEMENT.
What a weird person she is.
Probably why she was accepted into the Tory party.🤪😂
Very weird, only conservative members would vote her in, the general public on the other hand think Liz is nuts
A text book narcissist.
ABSOLUTEMENT.
@@billkingston4402SHE IS NUTS.
Truss is a vital electoral asset for the Labour Party.
Yep, if you even for a minute consider voting Tory just remember it was them that gave us Truss as PM, 'nough said...
@@Andrew-tx9jyNot quite enough said: Cases to take into consideration: Brexiplonker Dave, Tearful Teresa, unspeakable Boris, twister Ricci too. And that's just till Aoril 2024, some real whakos in tne wings.
@@andyrendell7430 Sorry I thought all the other Tory nutters went without saying...
Liz should move to Florida, plenty of friends there
Florida is damn amazing nowadays. California on the other hand is a disaster
Where's his evidence that the Tories are economically competent and 'prudent' with the nation's finances? Every time they get into power, the country's infrastructure and vital services fall to bits. Or are infrastructure and vital services not part of the economy?
He just said that's what people think not that its true. And people do think that despite all the evidence to the contrary. Labour have grown the economy massively every time they have got into power but somehow people forget this. I don't think people actually know the stats behind the economy they just got this idea that the Conservatives are good from somewhere and it wont shift.
@@backgammonbaconThe result of Tory media outlets feeding the usual propaganda B.S.
I think it's more about a perception of reigning in "expenses". It's why the Blair government could go on a spending spree after Major. Obviously expenses mean different things to different people and as you cut ever deeper into ever aging infrastructure investment while international competition around you grows it becomes more of a dangerous tactic, Camerons austerity programme was particularly disastrous, evident by the stagnation in productivity in the UK since. I don't think Sunak is much different to Truss, re crippling HS2 and reducing investment in green industries, two areas that could actually improve productivity in the UK, specifically in the North, the Tories now are more like a one trick pony over reliant on the unicorn of the spontaneous entrepreneur that is meant to mythically appear from tax cuts where in reality tax cuts just increases our existing poor trade deficit and continues the cycle of the south east heavily to give hand outs to the rest of the country.
But they get very rich 🤑
Its just a comfort blanket they grasp at.
I'm not sure she could lower the Conservative Party’s election chances if she tried. They are already out of the gutter and well down the drain on their way to the river outfall.
They'll have to get past the Tory sewage in the river outfall first...
If anyone could, Liz could
Don't you mean sewerage outfall?
TR seems to be implying Truss is the conservative party's problem. That is a blatant distraction from how far right the tory's have gone.
It's still early days and believing polls is a 'fool's paradise'. Firstly, many Tory voters have a long tradition of deserting the party mid-term to apply pressure on policy. So, there will be many right-wing people not voting in local or by-elections and telling lies to pollsters. These people always vote in general elections and never want Labour. Then there's the matter of Reform leeching crucial votes from Tory candidates. In theory, this appears great for Labour - in practice Reform takes votes from Labour too (May discovered this in 2017 when she wrongly assumed post referendum all 2015 UKIP votes would go Tory). Also it's looking probable the Tory Party will shift to the right and make an election pact with Reform to leave the ECHR and stop the boats. This would mean Reform and Tories not contesting the same seat and making the general election all about 'the boats'. As Harold Wilson famously once said: _"A week is a long time in politics."_
It won’t be the men in grey suits who give her advice, it will be the men in white coats who take her away!
They all thinks she's bonkers. But the Tory members would take her back in a heartbeat 😂
ABSOLUTEMENT.
So fascist for a lettuce!
Lettuce are allowed to be fascist.
I listened to the lettuce speaking this afternoon in the House Of Commons when they were debating the proposed smoking ban. I have read that 2/3rds of the population support the ban. Over 70% of Conservative voters support the smoking ban. She had the bare brass neck to claim that large chunks of her party are not listening to the public. I don't know what Lizzie Lettuce has been smoking but I don't think it's Dunhill Luxury Length.
