Ben Elton has his say on the 'resurgence' of Liz Truss | LBC 

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She's talking about the power of the establishment government machine. Both Left and Right are going to struggle to ever change direction. The system would of destroyed Corbyn.

However some unhinged people can mask it whereas she can’t. She’s a legend in her own mind but no one else’s

She is the UK's version of Kari Lake.

@@evolassunglasses4673 Why are we talking about Corbyn? The man's not had the whip since 2020

Well said 👏 👏

Ian Dale was never a “Journalist”….. he’s far right plant.

Well said 👏👏👏💪💪💪

100%!! It's the platform these liars are given.

Liz Truss is constantly attacked rubbished and ridiculed, so I don't know what you're complaining about.

@@deanrogers8381 Actually the exact opposite as those three have built their own mass media platforms and have become popular - whereas Truss is being given a platform despite not being popular.

​@@deanrogers8381 Novara and Jones have 1.25m subs between them. James' last book sold over 250,000 copies. Cry more, maybe that'll help? lol

@@deanrogers8381 There is no right-wing think-tanks with opaque financial arrangements supporting any of those people you named.

​@@deanrogers8381I'm not much of a fan of those three but they prove their points and refute others WITH EVIDENCE!

When you read the comments to the LBC interviews, they are very negative...The Lettruss is not coming back.

This is why she's a lauded member of the conservatives, those are peak qualities for a conservative, being arrogant and having zero shame is what they look for in a candidate.

Down with the Nat Cs

This is why I find it UTTERLY baffling when people say that "oh they are all the same" or "labour will be just as bad" etc. I get you are disillusioned but come on, these people are utter utter ghouls who will not die. The depressing part of this is how she's obviously funded by dark money and that will get you anywhere. Can you IMAGINE if someone like Corbyn had done half of what she did. We'd never hear the end of it

@royboy She didn't have the chance to do anything. It was the markets and the political establishment that brought her down. Get off the silly bandwagon and do some research!

@@chatham43 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

That permanent smirk tell us she is insane.

It's the eyes, I haven't decided if it's pure evil or pure stupidity. And the jerky, uncoordinated arm non-movements. Something definitely disconnected.

She is certainly sending you around the bend

We used to call these people Harpic because of it's advertising strapline - "Clean round the bend".

Non compos mentis.

@linda Always a first. But can he say something actually funny?

He is a relic from the '80s.. it is the complete opposite of refreshing

@@jeffsimon9594 With you being a relic of the 30's!

@@gerryclarke9795 I am the future 😘

@@jeffsimon9594truth is always refreshing no matter it’s age. That’s why Plato and Aristotle are still fresh 2500 years on

@@jeffsimon9594 ok honesty and integrity out of date , I bet you think echr is out of date aswell ?

I'm Press. Not at national or international level, but Press nonetheless. I despise Liz - truly - but the fact is, her resurgence is relevant and worth reporting on, if only to raise the alarm about someone nuttier than a KP factory busying herself trying to get in with largely but not only American Far Right extremists, which will have a knock-on impact of giving her political cachet with the kind of ageing white English voters who like the Tories' overt cruelty and corruption, but are a bit perturbed by how Brown some of the party's top brass are. Enter Liz, a resurgent great white hope for such voters, ready to say any empty, trite, airheaded thing that will curry favour with the Tory base, and sweep her back into some kind of prominent position again. That's why she's worth covering and reporting on - out of duty, and to raise the alarm, not just sit placidly by and do Nothing about her incremental inching and worming her way back into power over millions of people.

The majority of online content today prioritises divisiveness over truth, relevance, or human interest.

Bravo..! 👍🏻

You are asking if a Tory is capable of feeling shame. At this point, that question can only be asked rhetorically.

No

Shamelessness is a core trait of the post-Boris Johnson Tory Party.

None of them have shame .

she is being payed a lot of money by US billionaires to spout nonsense to the indoctrinated.

Yes, it's a sad fact that all sides of the media give the likes of her and Farage publicity to fill airtime. I'm not big fan of Ben Elton but he is correct that everyone just seems to have accepted the fact that" alternative facts" are treated seriously , it's bizarre , another weird thing seems to be false equivalency, Angela Rayners alleged possible avoidance of 2 grand in tax from ten years ago is all over the place, yet nobody is howling about millions avoided in tax by among others the guy who started the rumour with his ghostwritten book, and the party pointing fingers at her is chock full of fraud and scandal It truly is mind boggling what politics has become.

Why is anyone

AHH the old it's not what we want to hear so we'll ban it brigade. What a bunch of clowns

@@Charlieb6308 no it’s more she tanked the economy and has zero remorse. I think she’s just disrespectful that she refuses to show any sort of apology to the millions of people it affected. Not everyone is a “woke” “ban” brigade. You gammon.

It’s the job of the media to provoke anger and fear in the general population

@paul And you don't have to think for yourself!

@@chatham43: I doubt you have the option of thought. You certainly don't have an original thought. Sorry, not everyone can have charisma.

