Truss Advisor: "We Squandered a Huge Opportunity" (Colin Bloom)

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Colin Bloom was a Government Advisor to Prime Minister Liz Truss. He was previously International Secretary for the Conservative Party and was appointed Government Faith Advisor by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He is the author of the recently released ‘Bloom Review, Does Government do God?’ a deep dive into the state of faith and religious engagement in the UK. Read the review here: https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/independent-faith-engagement-review-call-for-evidence Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	The list trust, whatever, whether people like her or not, was offering a different set of ideas about how the country should be run.
0:37.0	And she actually attempted to put them in place.
0:41.0	Why was she not able to actually stay in power long enough to even see some of those ideas being implemented?
0:47.0	There is a social and economic orthodoxy which exists.
0:51.0	If a government was to dare go against it, they would be closed down pretty quick.
0:58.0	But it did feel a bit strange that we were up against the White House, we were up against the World Bank, the IMF,
1:05.0	Bank of England, the opposition.
1:07.0	There was a huge opposition to everything that she was doing.
1:13.0	When you see this lack of leadership, the lack of spine that we have across all parties, you've got to blame the candidates department.
1:21.0	Where are they finding these people?
1:23.0	A third of our parliamentarians are unemployable.
1:27.0	Where do we find them? They can't run a bath half of them.
1:31.0	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissinger.
1:46.0	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
1:51.0	A fantastic guest today is a recently retired government adviser, he can be honest.
1:56.0	And the author of the Bloom Review, Colin Bloom, welcome to Trigonometry.
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