{"id":177482,"date":"2025-12-06T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177482\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:03:09","slug":"the-liz-truss-show-review-hapless-ravings-from-a-cupboard-liz-truss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177482\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liz Truss Show review \u2013 hapless ravings from a cupboard | Liz Truss"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the lead-up to the launch of The Liz Truss<\/a> Show \u2013 the hot new YouTube series from Britain\u2019s shortest-serving prime minister \u2013 one phrase was repeated time and time again: \u201cThey tried to silence her.\u201d Turns out they didn\u2019t need to, because Truss was perfectly capable of doing that herself.<\/p>\n

Episode 1, she tweeted, would be available on Friday at 6pm. Except, on Friday at 6pm, it was nowhere to be seen. By 6.05, with still no sign of it, her faithful began to grow itchy. \u201cWhere\u2019s your show?\u201d they tweeted at her. A few more minutes passed. \u201cFFS Liz get your act together,\u201d sighed another.<\/p>\n

By 6.20 it was starting to look like Truss had as much grasp of YouTube\u2019s upload procedure as she did of the British economy. Two minutes later, someone else tweeted: \u201cCould this be the Deep State in action?\u201d and I honestly cannot tell you if it was a joke.<\/p>\n

But then, miracle of miracles, The Liz Truss Show finally appeared. At 7pm. Presumably because Liz Truss still hasn\u2019t worked out how to change her clocks back from British summer time.<\/p>\n

So, an inauspicious start. But at least it was immediately followed by one of the most barking mad opening monologues in recent memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019d have to be watching the fake news BBC to not know that Britain is going to hell in a handcart,\u201d Truss began, sitting in what appeared to be a cupboard furnished with the sort of books that pubs buy by the metre.<\/p>\n

The theme of the monologue was clear: Britain is in desperate trouble. \u201cSmall businesses are dying. Big businesses are leaving \u2026 people are having to pull their own teeth out,\u201d she groaned.<\/p>\n

We live in a crime-ridden, socialist, Islamist dystopia. If they made Yes Minister today, she said, Humphrey Appleby would be \u201ca radicalised trans activist\u201d. Worse still, the British people don\u2019t realise this because the media, with their \u201cGail\u2019s bakeries and gated residences\u201d, refuse to tell them the truth.<\/p>\n

At this point it became painfully clear what The Liz Truss Show actually is. Blanked in her own country to such an extent that ITV Racing didn\u2019t even recognise her last time she went to Goodwood, Truss is now pinning her future on being embraced by the American right<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her opening monologue was nothing more than a laundry list of Maga stereotypes about the British. The woman longs to become Donald Trump\u2019s Lord Haw-Haw<\/a>, or at least a version of Lord Haw-Haw who looked and sounded like a bucket of spanners had just dropped on his head.<\/p>\n

Monologue done, Truss started to interview her guests. The first was Matt Goodwin, billed as \u201cBritain\u2019s No 1 Substack\u201d. We\u2019ll have to assume he was there because, for an abnormally long amount of time, the camera never left Truss\u2019s face.<\/p>\n

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At one point, as soon as Goodwin started talking, the camera lingered on her for a full 40 seconds. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever spent 40 seconds looking at Liz Truss wordlessly blinking and gulping, but it\u2019s a genuinely disturbing sight. I wouldn\u2019t wish it on anybody.<\/p>\n

After a brief chat with a second guest \u2013 a podcaster in a \u201cFREEDOM\u201d T-shirt \u2013 it was on to the former Brexit party MEP Alex Phillips, who inevitably frothed on about immigration.<\/p>\n

The most notable thing about her interview was how it ended, cutting off abruptly just as she started along a dodgy road about how to \u201cencourage\u201d legal migrants to leave the UK. Whatever could have happened? Did she say something that was beyond the pale, or was it that darn Deep State silencing her again? We may never know.<\/p>\n

To think, this whole endeavour exists purely because Liz Truss wants America to love her, even though the only thing that America knows about her is that she held her own book upside down on Fox News once<\/a>. And so she\u2019s resigned to this, ranting in a shoebox on the internet, like the first person to die in a disaster film. It\u2019d be tragic if it wasn\u2019t so deeply stupid.<\/p>\n

Episode 2 of The Liz Truss Show will be aired next Friday at 6pm. That is, assuming that Liz Truss has figured out how clocks work before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the lead-up to the launch of The Liz Truss Show \u2013 the hot new YouTube series from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-177482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}