‘We’ve read it so you don’t have to’: Political experts tear Liz Truss’s book apart 

Agreed

Populist nutcases all confuse global markets with "the deep state"

That would of been far more appropriate title for this ghastly book of her's.

Mind you that would been telling the truth or confessing and Liz doesn't do that.

so you didn't read the book? I did and in it she details how her policies to cut taxes and spending are about to go ahead when suddenly a day or so before - but after they've been announced publicly - the Bank of England crawl out the woodwork to tell her that she can't because they've failed to regulate the pension schemes and if she puts her policies through (which she was voted in for) that the economy would (not could, would) collapse so she can't do that. Where did you hear the 'mini budget' was going to wreck the economy? Wasn't the mainstream media was it? I'm sure giving her just enough rope to hang herself was just an accident and the BoE was blindsided by the policies she's publicly spoke about months in advance just slipped by them and their constant ability to predict the markets couldn't predict any problems until a couple of days before they're set to go through.

You misspelled "ruining".

I would point out that there is blame to go around here, "we" as a nation put the Tories in a position to make that call, yes she was an horrific PM and pretty dreadful human-being but the whole process of how she got there can't be ring-fenced around the Tories, although I could be incorrect they didn't change their leadership rules and in the UK we don't elect a PM.

@@mjc8281 I didn't voty Tory I voted for Corbyn. So my conscience is clear.

The membership not the MPs and the MPs did not like that.

@@thegoat11111The self-congratulatory note of certain comments on this thread (as elsewhere) is discouraging. Since we don’t have a Presidential electoral system, I didn’t “vote Corbyn”, I voted for the local candidate adopted by the Labour Party. Until such time as the Labour Party shifts its policies away from its current “centrist” position I will continue to vote for the Labour candidate endorsed by the national party. I realise that some on the Left would rather spoilt their ballot than compromise their beliefs. I don’t think that’s an effective way of changing the way we live in this country. Feel free to disagree…

Thanks for the info -I wondered where that woman got that information from.I was just about to google her bio

😂😂😂😂😂...brilliant bs from a Truss crony

Intelligence generally is however

@@tatooinefarmboy Plenty of examples that undermine that, my friend, not to mention both science and common sense.

@@tatooinefarmboy The claim was not that she is intelligent but specifically that she's a mathematician and therefore analyzes problems in a certain way.

"The system" should frankly be based on more democratic principles or public popularity. No matter what you think of him, Boris had a 80 seat majority and was pushed out by sad tories despite his popularity. Liz Truss was the preferred candidate among the Tory members over Rishi. She too was pushed out by her party for Rishi and Jeremy Hunt. THAT is not good.

Awww, you're a bit frightened of change, there there.

Boris expelled everyone in the parliamentary party who had some shards of honour. This is why such political incompetents as Liz and Rishi could reach the top.

@@Dimera09 there are two factions in the Tory party, the liberal faction and the rightwing faction

Delusional.

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Maybe she does not have any book. Got whatever she needed from the library.

get it, libertarian/librarian. But she is so ignorant, I posted another comment regarding whether she does have books...

... and a dangerous one.

@@ftumschk...psychotic and deranged springs to mind also...

She's a scapegoat.

A scapegoat in her own narcissistic mind

In fairness that's not uncommon amongst senior politicians of all types.

The 🥬 has better grasp of basic arithmetic than Truss could ever manage in her life time.

Agreed, she holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She'd need to hold at minimum an MA but more likely a doctorate in economics to even be considered an economist. Of course economists aren't exactly mathematicians, but they do need to understand and use mathematics in their work. As is, the best description I can think of for her is 'failed politician'.

@@Auriflamme Mickey Mouse degrees.

Her father is a mathematician. Did you not get the memo where they made it hereditary?

@@beeble2003apolgoies … its going to be hard conversation but then i have to tell my wife that she is an army officer (her father was) :)))) is it only from father to daughter or do i have to look up what my father used to do? :)))))) mathematician 🙄🤣

Crisis, what crisis?

