Former adviser to Liz Truss spills all from the quick start to the abrupt end

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  • Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
  • “She had an exact vision and a master plan in her head.”
    Former advisor to Liz Truss Asa Bennett explains how everything was done to prevent her from giving her first speech as prime minister in the rain.
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Комментарии • 171

  • @PassiveAgressive319
    @PassiveAgressive319 27 дней назад +42

    So he was one of the sycophants that refused to tell her that she was making a huge mistake. Gottit👍

    • @TheElDoctoro24
      @TheElDoctoro24 24 дня назад +4

      Just another yes man and all politicians are full of it

  • @ivanotoole26
    @ivanotoole26 24 дня назад +18

    Printers - Check
    Croissants - Check
    30bn hit to the economy - check

  • @cavalstone8463
    @cavalstone8463 27 дней назад +28

    So smug. So, so smug.

  • @ds6914
    @ds6914 27 дней назад +88

    this man should not be involved in running the country

    • @chrispalmer7893
      @chrispalmer7893 27 дней назад +13

      He's got the same dead-eyed stare you see on Trump advisers like Stephen Miller.

    • @Paul-md8de
      @Paul-md8de 27 дней назад +3

      Or any other country.

    • @houldenc22
      @houldenc22 27 дней назад +1

      He definitely won't be this time next week

    • @johnmartin7158
      @johnmartin7158 27 дней назад +5

      Sir Keir will have a new broom.

    • @patrickyorke3028
      @patrickyorke3028 26 дней назад +1

      ​@@chrispalmer7893 You are right, I see the similarity.

  • @pgs1796
    @pgs1796 27 дней назад +55

    Why would anyone own up to be an adviser to Liz Truss? Who would want that debacle on their CV.

    • @airingcupboard
      @airingcupboard 27 дней назад +5

      That one would be filed under 'sabbatical'.

    • @syedadeelhussain2691
      @syedadeelhussain2691 27 дней назад +2

      hahaha 🤣

    • @TheLucanicLord
      @TheLucanicLord 26 дней назад +3

      So what did you do between these dates?
      _Er, I was in prison_
      Could be worse, you could have worked for Liz Truss.

  • @l33jcm
    @l33jcm 27 дней назад +21

    It'd be funny, if it wasn't so serious! And she still thinks she's doing nothing wrong, that it's the fault of everyone else! Delusional!

    • @Veyron1967
      @Veyron1967 26 дней назад

      Well that's one way of looking at it, I have a darker slant: Whether you agreed with Truss or not, the establishment globalists performed a coup d'etat on a British Prime Minister - and nobody batted an eyelid.

  • @user-du3nx4kp6o
    @user-du3nx4kp6o 25 дней назад +12

    The fact that this man is called ‘Acer’….. why?
    Why is he so smug and pleased with himself? What an appalling claim to fame…. He is discussing it like it was all a jolly jape and not one of the largest political and economic fiascos in British history. He should never work in politics again.

  • @DisleyDavid
    @DisleyDavid 27 дней назад +85

    Liz Truss had a speech writer? I assumed she made it up as she went along.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 27 дней назад

      Former adviser to Liz Truss spills all from the quick start to the abrupt end 1455pm 28.6.24 winging it. might as well.... tunnels as well... cool.

    • @jacob2808
      @jacob2808 27 дней назад +4

      Pork markets

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 27 дней назад

      @@jacob2808 one has the meat in it one doesn't.....

    • @airingcupboard
      @airingcupboard 27 дней назад +2

      No, apparently he was responsible for it sounding like casual uninformed drivel. Who knew?

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 27 дней назад

      @@airingcupboard Comments on ‘Former adviser to Liz Truss spills all from the quick start to the abrupt end’ 0022am 29.6.24 i'd be heartbroken to note my wife or bird had seen my jibber jabber as "casual uninformed drivel".... i mean, with that kindda attitude would see her well studied and considered personally composed wedding vows seen in a similar offhand manner...

  • @kiriakoz
    @kiriakoz 27 дней назад +19

    This video was almost as long as her tenure... and his speech writing stint.

