The Liz Truss Clusterf*ck
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 4 September 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Ok, resign yourself to it - Liz Truss is going to be our prime minister. Is she going to bomb at the outset? What do the public think of her? Will she get a honeymoon? What’s she planning?
We are joined by Opinium pollster Chris Curtis and Byline Tomes’ Adam Bienkov.
Plus - Labour’s internal election results are announced last week. Is it all over for the Labour left - or does it have a future? We are joined by newly elected NEC member Jess Barnard.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the show. Liz Truss is about to become your prime minister, |
| 0:13.5 | imminently in fact. That's right. She's the prime, she's going to be the prime minister |
| 0:17.0 | of the whole country. We're not in Dallas. You're not going to wake up. It is an all a dream. |
| 0:24.2 | Liz Truss is about to become the leader of the United Kingdom. I don't quite understand |
| 0:31.8 | still how we ended up here. I think if you've been in a coma for the last three years, you'd |
| 0:35.4 | find the events that have enveloped the country rather puzzling, but we are where we are. |
| 0:41.2 | Now we've got a special show today to talk about. I mean, just to know myself, is Liz Truss |
| 0:47.2 | just going to implode quite quickly? And I say that because actually, you know, |
| 0:53.6 | a lot of people when, you know, a new politician comes on the scene, rises to prominence. I mean, |
| 0:58.8 | she's been, obviously, promised actually a while, but she becomes prime minister. People think, |
| 1:01.6 | well, she might surprise people. She may well, you know, she's got, maybe she's tough. She's got |
| 1:06.7 | steel. She'll face down her critics, Margaret Thatcher. People wrote her off when she became |
| 1:12.2 | leader of the Conservative Party. I mean, I get that, but there's something truly bizarre about |
| 1:16.8 | the Liz Truss phenomenon, if we call it that, which I do want to talk about. So I want to talk |
| 1:20.6 | about what the polling says now. I wonder how much the British public have really engaged with |
| 1:24.8 | the Conservative Party leadership contest. I actually think a lot of people have switched off and |
| 1:28.5 | not really engaged. It's been a very introspective, very inward looking leadership contest where |
| 1:33.2 | people are a lot of the discussion predictably, of course, gone to that current favourite past time |
| 1:39.1 | of British political and media commentary, which is baiting trans people. And going on about |
| 1:44.1 | abolishing speed limits in motorways, not really engaging with the massive social calamity, |
| 1:48.7 | which is about to develop the country as things stand. Now, nonetheless, what does the polling |
| 1:54.8 | currently say? And in terms of the positioning she's taking, because she represents a very |
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