Starmer perfectly exemplifies that statement. A dangerous mix indeed.

@@S-North Starmer doesn't have unlimited ambition, he has extremely limited ambition. So little ambition it's unclear what he would even do with power at this point. And for all his many failings, he's as conventional as anyone could be, not deranged, so the comparison simply cannot begin to function.

​@@S-NorthNice try mate, he was the Attorney General, a very bright guy, orders of magnitude better than the lettuce.

@@S-North Tory lovers are sounding desperate nowadays. Posting pointless sulky resentful school playgound insults in the hope of swaying us to vote for the incompetent grifting corrupt Tories again😂

​@@S-North I'm struggling to see any basis of your statement, just another lazy "they're all as bad as each other" cop out

"Good in (creating) a crisis"

Quite right she created am by her own actions of hubris.

I opt for the latter

Too thick to worry, perhaps?

Psychopaths don’t feel anxiety. They, in fact, thrive in crisis and seek to cause it.

Truss and Kwateng came into politics with the idea they know better. They didn't bother learning how to govern or how to turn their ideas into policy during their time in parliament and as ministers, and when she was PM she acted as a bulldozer trying to force square pegs into circular holes.

This comment made me chuckle in an otherwise bleak day so thank you!

Haha, it turns out that her economic growth plan was the correct plan after all. It was designed to avoid a recession. Instead we've 'somehow' ended up with Sunaks' low to no growth at all 'plan'. Though I'm guessing you're just fine with that.

​@@S-North- lol, ok... try again, yeah?

@@danielcrafter9349 Sunak is a failure, and will be remembered as such.

But is wasn't poor Liz's fault at all. It was all the doing of that nasty Andrew Bailey and the awful OBR. We should all feel heartily sorry for Ms Truss!

​@@S-Northall the tory party are corrupt and a failure and will be remembered as such.

Or perhaps a bold and genuine leader?

@@S-Northno

@@gm9460 In this day and age, and in this new oppressive, post democratic climate, if you are 'being told not to read her book' then perhaps you really really should. I guess your answer will be,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,'no' no doubt.

@@S-North I've heard enough quotes from it by now to realise that it'll only be useful either in a bathroom or to start fires.

@@31Blaize No probs, maybe it really isn't for you. After all, ignorance is a kind of bliss, I guess. I can understand it, in this day and age of spin and obfuscation, it's ok to not want to know what's behind the curtain.

💯. Definitely this rather than the other.

On Amazon right now it's number 1 ...... in Ideologies (literally!)

I guess you would know.

At least "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" is more credible...

Thanks officer!

OR the bargain bin.

He was actually at his lake villa at the time of the fire, some 60 miles away. When he actually returned to Rome, he started directing efforts to clean up. Christian chroniclers gave Nero a lot of bad rap later. For obvious reasons.

​@@marcusott2973So Nero was a better leader than Liz Truss! No arguments on that from me...

True! Sadly, but it is good to make her a laughing stock, although what she did to the country especially after Brexit (and covid) is CRIMINAL! She should be doing community work forever, not in prison where she would be able to chose her own make up….

"allow her to fade into the political oblivion" No. Remind and shame at every opportunity those responsible for inflicting her on us. Lest we and they forget.

It’s better that the electorate are reminded of the horrors the Tory party have inflicted on our country.

For all her badly managing her past position as former Prime Minister UK, causing great hardship, stress/mental health , emotional health , physical illness to the population. Only in her position for 49 days (shortest time being prime minister ), yet she received £115,000 PER ANNUM for life (for ministerial duties), a great meal ticket for life and a painful slap in the face for the population

Cry about it

Thanks 77th Brigade seditionist!

Indeed, and the second one was "off".

If she's even aware, when there is a crisis

Are the crayons any good?

Did she not write it on ETCH A SKETCH?