  • @cplhpilot
    @cplhpilot 27 дней назад +11

    This guy should be nowhere near an interview, never mind government....

  • @victoraikhionbare3594
    @victoraikhionbare3594 27 дней назад +57

    Classic yes man. Defending the indefensible. Even stevie wonder could see Truss's incompetence

  • @jamiec4000
    @jamiec4000 27 дней назад +8

    So glad Liz got the right binder. Disaster averted.

  • @user-xe4xp9tt6m
    @user-xe4xp9tt6m 27 дней назад +23

    what is wrong with him? I would be under a rock hoping no one finds me if I were him

    • @SirAntoniousBlock
      @SirAntoniousBlock 19 дней назад

      😂 He should hope that when he dies and is buried it is in secret, so the grave is not desecrated.

  • @greymouser8659
    @greymouser8659 26 дней назад +4

    She had a speech writer!!? 'Pork Markets'

    • @psychiatricunit
      @psychiatricunit 22 дня назад

      Cheese imports too. ‘That is a disgrace! ‘ What a twonk.

  • @Bioplast6
    @Bioplast6 27 дней назад +8

    Liz's 15 mins of fame.......recounted in real time.

  • @MrGavinBoyd
    @MrGavinBoyd 27 дней назад +56

    Worst government of my lifetime.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 27 дней назад +1

      Former adviser to Liz Truss spills all from the quick start to the abrupt end 1455pm 28.6.24 probably the only government of your lifetime... after spilling the beans she later found an old bike in the bath...

    • @skurge101
      @skurge101 27 дней назад +4

      And that despite the fact that the last ten years has provided some pretty stiff competition for such an 'accolade'!

    • @johnmartin7158
      @johnmartin7158 27 дней назад +4

      Nothing comes close. Liz Truss a clear winner.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 27 дней назад +2

      Comments on ‘Former adviser to Liz Truss spills all from the quick start to the abrupt end’ 1927pm 28.6.24 dunno who she reminds me of... probably a steel wroker or sommat....

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 27 дней назад +1

      You weren’t around in the 70s

  • @gerryman4589
    @gerryman4589 27 дней назад +7

    I think we have a lot to thank Liz truss for but for her wise policy's we could be looking at another 5 years of that shower we'll done liz😂😂😂😂

  • @IRE59
    @IRE59 27 дней назад +29

    Everything is explained, if thats the quality of people around her ,

  • @stewartohara
    @stewartohara 25 дней назад +3

    If only they put as much thought into her plan for governing… 🤦‍♂️

  • @richardboyce4635
    @richardboyce4635 27 дней назад +6

    Reminds me of the Kenny Everett character Cupid Stunt

  • @dingbell5498
    @dingbell5498 27 дней назад +37

    A video about stupidity?

  • @geofo60
    @geofo60 27 дней назад +4

    Is this supposed to be news worthy ?

  • @indigofoxtrot5111
    @indigofoxtrot5111 27 дней назад +27

    How anyone in their right mind can admit to being an "adviser to Liz Truss", without torture, is beyond me.

    • @houldenc22
      @houldenc22 27 дней назад

      Let's face it it's that Tory scum's claim to fame.
      I'm sure he will spend the rest of his life boring people to tears about it

    • @Boghopper9999
      @Boghopper9999 27 дней назад +2

      Angling for a job with 55 Tufton Street would be my best guess

  • @dapfordvondappington8306
    @dapfordvondappington8306 27 дней назад +4

    More thought went into the binder for the first speech than the economic policy.

  • @patrickodonnell4271
    @patrickodonnell4271 27 дней назад +2

    "Everything was nailed down to a tee" when it came to who sat where, how many printers they needed, who gave her the coffee. When it came to doing a budget it was all a bit more slapdash.

  • @FranzBieberkopf
    @FranzBieberkopf 21 день назад +2

    Considering this guy advised the Lettuce-by far the most disastrous PM in our history (even Neville Chamberlain didn't totally tank the economy)- it would be nice if he took some responsibility for the disaster

  • @nickinman6025
    @nickinman6025 27 дней назад +12

    100% on the psychopathic scale... Even now she has no idea what other people think or feel about her.

