Car crash Liz Truss BBC interview tonight

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Did anybody see it?
It was really cringe-worthy

She said 'deliver' about 230 times and blinked about 200 times a minute

She also said she's staying and is planning on leading the Tories into the next election! 😱

After this interview I have shelved the pity I was feeling for her. If I had done what she has I'd be leaving the country, changing my name and considering plastic surgery. She's certainly got a brass neck!

I don't understand why people feel pity anyway, Sunak told her what would happen if she did her budget, she ignored every sane economist on the planet.

She's a wilful arrogant twat. She's not going to change.

Sounds like she could be gone this week, if the Tories can get themselves organised.

I don't know what happy drugs she'd taken before appearing in the Commons, but she simpered all the way thru Hunt's demolition of her mini budget

I thought she might've had some sort of breakdown and they stuffed her with happy pills to get through the day. She had the look of someone drugged out of reality.

Quite a lot of comment on Twitter tonight that she looked sedated in HoC. And we seem to have Hunt and Mordaunt as co PMs but without another leadership election 🙄

She did look sedated in the HoC but the BBC interview looked to be today and she seemed her usual self in it. Confusing

I felt pity because I know I'd be devastated if I had caused what she has. But she's clearly not devastated at all. What a psychopath

What the fuck was all that blinking? It was such a weird combo- looking like she was holding back tears while sounding like a robot.

She needs to go asap.

I know I'd be devastated if I had caused what she has. But she's clearly not devastated at all. What a psychopath

I think she’s just a typical politician. None of them ever really admit they got it wrong. An apology is usually along the lines of ‘sorry the country wasn’t ready for our innovative plans’.

I think she’s just a typical politician.

Whatever you thought of Blair and Brown, we had 13 years of stable, competent government. The decade since has seemed like a nightmare by comparison.

I think she will resign on ill health grounds

I assumed the blinking was just stress.
She needs to go. Or the Conservatives need to get behind her.
The current situation is untenable.

@donquixotedelamancha

You think what Brown did with the gold reserves was competent?

I thought today there's something seriously wrong with the woman. She looked like she was sedated, I agree, and then in that interview she said she has apologised but was just doing what needed to he done in the circumstances. What circumstances? Ones she has created with her crazy actions.

I suspect she will step down on health grounds as pp suggested.

And the issue with Brown and the gold reserves wasn't so much that he did it but that it was leaked and the market went through the floor as a consequence.

And frankly it's nothing compared to the nightmare money wasting this government have done.

She definitely looked drugged up, either that or she has been on uppers & it coming down off them. She has Togo & quickly.

The bigger issue (long term) is removing Tory members ability to dictate leadership. The country can’t endure a repeat of this charade, it was madness that such a skewered small minority was able to force poor choices on the general population

I used to vote Tory. I met her and can't stand her. She genuinely doesn't care about people at all. I think she prefers ideas and principles to reality and people.

I don't think she is a typical politician at all. We have middle ground politicians - they come from right and left - who are economically orthodox. Then we have fringe left, who deny economic reality. Then we have a bigger group who are fringe right, which includes Truss, who also ignore economic reality.

A normal politician could never have done what Truss did. We desperately need to get back to orthodox politics. Brexit was unorthodox, although it was popular it was always going to cause depend long term economic damage. Theresa May was orthodox which is why she said 'Brexit means Brexit' which sounded like a riddle but was actually just a statement of reality.

Right wing freak economics is more dangerous than left wing freak economics - because it has more advocates and vested interests are pushing it harder, so it gets more traction currently. Corbyn was opposed by most of the media - Truss' nonsense is just as dangerous but supported by the media at first.

I just watched the interview on morning TV. Absolutely cringe making. Shocking. I dont think I have ever cringed so much. She threw her so called friend Kwasi under the bus to save her own skin in the worst possible way by calling him back from a meeting abroad and sacking him in a most public and humiliating way but it hasn't worked. She deserves to be fired out of a Canon. It's a ghastly spectacle. She'll be gone by the end of the week.
All tory credibility has gone. We need a general election now.⁰

I think those that align themselves with the Tory party now need to accept they have got down to the dregs of the barrel and it's time to change it!

@donquixotedelamancha Brown who not only sold off our gold reserves at the bottom of the market, despite being advised by many, many people not to - I know this as I was working on a trading floor at the time and our head of bullion trading was one of those called to meet with him and plead with him not to.

Then also removed the tax relief on dividends paid to pension funds? Which lead to the death of final salary pension schemes and the development of LDI schemes? That Brown?

Liz Truss is what she is..she hasnt changed... she has always been this dim ...and as we found out dangerous..... we should be blaming the tiny number of the Conservative Party who voted for her and inflicted her on the nation who had no choice in the selection of our Prime Minister!

I heard that when Penny Mordaunt announced LT was detained on urgent business elsewhere what that meant was that Graham Brady, Chair of the 1922 Committee, had gone to see her. If true, it's amazing that things have got so bad in the Tory Party that LT puts a meeting with him ahead of going into the HoC on a day like yesterday. This tweet made me laugh (it's laugh or cry at the moment).

It was her saying "I'm sorry, but I've fixed that now" that annoys me. It isn't fixed, we will be paying for her mistake for years. I'm dreading seeing what cuts are on the way.

It’s been estimated Brown’s tax grab on pensions cost the public £100bn in case people have forgotten.

www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/brown-has-raided-ps100-billion-from-pension-funds-7177626.html?amp