Trussterf*ck: Why Liz Truss' Biggest Disasters Are Still To Come
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Liz Truss has already had the most disastrous record of any new British prime minister: after a mini budget which promised a massive raft of tax cuts to the wealthy plunged the economy into turmoil, she's thrown her Chancellor under a bus, u-turned on her policies and appointed Jeremy Hunt. But Hunt is a passionate cheerleader of austerity and has already committed to spending cuts - after years of slash-and-burn economic policies have devastated public services. Is Truss going to survive - and what does a return to cuts mean for Britain's society and economy?
We're joined by New Statesman Senior Editor George Eaton economist and writer James Meadway to talk it all over.
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| 0:18.0 | Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the show. |
| 0:30.5 | British politics, or specifically the conservative party. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm trying to work out if it was a genre of film. |
| 0:35.2 | Which I think at the moment would be kind of like an apocalyptic film, |
| 0:37.9 | like 20 days later, set to a Benny Hill sketch. |
| 0:41.2 | Because it is in one sense, look, you don't have to have a heart stone. |
| 0:45.6 | Conservative party in power for 12 years. |
| 0:47.6 | Because immense incalculable damage to the social fabric of the country. |
| 0:52.8 | And it's finally come crashing down. |
| 0:54.8 | The problem is it's quite a lot of classile damage. |
| 0:56.7 | And by classile damage, I mean you, because obviously the British people have to pay the price. |
| 1:02.2 | Now just before I came on air, I just read it sweet. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm not going to lie, I just had to compose myself. |
| 1:09.9 | I had to take a long deep breath, have a lot of water. |
| 1:14.2 | This one is about Oak Shots, who's a well-connected right-wing political commentator, |
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