  • @brigidann23
    @brigidann23 27 дней назад +3

    Well, it's nice to know that Whitehall swooped in right away to make sure Liz had the right coffee in her hand in the morning and the right Prêt sandwich at lunch... Doesn't it make you feel proud?

  • @davedraycott5779
    @davedraycott5779 27 дней назад +12

    ‘Not one but two mobile printers in case one broke down’ response ‘wow’. That sums up this video. At which point I switched off.

  • @markr002
    @markr002 24 дня назад +3

    Zero self awareness. He had the ideal boss for him.

  • @ΑΣΔΦΓΗΞΚΛ
    @ΑΣΔΦΓΗΞΚΛ 27 дней назад +14

    Product of nepotistic privilege

  • @danremenyi1179
    @danremenyi1179 22 дня назад +2

    This is brilliant at showing the shallowness of the Tory party.

  • @JacarandaMusic
    @JacarandaMusic 27 дней назад +24

    Is this the chief lettuce?

    • @hypsyzygy506
      @hypsyzygy506 27 дней назад +1

      No.
      I think he's one of the Little Gems.

    • @airingcupboard
      @airingcupboard 27 дней назад +3

      The dressing.

    • @paulitoLdn
      @paulitoLdn 27 дней назад +2

      No. He's just one of the vegetables

  • @conorw077
    @conorw077 27 дней назад +3

    Christ, that was dull.

  • @roncarroll1518
    @roncarroll1518 27 дней назад +2

    Pity Liz Truss and her team concentrated on the sizzle and forgot about the steak.

  • @TheElDoctoro24
    @TheElDoctoro24 24 дня назад +1

    I wouldn’t advertise that I wrote Lettuce speeches

  • @mikesmith5139
    @mikesmith5139 27 дней назад +23

    What an utterly apalling Tory apologist. Good to know that all they are worried about is office stationary. All this while the country burns. This is absolutely the worst 14 years of of government in my 60 years. The best years were undoubtedly under Blair & Brown's Labour government from 1997 to 2010. The collapse due to the vandalism of Tory austerity since then is shocking to the core. All I can say is Tories Out.

  • @JoeWedgwood-ik9zo
    @JoeWedgwood-ik9zo 27 дней назад +10

    He looks about as smart as he sounds…

  • @davidorr-ewing4437
    @davidorr-ewing4437 27 дней назад +1

    😂. Did he write the cheese speech.

  • @davidriggs1470
    @davidriggs1470 27 дней назад +2

    F### me is this what passes as credible government,he should be stacking shelves,sorry shelf stackers!!!!!!

  • @pilch101
    @pilch101 27 дней назад +2

    "Cracking sandwiches, love the new stationary...right, down to business... How do we f#*k the economy!?"

  • @jacob2808
    @jacob2808 27 дней назад +3

    Blair light on policy? This guy has no clue

  • @spookyt8692
    @spookyt8692 27 дней назад +5

    Tory filth.

  • @yamadakenji4143
    @yamadakenji4143 23 дня назад +1

    What a toff and self-absorbed person. The perfect speech writer for Truss

  • @ZIGSVIDS
    @ZIGSVIDS 26 дней назад +2

    How far up himself is this guy....

  • @TheLucanicLord
    @TheLucanicLord 26 дней назад +1

    Got to admire him. If I'd been an advisor to Twuss I wouldn't show my face in public.

  • @martinahardaker8739
    @martinahardaker8739 24 дня назад +2

    Didn't do so bad...think 6 minutes or so...'snot that I'm allergic to waffle or anything...just 5/6 minutes is my limit..

  • @garethjones6566
    @garethjones6566 27 дней назад +1

    Never trust a tory and an estate agent....