Very annoying speaking style. Couldn’t stand listening to the drone.

Yeah the guy she supports in America he favours the orange make up he wears. Rhymes with dump

Missus Kwin gave up the ghost after having to entertain that charlatan.

Get brExit done...

@@korolev-musictodriveby6583 The Tories will be brexiting their seats in the Autumn. I reckon a minimum of 220

@@user-po2qb6cm9q - Yes please !

And £30 Billion plus to support the pound and the bond market. So the Tories have wasted an astonishing £125 Billion since 2019 according to The Resolution Foundation. Check their list.

"Jailed" is ridiculous.

I think she had the right idea personally. Look at the country now. The Tories are making a mess of it paying out social security to people who are able to work but won't. This is costing us billions. I am surprised at the Times, a paper I used to read, that they are stooping so low to a kind of cancel culture.

Nonsense

​@@Dimera09- but frankly, a good idea. Boris should be there, too. How they're allowed to damage everyone's lives and get away with it is the ridiculous part

A right bunch of lightweights, indeed.

I dont know where Truss's colleague got 'mathematics' from. She studied philosophy, politics and economics. But she still cant add 2 + 2.

@@CubicSpline7713 No doubt her father gave her a solid grounding in maths, given that he's a professor of pure mathematics. (And he's a professor in the UK sense; not a lecturer or high-school teacher like most so-called "professors" are in the American system.)

@@ftumschk Yes, but she's still NOT a mathematician. My late father had a degree in Chemical Engineering but I don't - and guess what, I don't call myself a Chemical Engineer....

@@ftumschk Just because her father was mathematician that does not make her a good mathematician. Economics is not pure maths either its highly behavioural science. I seriosly doubt she has much comprehension of logic in analytics

@@andrewrice9362 Indeed, but she would have better placed than most to get some top quality home tuition in maths, that's all I'm really saying.

Too many big words.

Are you insane? Two years of lockdown crashed the economy.

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I think there were people in the party desperate for Johnson not to be the worst Prime Minister in history.

She should have stayed with her building bricks...

One of my favourite paraphrase/ misquotes 😅

She is the soldier standing up in the foxhole to see what that strange whistling noise is.

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Sorry but everything I have heard lizz Truss say is Spot on .Why so many people don't have the Best interests of the Country at heart like she does, so i struggle to Understand. Them !

So you think defence is more important than health?

@@maralynmitchell8261 Well said. I agree, she was correct in everything she put forward, even her economic growth plan was the correct plan after all, just as she said and predicted at the time the negative affects to the economy that she warned of, have now come into being.

@@S-North Her stellar tenure in office might indicate otherwise.

@@railworker8058 Haha, you appear to have fallen into the trap. Ever wondered why the establishment ousted her in favour of an absolute vision-less 'yes man'? No, didn't think you had,,,

I suspect she probably thought that Truss was hopeless but if she could be persuaded to take a bit of time before doing things the penny might drop that she was wrong before too much damage was done.

Looked it up. It IS "Nerine".

Jan Ravens is much better.

Truly the one light that emerged from that shadowy era

"Because Liz was not available" 🙂

Fkn annoying smug voice.

Quite. No thought for the late Queen or the Royal Family, just panic about how the death would affect her. To call her narcissistic is an insult to narcissists.

There is new machinery since Blair

@@NewkemG That was machinery for the Government. As far as I know the machinery wasn't for Mr Blair's personal life.

@@adampowell5376 no it is unelected and therefore I democratic powerful decision and law making institutions that , as is usually the case , increased their remit over time and now obstruct the democratic , law making and economic planning processes . Look I’m not agreeing or disagreeing here but I think we can all agree that several wheels seems to be coming loose of late and it’s time for us to focus and take a good hard look at who and what is running our country and what is their agenda a future view .

The machinery is now turbo charged, and heading in the wrong direction at 100 miles per hour.

