Liz Truss is Britain's creepy trainwreck ex. We got together, we thought it was a disaster, she thought it was brilliant. Now a year later, she won't leave us alone and we're wondering if we should call the police.

@tmcd5049

Ай бұрын

💯

@evolassunglasses4673

Ай бұрын

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.

@gerardmackay8909

Ай бұрын

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

@organicwest

Ай бұрын

She is the UK's version of Kari Lake.

@jonathanboam5409

Ай бұрын

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

Journalists like Dale also have a responsibility to not allow lying politicians on their shows for over an hour to spout complete nonsense basically unchallenged.

@nasher906

Ай бұрын

Well said 👏 👏

@user-ou3cq1gk9m

Ай бұрын

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

@amcc5887

Ай бұрын

Well said 👏👏👏💪💪💪

@spjm17

Ай бұрын

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

@clivet3252

Ай бұрын

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

She is not resurging, platforms such as LBC are giving her a platform for no reason. She's not popular or loved but by giving her a platform youre putting her out there for grifters to start idolising her!

@sardendibs

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@segue2ant395

Ай бұрын

​@@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

@hg82met

Ай бұрын

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

@beardedbloke2521

Ай бұрын

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

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

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

Who can possibly think that Liz Truss has any political relevance?

Her arrogance and lack of shame and responsibility is mind numbing,I find it it hard to explain without using expletives

@gusgoodland

Ай бұрын

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.

@missizaskun

Ай бұрын

Down with the Nat Cs

@cubbyhoo

Ай бұрын

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

@chatham43

Ай бұрын

@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!

@cubbyhoo

Ай бұрын

@@chatham43 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Lis Truzz was PM for 46 very chaotic days. Why would anyone pay any attention to that trainwreck after that disaster.

I saw Ben Elton on the feed and listrned to the whole of this and feel much better for doing so. what a lovely, well thought out and measeured interview. we dont hear it enough, but here's to the enlightenment ❤.

Well said Ben 👋👋

@chatham43

Ай бұрын

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

Truss is mad. Quite quite mad.

@user-lo2xi5dr2u

Ай бұрын

That permanent smirk tell us she is insane.

@marklangley7758

Ай бұрын

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.

@jeffsimon9594

Ай бұрын

She is certainly sending you around the bend

@VincentPeters-vs2us

Ай бұрын

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

@richyjay330

Ай бұрын

Non compos mentis.

This was a refreshing interview 👍

@jeffsimon9594

Ай бұрын

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

@gerryclarke9795

Ай бұрын

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

@jeffsimon9594

Ай бұрын

@@gerryclarke9795 I am the future 😘

@minui8758

Ай бұрын

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

@vincehammond1282

Ай бұрын

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

Liz Truss what a failure Has she no shame

@onenote6619

Ай бұрын

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

@TheHOOD-ip7ke

Ай бұрын

No

@nickwalsh527

Ай бұрын

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

@Neilleeds

Ай бұрын

None of them have shame .

@keithscothern3398

Ай бұрын

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

“Resurgence?” I didn’t even know she surged!

Truss' comeback is one of those stories that wouldn't exist if the press didn't report it, but do because it gets clicks and sells papers - it's a bit disingenuous to then interview people about it as if it's a mystery why she's still relevant

@vercoda9997

Ай бұрын

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.

@parabob2359

Ай бұрын

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

@muchopomposo.6394

Ай бұрын

Bravo..! 👍🏻

Thank you Ben

Why is LBC giving that disastrous woman a platform

@kevinwillis6707

Ай бұрын

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.

@Neilleeds

Ай бұрын

Why is anyone

@Charlieb6308

Ай бұрын

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

@liamxlondon

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@gamos6698

Ай бұрын

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

Well said Ben.

Ben Elton. Spot on 👍

Could do with Ben Elton as an MP always interesting to listen to

@chatham43

Ай бұрын

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

@BlueBlazer47

Ай бұрын

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

@paoloc775

Ай бұрын

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

@swordscot

Ай бұрын

Would be hard to do as he lives in Australia

@millwallholdings

Ай бұрын

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

I don’t think anyone with an once of common sense is interested in what Liz Truss thinks.

@LoveProWrestling

Ай бұрын

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.

@roxy806

Ай бұрын

Same was said about the brexit vote and here we are

@tobybaker5187

Ай бұрын

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

@andybrice2711

Ай бұрын

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.