  • @charlesabboud1613
    @charlesabboud1613 27 дней назад +13

    Chorley: “That doesn’t sound like the deep state brought her down if they were bringing her favourite tea and favourite baguette”
    Speechwriter guy : “That’s an interesting question!”
    It wasn’t a question…

    • @arctic_haze
      @arctic_haze 16 дней назад

      We all know it was the leftist bank owners 😂

  • @peterjones6734
    @peterjones6734 25 дней назад +2

    What a windbag 😢

  • @Alone47
    @Alone47 27 дней назад +8

    That smug stupidity he exudes is frightening.

  • @brotherbuzz1070
    @brotherbuzz1070 25 дней назад +3

    God Asa is smug, isn't he?

  • @TheBlightspawn
    @TheBlightspawn 12 дней назад

    Did he confuse Hainault with Northolt? 😂

  • @user-hh8hv6on1o
    @user-hh8hv6on1o 27 дней назад +1

    God what a melt.

  • @owencarlstrand1945
    @owencarlstrand1945 27 дней назад +1

    Rearrange these words into a well known phrase or saying. Whelk manage couldn't a stall.

  • @michaelshepherd2496
    @michaelshepherd2496 27 дней назад +1

    Seems very excited and proud to have seen behind the scenes, good for him. Shame his boss cost me and my family £500 per month extra on our mortgage, but yeah very exciting little jape for this absolutely salad.

  • @Reedster1974
    @Reedster1974 26 дней назад

    Can you please put the word Adviser in “” please 😳

  • @Joe-og6br
    @Joe-og6br 27 дней назад +1

    Lettuce Speech Writer

  • @wardyra
    @wardyra 24 дня назад +2

    This guy is just slimy. I can't watch this.

  • @markherzog9484
    @markherzog9484 26 дней назад +1

    A man clearly has never done a days real work in his life………

  • @markherzog9484
    @markherzog9484 26 дней назад

    They flew into Hainault? Then says he checked the speech for typos? No wonder chaos ensued, perhaps if they flew to Northolt instead…..🤔

  • @jolewis-brown6608
    @jolewis-brown6608 26 дней назад +1

    Cringeworthy

  • @tapaarn5863
    @tapaarn5863 27 дней назад

    How many copies of her book were sold: about 3,000 I read somewhere. 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @mickeysmouse4800
      @mickeysmouse4800 27 дней назад

      Who the f bought that?! I bet it was virtually unreadable too!

  • @simonscott1000
    @simonscott1000 19 дней назад

    I'm sure his mum is very proud of him.🏅

  • @briansteele2723
    @briansteele2723 27 дней назад +1

    All this faffing around costs us money and to know it was wasted on the fickle and reckless Truss is just tedious and annoying, rather than being interesting

  • @YouTubemessedupmyhandle
    @YouTubemessedupmyhandle День назад

    ‘Speechwriter to Liz Truss’ is about as pointless a task as ‘Quantum Mechanics teacher to a Labrador’.

  • @cripysmooth6092
    @cripysmooth6092 27 дней назад +10

    This chap has no idea how silly he looks, smiling and laughing after Lizz Tuss almost bankrupted the UK. Literally no idea....It all makes sense now. 😳😳😳😳