MPs are not supposed to be ‘interesting to listen to’ They are supposed to do things

Would be hard to do as he lives in Australia

He bores me to death the old bore, Tbh thought he was brown bread

You mean the Lefties?

unfortunately she is useful to those idiots, and can be wheeled out to say absolutely bonkers stuff so they dont have to cop the flack for it.

Same was said about the brexit vote and here we are

Sadly, the majority of people have no common sense. Whatsoever.

Her ideas may be terrible. But I think we ought to question the rather implausible claim that she somehow singlehandedly _"tanked the economy"_ with a proposed budget which never even got implemented. Because I'm pretty sure the Tories are trying to shift the blame for Sunak's failures onto her.

​@roxy806 No it wasn't. Stop making stuff up.

Sadly, this is exactly what is happening in the UK. Let that not be a prophecy of The Lettruss's return.

It's ok, no one gets cancelled. Ricky gervais literally went on stage during one of his recorded Netflix specials and said horrible uniformed nasty things about trans people. When told that his comments were nasty and uninformed, he didn't learn and say sorry. He just lashed out and told the trans community that he knows more about the trans community than they do. He's not been cancelled for this behavior. He still has TV shows, movies, stand up shows and Netflix specials in the works. I can't think of anyone who has been cancelled unless they go full kramer from Seinfeld.

Well said James

@@NeilLewis77 can’t stand Ricky Gervais. I’m ashamed to say we did the same degree course at the same university. We must blame his arrogance on being raised under Thatcherism I think because it certainly didn’t come from UCL

@Day Don't know why James doesn't get off his backside and enter politics..and do something about it!

@@chatham43 that's not how journalism works. He's not a politician and doesn't want to be. He doesn't claim to represent a group of people and he isn't trying to get votes. This idea that people criticizing politicians should instead all become politicians has been going on for ages and it's silly.

Precisely.

Do enlighten us about similarities between then and today ?

@@autoclearanceuk7191 Ok, for example (even further back in time than the Middle Ages). Solon, one of th Greek Tyrants, was having a shave when a little accident happened and his barber hurt him a bit. said barber was apologising profusely, Solon jumped up and ran through Athens to claim somebody had just tried to assassinate him because he was feared by the bad people. He got elected. Fake news...Then: If you read feench Fabliaux, you will find of sorts of satyre againstt a greedy church, or women getting their own back on bad husbands. read the Canterbury tales, Of course the setting of the stories is medieval, but a lot of the way the characters think is very close to us. It is a little difficult to do what would be a whole course in a RU-vid post. And then: Nero was accused of playing the lyra while Rome burnt: not true, but he was hated, and the senate wanted him ou (he was a populist and their privileges were at risk), so they spread a lot of rumours about him, which did result in is assassination. During the Middle Ages, several European dynasties lied about descending from saints etc. The catholic church was selling "indulgences". A nice little book to read. The characters are animals, but the stories are all about human gullibillity: Le roman de renard.

You mean, like mediaeval religious belief systems?

Feeling nauseaus+tory government.

@@annepoitrineau5650 i feel like that every time i see a Labour mp Especially Tax dodging house corruption Raynor , When Sir smarmys on the country falls asleep

Like Ben Elton wow how old has he got

@@millwallholdings unlike the CaTrusstrophe Ben never was daft enough to destabilise the pension system.

he still does it, no comedians have been stopped from being controversial they do it all the time, i can only think that the comploainers have never been to see a controversial comedian live.i could list a number of comedians here and abroad who just say what they think, im talking live but tv is another story

@@vincentvangogh8092 Graham Linehan?

@alex Which you certainly haven't..and why would you?

@@chatham43: You've become predictable in a matter of minutes. Congratulations!😆

Not in this lifetime

It used to be a resigning matter, they now lie with impunity.

It’s down to decent politiceans to win the argument. Even Germany accepts the neo-fascists have a right to make their argument,

It’s a pretty fundamental part of democracy.

Any examples of that in the U.K?

@@Batters56 One which the right wing would have removed. NF LT are dictators in a cr4p disguise.

As Voltaire said: "I disagree with everything you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". This is how you measure a real politician/philosopher/democrat.

I cannot remember any such time! They are everywhere, SNP, Labour, Liberals, Conservatives and don't be deluded by the likes of Ben Elton. Remember he's a comedian and spends his time destructively not constructively.

It's not a trait that psychopaths have.

Just heard that for the first time have you?

@ross You finally got the joke...and thankfully you don't vote.😊

I've heard it alot, I just didn't expect the presenter to say it in that way

Who votes the jokes into power ?

The problem with political jokes is that sometimes they get elected.

I guess the Daily Mail and Daily Express succeeded in rewiring his brain.....

@@beardedbloke2521 Aspirant chief apron washer at local Masonic Lodge.....

I wonder how you two became friends in the first place. Did you go to school, and the shared past created a bond that was unquestionable until...(This is what happened to me)

@@annepoitrineau5650 Knew his mother and grandmother. Mother about my age. He was landlord in a local pub that regularly had live bands on, so friends over mutual interest music wise. He stood as am independent in local council elections a few times before disappearing down a right wing rabbit hole....