@skymanifest8339

Ай бұрын

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

The issue lies in what James O'Brien describes quite brilliantly in his latest book. The strange symbiotic ecosystem we seem to have developed which enables politicians to lie and promote themselves as arbiters of truth. We need journalists to adhere to stricter principles of journalist rigor and hold these people to account. It is right that we stop cancelling people unless they promote hate and give hate speeches, but we shouldn't give people like Truss an hour of self promotion without challenging her substantively.

@NeilLewis77

Ай бұрын

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.

@pipins3616

Ай бұрын

Well said James

@minui8758

Ай бұрын

@@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

@chatham43

Ай бұрын

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

@NeilLewis77

Ай бұрын

@@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.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum

@richardjoslin2549

Ай бұрын

You mean the Lefties?

Well done Ben. Great piece. Fully agree. 👍🏻

4:14 Well said Ben Elton

"Resurgence" - like a storm overflow spewing raw sewage into a river.

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

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

Ben Elton still calling it correctly after so many years.

Everyone has the right to not go and see a comedian, if they don’t like being offended.

@richardjoslin2549

Ай бұрын

Precisely.

People in the dark Ages or Middle Ages were not as unenlightened as they are famed to be. I am a medievalist, and I have read a lot of medieval texts. Lying, pulling the wool over people's eyes has happened through the ages, most specifically when somebody was attempting to be or being a dictator.

@autoclearanceuk7191

Ай бұрын

Do enlighten us about similarities between then and today ?

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

@@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 KZread 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.

@richardjoslin2549

Ай бұрын

You mean, like mediaeval religious belief systems?

Ben Elton is a really smart guy as well as an outrageously funny guy. Ian Hislop for prime minister but Ben Elton for deputy prime minister, in fact, giv’em a job share!

I think that the answer at the moment lies with investigative journalism. Call politicians out and don’t let them get away with not backing up their arguments with facts

You should read her book. It's written in a way that makes it seem like she was Prime Minister for years. She's quite literally delusional.

@chatham43

Ай бұрын

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

@BlueBlazer47

Ай бұрын

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

@Neilleeds

Ай бұрын

Not in this lifetime

Lovely to hear Ben Elton's clarity after all this time. More of that please

'Feeling uncomfortable' = Watching a Ben Elton musical. 'Feeling unsafe' = Tory government.

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

Feeling nauseaus+tory government.

@millwallholdings

Ай бұрын

@@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

Ben Elton is totally correct in his opinion & a voice of reason.

Can’t wait to see Ben live finally. As always he brings the receipts.

In Delusion and Denial Liz Truss!

@millwallholdings

Ай бұрын

Like Ben Elton wow how old has he got

@RobBCactive

Ай бұрын

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

Well articulated Ben

Nice one Ben Elton. Legend and talks sense. 👍

Ben Elton - great to see him again, could listen to him all day

Ben Elton, absolutely fantastic, and refreshingly informative.

Journos and the media need to do their jobs better. Do not go easy on them. Make it deeply difficult and uncomfortable for them to spout lies as if they are truth. Paxman would have made mincemeat of the likes of Truss.

Elton is a hugely under-appreciated giant of incisive political wit and wisdom

If you went to a Pub Landlord comedy show, you took the risk of him picking you out , and making a joke at your expense.

@vincentvangogh8092

Ай бұрын

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

@harrypainter7472

Ай бұрын

@@vincentvangogh8092 Graham Linehan?

Loved hearing Ben Elton; cogent, reasoned and thought provoking. I will definitely check out his tour schedule.

isnt it strange that Ben, a quite left person like myself, will defend NFs right to spout right wing sh1t3. Wont be reciprocated. The Right, let alone the far right, would have Ben et al, erased from any conversation.

@johnrussell3961

Ай бұрын

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

@Batters56

Ай бұрын

It’s a pretty fundamental part of democracy.

@bordersw1239

Ай бұрын

Any examples of that in the U.K?

@007floppyboy

Ай бұрын

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

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

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.

How does anyone work alongside iain Dale as a colleague, and listen to his fawning and drivel over gormless Truss? She is a space cadet.

Programmes like LBC and hosts like you Andrew are at the heart of the problem, and if you can't see that, then you have proved that point.

Ben Elton - a lifetime of brilliance.

Ben Elton talks so much sense, which is sadly missing in 2024 in the media and on-line!

But the most important factor for populists, charlatans, influencers, etc to be ever in the public eye is the abject failure of journalists to fact-check them, expose their lies and hold them to account. That failure also includes Marr, who loves softball questions and a non-confrontational atmosphere.