  • @Pooter-it4yg
    @Pooter-it4yg 16 дней назад +1

    Truss spent her entire time in Cabinet being looked down upon for the damn good reason that her ideas were preposterous and driven by self belief rather than experience or knowledge. One can only presume that Cameron, May and Johnson kept her on as a sop to a certain wing of the party. To varying degrees they let the civil servants take the brunt of her asininity and it's no coincidence that one of her top priorities was to gut their involvement like a vindictive child. The contempt was mutual especially because whatever her Cabinet post she never bothered to more than skim her briefs - but was quite happy to stand in front of flags and take the OBE credit (other bggrs efforts). The world's full of fools who think they're visionaries. But the detail of working out where all her teddy bears were going to sit and what they were all going to have for elevensies just sums up this ridiculous woman. Scratch that, little girl, because she plainly never grew up.
    There was one incident when she was, laughably and thankfully briefly, rotated to Foreign Sec. Her own interpreter embarrassingly had to correct her on the location of a major city in southern Russia that was relevant to her very important visit. It was in her brief but on the plane she was too busy preparing to get good pictures in Red Square with a furry hat to read the damn thing.
    As to her demise, it was simple. The bond market (as she presumably doesn't know) dwarfs the stock market and can be thought of as a bank. And the sovereign component of that market (countries issuing debt) dwarfs the rest. She thought "fwee money!" and effectively went to the bank and said "I want to borrow another squillion to buy a fourth house and go on a round the world cruise for 5 years". The collateral she offered amounted to "because I'm gweat". So the bank said "alright, but the interest payments on all your loans will go through the roof". In bond market circles 7% yield marks the point of no return - her party intervened rapidly to avoid the fate of Argentina, Italy and Greece.
    There are ultimately two kinds of people in life - the ones who are primarily good at their jobs and the ones who are primarily good at getting promoted. Truss wormed her way into the parliamentary party (the nauseating Fizz with Liz events) and the membership. That's what got her the leadership. Both have since been greatly chastened for "cut of her gib" thinking. But of course she's such a textbook delusional narcissist that she craves relevance so won't just belt up, go away and stay belted up while living in clover for having done nothing but harm.
    PS Her tenure of 49 days flattered her. It was interrupted by both party conference season and the death of an extremely significant monarch so her active premiership amounted to little more than three weeks. Of appointments, media sparkle, a single mini budget and doomed scrambling to survive. It was a pathetic object lesson in what not to do that she spent her entire political career preparing for.
    PPS I'm a moderate small c conservative but Truss and the current Conservative rabble thoroughly deserved the thrashing they got. If there's to be a viable future for the organised right in this country all they to do for now is take the licks, get back to basic competence and shun the gurning atavism of Farage.

  • @leolion9535
    @leolion9535 27 дней назад

    Its funny that this woman and her buddy Kwasi can commot in Public. It is a horrible 😪 shame 😢😢😢

  • @GavinLawrence747
    @GavinLawrence747 27 дней назад

    People should take from this one important salient : that the Truss/Kwarteng episode, however badly implemented their mini budget was, demonstrated that private creditors, not democratically elected officials, decide on the future of a country.
    I don't think its a good idea for any country to become heavily indebted to private creditors (in this case the best information I could find is that US asset managers hold the majority of gilts...).
    But then again, the British people seem to all want something for nothing - that's why we are in the situation we are in.
    Seriously considering leaving for somewhere that has an aspirational culture and encourages business/investment!

  • @ScruffyTubbles
    @ScruffyTubbles 18 дней назад

    She is well endowed mind ...

  • @petercorbett3794
    @petercorbett3794 27 дней назад +1

    Economics being a delayed-impact sport, thousands of people are about to have their mortgages doubled before polling day. Liz Hernia regarded them as irrelevant cannon-fodder and they probably are, given they all vote Conservative and will still vote Conservative on July 4. They’re the Tory ‘Us-Club’, the sad group that formed around Thatcher when she said ‘yes but are they one of us?’ These people will become destitute and happy in the knowledge they’re in the ‘Us-club’! People talk about Trump’s mega-cons, but the Thatcher con has kept the Tory party afloat for decades and it’s only just wearing off now, 40 years on. Always forward-thinking, they saw this coming and saw Covid as Manna from Heaven, ‘fill your boots comrades it’s going to be a while in the wilderness this time!’

    • @terryyakamoto3488
      @terryyakamoto3488 27 дней назад

      There's a point when you have to stop hand wringing about all the moles that vote for the likes of Thatcher, Bore is, Trump, and sit back and enjoy listening to them whine about the fact they're now poorer. I'm particularly looking forward to Trump abolishing income tax and replacing it with import tariffs, with inflation sky rocketing and chaos ensuing

  • @Hesthedaddy
    @Hesthedaddy 25 дней назад

    I think this guy is more of a do-er than a mover and shaker

  • @shonagiffen4913
    @shonagiffen4913 27 дней назад

    Mad Liz but is she really evil I wonder 🤔add her crazy advisers !