Have they ever listened to the public?
I'm just surprised the Conservatives still have some support amongst the population.
Journalists should NEVER go for dinner or drinks with ANY politician, good or bad. Your job is to hold them to account .
Liz Tuss - You want Crazy you get Crazy.
Having Liv Struss doing that audiobook would almost make worth listening to. Not that I will anyway because I have to pay a lot more money on my mortgage now
She should be in prison for all the misery she caused.
Not the only one. A lot of minsters and ex-ministers in recent Tory governments should be prosecuted for misconduct in public office.
If you put all the conservatives in prison for the criminal behaviour that they cursed this country harm, then we'd need to build more prisons.
Admittedly Truss belongs in a padded cell wearing a fashionable straight jacket. She's bonkers!!
Think Liz Truss. Think cheese. Think lettuce. Think crazy. 😂😂
I wonder if the Chinese pork markets still think of Liz Truss? 😅
She obviously hasn’t thought things out by publishing her book, she has single handedly uncovered the Conservatives agenda. Congratulations Liz Thank you for showing the Conservatives true colours.
You'd think this failure of a woman would disappear and hide from the public stage forever. What a waste of space.
They are all collectively shameless
I'd still give her One. But that's a score out of Ten.
‘Magical thinker’ that is very generous. She’s a wolly brain.
Tory party watching the far right making nuts decisions
She was part of their imminent catastrophe, and will be remembered for being the shortest serving PM and the most inept! flushed!
Truss isn't a Conservative. Economic prudence is an alien concept to her. She is also totally lacking in self-awareness.
Hey, we have seen what prudence a conservative government exercises the last 14 years😂
It's a Good job she was Removed from being the PM , just another Trump supporter 😢😢
Truss is an idiot. if she tried to make the Tories do badly, it'd probably make them do better.
Conservative party are traitors. They have destroyed my country. The UK is finished. Shame on you
Which of the current crop would you call a true conservative. I'm not being ironic, I'd be interested to know.
Truss ..........a fruit and nut case .
I would liked to have seen her more distraught over what her policies had done to people but this doesn't seem to be the case.
An ego run riot, but whats really disturbing they took her seriously
ABSOLUTEMENT.
truss can it get more cringe ?
Liz Truss is merely twisting the dagger which is already in the heart of the Conservative Party.
Good.
She is the dagger 🗡️ 😮
TIL it has one. I've known it had no brain for 14 years.
The Liz Truss libertarian agenda isn’t really about appealing to a significant bloc of the voting public. It’s about appealing to American billionaires who might write you a big cheque.
her voice.. urg
How did Norfolk select her ?
Have you ever met people from
Norfolk?
Yeah, well that's a question that surely answers itself.
How is because it's Norfolk!
They must have been paid.
Interbreeding
Norfolk is a Tory Stonghold. They would vote for a pig with a blue rosette. If only that were the option instead of Truss.
If it sounds like a child and it looks like a child then it is a child, in the world of politics.
That ship has sailed ... LONG AGO.
just flogging the book, and as for the tory party, flogging a dead horse.
Not even Tice would have her. 😄
Zero seats!
I really thought that was Nerine Skinner doing one of her excellent Liv Struss spoofs. Is that really printed in Liz Truss' book?
Yes, Nerine Skinner reading genuine excerpts from the book.
I thought she decomposed already
No that was a vegeta... oh, wait.
No, people laughed when Lizzy was sacked after a few weeks but in the end, the lettuce is gone and Lizzy lives on. Lettuce pray for britain.
Wow! I never knew that Liz was a comedy writer
If she opens her package again , its like Pandora's box!.
She is comedy gold.
I rarely agree with his views but think Mandelson is spot on about the values of the Red Wall differing from the libertarian right
Goodbye tories, 30 years of obscurity awaits!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊
Don't be so sure - the English are a masochistic lot.
I'm glad Liz is still exposing herself on the national stage - let's get Boris, May and the whole motley of fools together as a reminder of the "best" that this party can offer
Its already a joke in America...
