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The Gist

Liz Truss, A Bit Of A Dog's Dinner

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister of the UK, and all of England breathes a collective "How did that just bloody happen?" Plus, we'll check in with David Priess, former CIA intelligence briefer and current Publisher of Lawfare about the work of the January 6th Committee. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.6

It's Thursday, October 20th, 2022 from Peach Fish Productions.

0:43.6

It's the Gisdai Mike Pesca, the tenure of Liz Truss, a calamity, the ouster, and inevitability

0:50.6

of the legacy of Force.

0:54.6

I was fascinated by the mechanics of how it all went down.

0:58.4

The proximate cause historians call it, or at least I was told, that's what historians

1:03.6

call it when I studied the Civil War in 7th grade.

1:07.1

We say in instances like this that cabinet ministers were pushed out, but in this case ministers

1:13.6

were literally pushed and shoved and corralled in the houses of parliament.

1:18.8

It's a bit complex, but a vote on fracking, really a vote to bring it up for discussion,

1:24.7

turned into a referendum on Truss herself, a no-confidence vote.

1:29.3

Don't later, they denied it was a no-confidence vote, but then after that they pretty much said

1:33.5

we have no confidence.

1:35.2

But it was a, you're either with us or against us moment.

1:39.1

Not a figurative time to choose sides, to show your position, the members of parliament

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