  • @Woodzta
    @Woodzta 27 дней назад

    I don't understand why the commenters here always view things in black and white. It's a little strange if not suspicious. Regardless, I found this an interesting backstage viewpoint.

    • @johnreed8336
      @johnreed8336 21 день назад

      What have you been smoking ?

  • @marvellis6762
    @marvellis6762 27 дней назад

    The Cameron to May to Johnson to Truss to Sunak pandemonium... can never ever ever happen again! In a British democracy. NEVER!!!

    • @scottishbombolini7794
      @scottishbombolini7794 27 дней назад

      You have to ask, just who voted for these charlatans? Predominately voters in England who ' take ' they're que from the Right wing media infecting these Islands. 😔

  • @duckndive.
    @duckndive. 27 дней назад +2

    How can a speech written by an aid begin to let the voters know about commitment, emotion, honesty, and trustworthiness.

  • @maushaus2792
    @maushaus2792 27 дней назад +1

    A lot of nasty irrelevant comments on here.

    • @patrickodonnell4271
      @patrickodonnell4271 27 дней назад +3

      A lot of nasty and relevant comments as well in fairness.

  • @ybkseraph
    @ybkseraph 27 дней назад

    She was a loss of time, and continue to be

  • @JevansUK
    @JevansUK 27 дней назад

    Liz truss the problem of the fusing of huge ambition and tiny ability

  • @craig3420
    @craig3420 27 дней назад

    U can see why truss was a disaster

  • @rodmarker2071
    @rodmarker2071 27 дней назад

    Another Talking Head. All collar and no front
    No wonder the is Fecked.. if this is the calibre of "Advisor" ...
    It's astounding he is more enthusiastic over 2 printers than the mess he made

  • @El_Paracleto
    @El_Paracleto 27 дней назад +1

    Oh, if he 'spills ALL', i guess there's nothing to hide...Thanks for that 'CLARIFICATION'...

  • @michaeljohnbeesley9561
    @michaeljohnbeesley9561 27 дней назад +3

    Asa. Weird name and why all the arm waving?

  • @philjohnson4770
    @philjohnson4770 27 дней назад

    The interviewer is as bad. Two lettuces together. In the Loop in real life. Without the charm.

  • @chrisd924
    @chrisd924 27 дней назад +7

    Everyone associated with Liz Truss's tenure should be banned from British politics for life...

  • @duncannapier318
    @duncannapier318 27 дней назад

    Liz Twuss won the Towie leadership and it’s finally over for the Tories. Vote Weform and take your country back 🇿🇦👍🇿🇦

    • @Boghopper9999
      @Boghopper9999 27 дней назад +2

      No way would I ever vote Weform; I don't vote for Wacists

  • @GordonSmith-nd4oy
    @GordonSmith-nd4oy 27 дней назад +2

    Another failed journalist.

  • @alanedwards8834
    @alanedwards8834 27 дней назад +1

    Really interesting behind the scenes insights. Odd comments from militant commenters on here, but just like their families do, best just ignore them.

  • @ArtsofWellness-o1A
    @ArtsofWellness-o1A 27 дней назад

    Just so sad to see a British former colleague take down a former PM, when the current/outgoing? PM himself is having a challenging time - and the world witnesses the lowest quality Presidential debate in US history, ever.
    What does our Western media feel about this? Where is the British honour, pride, and also respect for any Government leader? Most of us never desire to aspire to such a position, and never, ever, will.
    For those who do: Perhaps it is time for the media to elevate qualities in these courageous fellow human beings as opposed to take them down - we may leave that to our friends, the "deep state", who obviously succeeded in the case of Ms. Truss, failing which they will handpick their own candidates and take them down the path of destruction. We can do better in "the West" 😄

  • @michaelmouse4024
    @michaelmouse4024 22 дня назад

    Truss shows what can be achieved despite being a total psychotic

  • @martinvickers7349
    @martinvickers7349 27 дней назад +1

    My main impression of truss was her absolute incompetence

  • @freevent28
    @freevent28 27 дней назад +1

    This guest was an honest heart speaker. Amazing insight.