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The Owen Jones Podcast

New Poll: Liz Truss Nearly As Unpopular As Putin

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

As a new poll shows that Liz Truss is almost as unpopular with British citizens as Vladimir Putin, her 'apology' should be treated with the contempt it deserves. But don't let the Tories get away with blaming all this on her: this was a team effort, and now they all have to pay.


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0:00.0

So, today we're on another Jamie Vine show with Amwida Kim, always a pleasure, never a chore,

0:04.0

and a new poll reveals just how catastrophically unpopular Liz Trusses, despite her frankly

0:09.4

pathetic attempt at an apology. It's her badly delivered apology going to pay for people's

0:14.2

increased mortgage bills. Is her badly delivered sorry going to pay people's increased rents?

0:19.2

People forget about private renters because the mortgage hike will be passed on to them as well.

0:23.4

Is it going to pay for their £5,000 a year energy bills? Now that's been scaled back as well.

0:28.4

Is it going to pay for the shredded public services, which are now going to have Jeremy Hunt's

0:32.8

scalpel applied to them after 12 years of slashing burnt cuts? Look, there's a reason that,

0:37.2

according to Eugul's latest polling, Liz Trusses net approval rating is nearly the same in this

0:42.4

country as Vladimir Putin. She's on minus 70. He's on minus 70. Is it minus? It was minus 47 last

0:48.4

time I looked. She's now on minus 70. He's Vladimir Putin's on minus 74. But do you know what?

0:54.3

I'm going to defend Liz Truss, and that might sound a bit odd, given what I just said.

0:57.6

Because I know what the toys are going to do. They're going to do what they do with Theresa May.

1:01.0

They're going to keep her in place, let her take all of the political

1:04.7

trappinal thrown her way, absorb it, and then dispose of her as soon as they think there's

1:10.3

an opportune moment, and then go, it was all her fault, hey presto. And do you know what? This is

1:14.6

on all of them. Jeremy Hunt, and that'll presented us on Elder Statesman, the grown-up in the room,

1:19.1

who left the NHS under-prepared for the pandemic with broke-task stab shortages,

1:23.6

and who celebrated austerity as the genius of David Cameron Osborne. Of course,

1:27.5

he wants to cut more back. And coming on this, and doesn't agree.

1:30.8

Go on, no, no, you've gone. Rishi Senak, Rishi Senak, who boasted in the leadership

1:35.6

campaign of taking from poorer communities to give them to richer communities. Look,

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