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.
Shes still an MP?
Yet another one not doing her job at home while swanning around the nutters speech circuit.
Liz Truss. A triumph of ambition over competence.
Once upon a time a lettuce went to live in number 10 and thought she was extremely clever, more so than everyone else at least.
But the big bad crash proved she was wrong and everyone paid for her mistakes.
Then she wrote comedic book about her adventures.
Not listening to anything anout liz the lettuce for 40 minutes.
People are sleeping on the streets can't afford to pay their bills and we're wasting our lives talking about this waste of space
She really does come across as unhinged. And has the personality of a lettuce. Whatever you thought about Mrs Thatcher she had charisma and was clearly very intelligent. Liz Truss has gone from a Cameroon Tory supporting Remain to hanging around with Steve Bannon talking about the "deep state". I cannot imagine what her family think. It's quite a difference.
Her parents were Labour supporters.
Her Dad is professor of maths at University of Leeds. So he's probably intelligent enough to be horrified. Truss said herself in an interview yesterday that her parents still argue with her about her politics.
Liz Truss is “not really a deep thinker”?
That is the greatest understatement I have heard all year.
The problem with Truss is that there are a few nuggets of truth in the midst of her complete hallucinations
I'm no fan of Truss and her terrible regressive policies. But the mainstream narrative that she "crashed the economy" just doesn't add up. The stock market dipped around the time that interest rates went up. That's normal. And the stock market doesn't even represent the economy particularly well.
Yet every single news outlet jumped on the opportunity to blame her for everything, without any skepticism.
Urgh this woman is awful.
I do agree with you, now I'm not a Tory, but think of how awful she is from their perspective, they have the local elections coming next month, many councillors up and down the country, who themselves might be working hard locally are having to compete with Liz Truss for space in the minds of the voters! It just goes to show how truly dreadful she is, not just as a PM but as a human being and proves that she totally lacks any level of self-awareness.
She is mentally ill I think.
Truss is mad,the only good thing is she adds to the Tories woes!!
Tories are finished!!!
Nerine Skinner needs to do the whole book. It's Partridge-grade material. But with the very scary aspect that that was a former Prime Minister 😮
She was a bad apple for sure. 🙀
She is just doing a farage inspired grift to grab as much cash as she can from telling pretty unpleasant people what they want to hear and should be ignored.
Truss is the icing on a rotten cake called The Tory Party!!!!
You assume Truss is clever……
Has any normal people brought her book? Or is it just political journalists. That's the only people I hear talking about her.
Don’t you mean her second ploy? Her first one was in 2022.
impossible to do the tories are dust luz truss very important to the labour party lol
Imagine being able to want to support truss
The bit about Nick Clegg refusing to authorise larger childcare ratios is not a "win" to brag about. It genuinely could have transformed affordability and supply of childcare over the last 10 years.
The result of no reform is poorer families. Good job, Nick!
If she really wanted to deliver, deliver, deliver, why didn't she get a job at a pizzeria, a meal home delivery serive or a logistics company?
GET A GRIP THEY LOST 2 YRS AGO
She delivered alright for the banks the book should have been called how to get 120,000 a year pension for destroying a country
Thoughts and prayers for her father. Kids can be so f... annoying.
She would be best being auditioned for a part in Star Trek The Unseen Generation 😂😂😂
I don’t think anyone can further damage their election prospects except perhaps Sunak.
Polly - spot on.
These politicians are about to find out the true meaning of job insecurity, and how hard it is to get a new job when you’re over forty, especially when your experience and skills have been gained in a narrow sphere. We’re living in interesting times.
Great Jackie weaver reference
Conservatives election chances 🤩🤩 is hilarious
A lot of people would still give her One.
But that's a score out of Ten.
A sad woman. Sadder still that she became leader of the country on the whim of Conservative Party members, and not a vote of the country. Just goes to show how out-of-touch party members are.
No offence that's how our constitution works.
