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!

Well a jovial Tory MP was on channel 4 yesterday cheerfully announced there was no way the government would call a GE because thr Tories would only be left with about 60 MPs.
In his words, it's important to have a strong opposition so they won't do it.

Sure. That ls the reason.

I don’t disagree that Truss needs to go, but to describe Brown as ‘competent’ as a PP has done, is really stretching the truth.

He didn’t crash the economy, did he? He presided over a decade of a stable growing economy in contrast to the entire thing blown to smithereens in just a couple of weeks. Seriously, if you had to choose one …

Yes. Despite the fact the Conservatives have been in power for 12 years. An acknowledgement perhaps that the Conservatives have spent most of their time concentrating on UKIP/Bruges Group/ERG threats.

So many posters remarkably sanguine about the idea we don't have a Prime Minister.

Even now the Conservatives can't find a unity candidate.

Agree with this summery, absolutely. At the Queens funeral when they were sat all in a ghastly row like the ghouls of the most macabre Christmas past nightmare, I thought then that they’d pretty much plummeted in leadership calibre each and every time.

@Blossomtoes he decimated our pensions though, and as a country, we’d have an awful lot more cash if we weren’t spending billions every year propping up pension schemes.

Of course he saved it, that isn't my opinion, check out the foreign press who were impressed by his decisive action. The whole banking system was about to implode until Gordon Brown persuaded western governments to take concerted action. Only the right-wing press in the UK deny.

Right now everyone’s money is safe, everyone’s bank and credit cards are working and continued to work in 2008. We can talk about the problems GB caused and they were many. However, he did not solely cause the melt down of banking systems and he had the intelligence to sort it out, not just for the U.K. but half the western world. LT otoh has single handedly done the opposite. Alone. Had someone not stepped in, we would be bankrupt.

The image Truss projects is disastrous. As well as the diabolical economic mess she has got us into, think how she looks to the rest of the world, blinking and twitching like a scared rabbit. She needs to go. Quickly.

On the interview last night: it was awful, wasn't it? In fact, I am now a little bit in awe of Truss's ability to make things worse every time she opens her mouth.

Every time she speaks, the electorate gets more angry and the markets drop. As they appear to be doing this morning, following last night's interview.

Along with her now-proven ability to leave everyone worse off than when she started. It's really quite a unique set of 'skills' she has.

I don't think blinking and a fixed smile indicate drugs .Imagine how you'd look if you were trying to maintain your equilibrium while also conveying some sense of not being defeated .And keeping that up for an hour with loads of hostile people looking at you and knowing that there are cameras trained on you .

She's hardly going to say "yes ,I'm off out of here as soon as a replacement can be frog marched in ".

She's a hopeless public speaker and interviewee and doesn't seem very bright . But I really don't think she's on anything .

I have no idea why she was elected. What was the rationale behind it? Did those people actually think she could provide massive tax cuts without any funding. It's crazy. Sunak made sense, she was a disaster. No idea who put her forward.

Once more, he didn’t destroy the economy, he didn’t have taxes higher than any since the 1950s and he invested in and improved public services. For a decade. Ten bloody years. Truss has wrecked our economy in ten days.

cansu · Today 07:28

Where was her cabinet? All these cabinet members and her supporters have spent the last week defending these policies. The tory press congratulated her on her mini budget. All these people deserve to have their reputation shredded too.

This ^^

I think she is heavily drugged a lot of the time.

The blank expression, the constant blinking and the repetitive phrases that are completely out of context to what she’s been asked in interviews.

She’s seriously mentally unstable!

Latest attack lines - but Jeremy Corbyn has become but Gordon Brown -desperate whataboutery.

Aside from all the terrible things she's done, I think Truss's biggest weakness is her lack of social skills. Every time Boris did something awful, he would somehow charm his way out of it. Not that I find him charming, but it's clear that some people found that what-ho jolly bluster appealing.

She doesn't come across as having any of the personal qualities people like in a leader - Thatcher's unwavering self-confidence, or Blair's boyish enthusiasm, or Cameron's "I'm an ordinary family man" demeanour. You just can't imagine her inspiring anyone to do her bidding. The fact that she threw her strongest political and personal ally under the bus shows that she is not in any sense a team player. She is basically on her own.

And as @ancientgran said why we are having an "All our yesterdays" moment while Rome is burning?

I think Truss's biggest weakness is her lack of social skills
Spot on @RoyalCorgi .

So true when he was up against the wall with no hope and seemingly no way forward he would bring out a brilliant seemingly ad-hoc speech. Like his eulogy for the Queen - he is an excellent orator but a terrible human being whereas Truss is just the latter.

I love this question (and the way of putting it).

And yet the Conservatives have never reversed it, so presumably they agree.

The human impact of it is horrendous but in purely political terms it's hilarious.

The Tufton Street libertarian arseholes spent 50 years infiltrating and preparing for this moment when they'd create some kind of ultra-right wing paradise and it's all exploded fantastically in about five seconds.

Why? Because people are generally good and don't like to see greed and exploitation used as guiding principles. Truss and co made the mistake of thinking everyone was as craven as them, when in truth not even fricking bankers are quite that devoid of compassion and sense.

There are many pimples on the nation's political bottom - Brexit, immigration etc - they're about to pop and we can get back to sensible, evidence based politics.

Exactly. Talk about desperation. Did I dream that the Tories have been in power for the last 12.5 years?

Quite!!!