Ben, the next time I see you in Aussie I‘d be privileged to shake your hand. Very refreshing. Thank you.

There is something very sick about the Tory party in that it provides an avenue for the mentally disturbed narcissist oddities such as Truss to find a public stage to manifest their delusional picture of their perceived self-importance. While Labour and the Libs occasionally have such miscreants, the Tories have such disastrous headliners almost weekly. The other parties are far from perfect, but for anyone who cares about the future of our nation, democracy, and the progress of our globally interdependent humanity, use your vote wisely, and vote strategically to prevent and/or get rid of any tory candidate - that is the priority for the sake of us all and our shared future.

Wow!, what a story. Living in Australia, but sadly it sounds familiar here. The political people in power make their own rules. But tell us all how we are so bad.

Well said.

As a now ex friend explained it to me "it's ok for them to lie as long as it keeps the likes of you in your place" At the time he was a member of the Torys...... He now thinks they're too left wing and is standing for Reform in local council elections.

@beardedbloke2521

Ай бұрын

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

@simonporter8372

Ай бұрын

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

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

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)

@simonporter8372

Ай бұрын

@@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....

Nailed it.

Spot on

Please dont say theyre defrosting this woman...i hoped shed gone back into cryogenic status.

Excellent everything he said.

Ben Elton is just a national institution....he is a class act....

Can we as a country take out a restraining order against Loopy Liz!😮

What happened to the days when politicians had a sense of shame?

@aero49plane

Ай бұрын

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.

@Debagio

Ай бұрын

It's not a trait that psychopaths have.

Finally, someone talking some sense 👏👍

Amazingly well said.

'Liz Truss the lettuce' haha 😂

@jeffsimon9594

Ай бұрын

Just heard that for the first time have you?

@chatham43

Ай бұрын

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

@rosswilkes7817

Ай бұрын

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

I miss Ben, he was GREAT as Saturday Night Live host. Bring it back, we need it!

Spot on Ben….

Its called 'hypernormalisation' . Adam Curtis coined it quite some time ago now in a doc he made.

Can you trust what politicians say?

One way of improving the quality of political debate would be to make lying in parliament a serious offence with serious consequences. Elected politicians should be setting an example to the electorate, not demonstrating the political benefit of lying through ones teeth with no repercussions.

@normanchristie4524

Ай бұрын

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

well. we're only 40 years behind George Orwell.

Thank goodness people like Ben Elton still have a voice!

If you want to hear a joke, ask a politician. If you want to hear the truth, ask a jester.

@MrJenklns

Ай бұрын

Who votes the jokes into power ?

@kiwitrainguy

22 күн бұрын

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

It was amusing. My sympathy in saying so to those suffering higher interest rates.

Why o why don't we get people like this into parliament

Loving Ben’s Aussie accent 👍

Ben Elton is dreadful- that said he’s right about Truss - the woman is delusional, and needs locking up. It’s a disgrace

The fact that these people just won't go away is frightening.

Ben. Class act 👌

You improve the conversation with quality journalism, something which is sadly difficult to find these days…

Well done Ben .

Excellent

Brilliant! Bring back the Enlightenment.

I'm sure that the fact that Ben Elton doesn't court the spotlight shows a healthy dislike of celebrity culture etc, but we need to hear more from Elton.

Ben Elton, where have you BEEN !?!?

Ben Elton hasn't got any answers - this is "I hope a generation of politicians will come up that don't do this stuff" - really? How is that going to work when the last decades have proved how "this stuff" actually works, at least so far as winning power. Still, I'd rather listen to him promote his tour than Liz Truss promote her book.

I wouldn't call myself Ben Elton's no. 1 fan, but here he is brilliant.

Spot on Ben Elton

Truss is to politics what Ben Elton is to comedy.

Absolutely spot on

He was the one who invented insulting people

The utter nonsense completely nailed . Thank you , Ben .

What a great orator Ben well said on every point raised

People knew their was a climate issue when even the young said, 'it's not like it was when I was a kid', Stark, sometime years ago. Now, the Great Barrier reef is bleaching 18 feet deeper than previously. Truss is not he only thing utterly depressing

Ben should be a presenter on LBC. He wud fit in perfectly.

Love this guy

Ben has nailed it Post-truth is a return to the dark ages..

I might try and get tickets for Elton on tour. I enjoyed going to see him a few years back

More Ben Elton yes

More Ben Elton please

I think it was me that once said “I seek offence, therefore, I am offended.”