We liked Liz in Russia. She's funny😁
I love watching conservatives complain about how incompetent their own politicians but fail to see the irony.
GO LIZ, GO !!!
😆😆😆😆😆🤣🤣
Around 17'00" Mandelson is not sure who is likely to support Truss. Just look who her friends are: Trump, Bannon, Wilders, Orbán. She (not the exploded Johnson) is now the QAnon representative in England.
What a bizarre take on Liz Trusses intentions lololol
The Conservative party need to expel her, she is in need of mental health help!
Nice to hear some grown-ups for a change, and to hear even Tories pleading for realism.
Claiming "All Libertarians want a police state" is insane, takes zero understanding of political ideologies to make such a claim
What about the guy that claimed everyone was happy when Johnson got brexit done, and that his personality is popular?
There was quite a lot of nonsense being spouted.
'Claiming "All Libertarians want a police state" is insane,"
Well maybe not all, but most of them. If you read the small print on libertarianism it only ever means liberty for rich white people and everyone else should know their place and take orders from their superiors.
If you want to know a person's real motives you should never listen to what they say but watch what they do when faced with difficult choices. So what did the self-styled 'libertarians' of the Tory party do when faced with public sector workers demanding more liberty in the form of living wages? They passed laws restricting their liberty to go on strike. That shows their real motives.
All the liberties people have wrung from powerful people at the top have come through left wing agitation, not right wing 'libertarians'.
You'll never see a self-styled 'libertarian' on the picket lines with workers striking for more liberty in their lives.
You'll never see a self-styled 'libertarian' on the Channel beaches welcoming destitute refugees from authoritarian regimes seeking liberty on our shores.
That's because self-styled 'libertarians' do not care for liberty for the masses, it's only ever liberty for the very rich, and a police state for everyone else.
Putin is the finest example of 'libertarian' around. He has the liberty to do whatever he wants and every one else in Russia lives in a police state.
But they’re not true libertarians, they’re ultra conservatives who abuse the term.
Libertarianism as an ideology might technically advocate against such a policy. In practice, though, every libertarian elected to high office slashes everything except the security services - then uses those to maintain the status quo while the rest burns.
They need the police state though, as the oligarchy created, makes the masses rebel. There hasn't been a libertarian state, where the majority of people have happilly participated, or had their living standards increase. In the best possible outcome, you get a one off burst of meritocracy, where the winners and their decendants become lords, and the decendants of the losers, stay poor serfs, irregardless of merit.
They have sunk their chances all by themselves, don't need any more help from Lizzy
Truss is a lot of fuss about nothing.
Well, 49 days as Tory prime minister will cement her place in British political history as an incompetent failure
Peter Mandelson strikes me as the personification of everything that is wrong in the Labour Party today: a focus on politics rather than people. I'd go so far as to suggest that he sees people as a block to politician's lofty ambitions. Thank you Matt for answering Mandy's 'rhetorical' question about Corbyn's response to the Iran/Israel conflict as wanting "peace"- best part of the podcast!
Just remember the members selected her to be the PM. It should never be allowed to happen again.
Danny is a voice of reason
Sunak . Please no more of this WEF plant. GTF
Some conservative she is. Cutting taxes and increasing borrowing and expecting the invisible hand of the market to do it's work.
ZERO SEATS
Lizzy is a Trumpite grifter
When will the Tories get that not everyone that was alive in during the Thatcher regime are nostalgic about it. What actually did Thatcher achieve for working class, income and NI paying Britons, without an accountant?
What did May, Johnsone, Truss or Sunak achieve for the same group?
Good idea Liz.
I will Vote for Truss 🤔 - for the Bush Tucker Trial 😂
I am getting beyond despair because everything political looks so dismal.
And cannot see anyone or anything that can stop this country’s deterioration.
I don’t think it’s depression because when I’m out in nature etc. I feel so good about life.
Maybe going off grid is a better alternative lifestyle
Honestly, how can someone be so thick and not understand that they're thick after seeing the result of their getting their own way.