Because she couldn't

More like "Hold my Château Pétrus", given her pretentiousness and expensive tastes.

Brexit was voted for by majority in a Democratic Referendum Pretty obvious what you are...

Instead of re-pulping the thousands of her unsold books, why not donate them to food banks for burning in log-burners....

But which American and nasty people advised her for this pro 1% anti 99% B.S. ???

I'm sure you missed the part about her cutting taxes on low earners but the boe didn't like that did it

@@user-cl5yt8yt5d low earners don't pay much tax because of the starting thresholds. It would just be more benefit to higher income earners as is usual for Tories...

That's not true low earners do pay more tax now due to income threshold freeze. Liz truss wanted to reduce the threshold tax percentage from 20% to 19%. At least do your research before replying​@@jimbob-robob

Ultimately does it matter about the debt. Doesn’t Japan have higher, but the country seems to work. Cutting debt with austerity is a political decision. Yep growth s the best way to reduce it, if that’s your priority ( to cut it). But does high earners tax cut (unfunded) actually grow the economy? Or do they save more and put more into pensions etc? Agree about tax avoidance etc

@@mikewallace1723 the wealthy and rich invest into assets which makes them unattainable for those lower down. Driving up inequality which is why tax on the rich and more specifically wealthy is essential. Spread more of the money through legislation on CEO vs workers incomes and people lower down can spend more and grow all sectors of the economy not just falsely inflate asset prices.

That isn't at all what he's saying. He's saying that he's surprised she went full throttle with such a disastrous budget so soon.

@@elgee6202 He was saying it affected the mindset of the country. I for one think that's nonsense.

​​​​@@elgee6202 He was definitely being incredibly generous to her, at the very least. This is the same man who wrote a biography of her before she failed, being forced to pivot into marketing it as an Icarus tale because his book launched after she left office. He's also the political editor of The Sun, who are openly flirting with backing her narrative over Sunak. It doesn't take long to find a picture of the two of them cosying up at a ludicrously softball interview for her book, leading to a positive Sun splash which he wrote. So yeah, might want to take him with a bucket of salt

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Well, in theory fridge magnets can do it so I'd give Truss a 1 in 5 chance

No.

Well, she did eat a lot of crayons.....

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Well if according to the infinite monkey theorem that given time a chimpanzee can type the complete works of Shakespeare, then surely ...

Yeh, I thought it very odd and not very impartial having him on to comment on what went on as well, but then this is Times Radio were talking about here.

That’s because it is more human.

To Tories it would be the end of Life, the Universe and Everything....

Lose. Word is that she will be defeated by a turnip.

I'd have thought anyone with Economics at A level would have been able to work that out, too. Indeed, anyone who has ever had to take out a loan should have expected it to happen. Lenders want to see you can afford to borrow. She was doing the equivalent of saying she desperately needed to borrow money to buy a car but telling the lender that, oh, by the way, she was going to spend 95% of her income for the next year on a new frocks, a racehorse, and going on holiday to Bermuda for six weeks.

Agreed

Is that who it is? Saved me a google as he seems as economically illiterate as truss herself

The only pulling out should have been before her conception

That's for the sequel.

You nieve fool.

No - she meant the Labour Party or for that matter anyone who disagreed with her....

Obviously a left-wing, deep state conspiracy

do learn some history, The British Empire ended over 70 years ago

While most of you will be sloshing around in your oversized Boots . Not being able to see the woods for the Trees !

@@maralynmitchell8261 ?

Don't insult domestic cleaners, they are more intelligent than Truss who has never done a real days work in her life.

@@StephanieTihanyi Domestic cleaning wasn't the service I was thinking of her providing.

And swivel eyed loons can’t help being Liz Truss fans

as well as the insane laughter it emits...

She was just a more carême version of the policies that GOT US HERE.

May I recommend the smallest room in the house....for recycling purposes.

Wasn't it 'you have delighted us long enough' (if you mean P and P)? I agree she needs to stop....