Liz Truss: Unhinged And Shameless
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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You'd think she'd have some shame after crashing the economy, wouldn't you? But Liz Truss has gone to US and given a totally unhinged speech to a right-wing foundation - where she blames lefties for her downfall, and completely rewrites why the West is in such a mess: free market capitalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Are we sure that Liz Truss actually exists? Or maybe she's just some bizarre AI experiment, |
| 0:05.5 | which is drastically spiraled out of control. Now, just a little recap, she lasted 44 days, |
| 0:11.5 | of course, as Prime Minister, the shortest premiership in British history, beating the previous |
| 0:16.4 | record of George Cunningh. He actually died, though, of tuberculosis after Lesson Foreman's |
| 0:22.0 | in office. Her career died because, well, as PM, she crashed the pound, sent Bond Yield's |
| 0:26.7 | skyrocketing, nearly collapsed pension funds, hiked mortgage costs, and left the Tories in a |
| 0:32.8 | state of total implosion. Now, in her desperation, she also fired her chance to check her |
| 0:38.0 | quasi-quarting, who was her best friend, not sure how tight they are these days. All in the service, |
| 0:43.5 | though, of highly virtuous ends, which has slashing taxes on the rich and big business. You might |
| 0:49.1 | think, after all of this, Liz Truss might have some basic respect, and I don't know, enter a witness |
| 0:53.1 | protection scheme, change her name or identity, and flee the country and never be heard of |
| 0:58.0 | or ever again. Now, Liz, though, knew, whatever the opposite of imposter syndrome is, she's got it |
| 1:03.2 | in spades, and rather than get on her hands and knees and grovel for the damage she's done, |
| 1:08.0 | she sees herself as a martyr for a greater noble cause, which is, in practice, |
| 1:13.0 | redistributing wealth from power in favour of the rich. We'll come onto that. And despite having |
| 1:17.2 | turned turfed out of office with lower approval ratings amongst British voters, then Vladimir Putin, |
| 1:23.1 | that is not in exaggeration, incidentally. She sees herself as the ideal spokesperson for this cause, |
| 1:30.1 | and that's only was nothing more than the complete destruction of free market capitalism, |
| 1:34.1 | which is more insecurity and misery to countless numbers of people. I wish there was nothing |
| 1:38.5 | but the best of luck. Now, shall we just speak to the Heritage Foundation in the US? If you don't |
| 1:42.8 | know who they are, oh boy, you're in for a little treat, aren't you? They are hard-wright think tank, |
| 1:48.0 | who are throughout the history, for example, fought against LGBTQ rights, against out-held |
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