Liz Truss Resignation, UK Prime Minister Question Time
Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister of Britain after a tumultuous six-week tenure, marking a record for the shortest term in UK history. Audio from her final Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) features Keir Starmer and other MPs criticizing her economic policies and the "mini-budget" that impacted mortgage rates. Speculation suggests her appointment may have served as a cover for Bank of England maneuvers before her inevitable exit.
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00:00 You lean in this direction. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, October 20th, 2022. This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1496. This is no agenda. Tossing off the trusses and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6 in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're looking for work for Liz Truss here in the valley. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! This morning it was so funny. The emails just start streaming in. Bling bling bling bling! And you know, of course from our British producers.
00:43 right on the ball immediately. And it's here in America, it's stunning news. Well, some absolutely stunning news. The prime minister of Britain, Liz Truss, has resigned. She's been on the job for about six weeks now. Of course, it has been a tumultuous tenure. This might be a record to tell you the truth, but I'll have to sort of ask some historians about this. Stunning! Were you stunned by this news, John? Well, I wasn't. I was expecting she was going to end up quitting science. I was actually a little surprised it was so soon. I went back, I don't know if you picked up this clip, but it's under bonus clips. You should have it in your box. Oh, well. I went back and picked up the last question, Prime Minister's Question Time, where you can hear
01:38 When you heard this question time, it was a matter of, you know, it was over. You could just tell they were laughing in her face. It was really pathetic. And she shows no, she doesn't have that, you know, like, The Prime Minister during question time tends to be nasty and they give it back harder than they get it. If you're a good one, yeah. Yeah, if you're a good one. And the best that I've ever seen is Gilead or whatever her name was down in Australia. Oh yes, yes, yeah. She was scary. She was basically a mean person. But she kept falling on her face. Well, yeah. Do you remember that? No. Yeah, yeah. She kept falling off of her pumps.
02:26 and she'd fall twice in a row. She's probably never meant to wear high heels. I have the clip. This is five and a half minutes, this clip. It's long, but you can interrupt it. But it's kind of... It gets better at the end. I mean, they're just giving it to her. And it is long, but it's worth... You can see where she's losing it. Prime Minister's questions with Justin Mathers. Question number one, please, Mr. Spillers. Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.
03:10 When the penny dropped for the Prime Minister on Monday and she realised that her budget was responsible for crashing the economy, she should have come to this house to explain herself and to apologise. That's right, she didn't show up, right? They were waiting for her for an hour I think and she just didn't show up? I think some like that, yeah. Yeah, people are like, well what's up with her? Oh no, she's very busy. She's doing other things. Millions of people who will now be paying hundreds of pounds extra a month on their mortgages because of her mistakes. But now she's here, can she tell us, given the absolute chaos her government has created, why the Chancellor lost his job but she kept hers? Mr Speaker, I have been very clear that I am
03:58 Mr Speaker, that I am sorry and that I have made mistakes. But the right thing to do in those circumstances is to make changes, which I've made, and to get on with the job and deliver for the British people. And Mr Speaker, we've delivered the energy price guarantee, we've helped people this winter and I will continue to do that. Can the leader of the opposition kiss Stabat? I miss this. I miss this so much. It's so much more fun to listen to. Why don't we have stuff like that?
04:39 They do in Canada. Canada's pretty rough up there, but they never play it so we can get a hold of it. Canada's rougher than the Brits, but these guys, this is the roughest I've ever been. They're really just hooting at her. You can hear laughing out loud. It's just really... And there's some good gags. There's a good gag, I think it was in this next segment, where it's just a funny bit that the guy pulls on her and... You'll hear it, it's kind of subtle. Thank you Mr Speaker, a book is being written about the Prime Minister's time in office. Apparently it's going to be out by Christmas. Is that the release date or the title?
05:24 I have been in office for just under two months and I have delivered the energy price guarantee, making sure that people are not paying £6,000 bills this winter. I have reversed the national insurance increase and I have also taken steps, and we will be taking steps, to crack down on the militant unions. Did you see the lettuce cam? The Liz Trust lettuce cam? No. Oh, they had a, you know, the old school webcam on a head of lettuce with a clock next to it, you know, a digital clock. And it was to see which would last longer, Liz Trust as Prime Minister or the head of lettuce.
06:18 The head of lettuce won. The head of lettuce is quite edible still. I think, Mr Speaker, that is more of a record of action than the honourable gentleman in his two and a half years in the job. Mr Speaker, last week the Prime Minister ignored every question put to her. Instead she repeatedly criticised Labour's plan for a six month freeze on energy bills. This week the Chancellor made it her policy. How can she be held to account when she's not in charge? Well Mr Speaker, our policy is to protect the most vulnerable for two years.
07:03 I had to take the decision because of the economic situation to adjust our policies. You know, this whole thing, especially now that she's out, I'm just going to double down on my theory that this was to cover up whatever shenanigans the Bank of England was into, blame it on her, get her out. It wouldn't even surprise me if Boris was elected Prime Minister again. No, that's not going to happen, but your thesis might be correct, but it's not. Well, would they bring in Jeremy Hunt? No, he would like to be in. No, there's some more interesting people out there in the wings that they can bring in and they probably will.
07:44 They don't bring back prime ministers, they're definitely not going to bring back Boris. I'm just saying it wouldn't surprise me, this is so blatant what she was there for. And they get that finance secretary, Kuatang, no one will even remember him. In fact, this guy could never ever work in politics again in the UK probably, but no one cared about him. We've never heard of that guy. Have her and him and boom and she gets sliced and diced and she'll be a special correspondent for CNN or something like that. Her charisma and gravitas, to use that old phrase, is not good enough to even get on CNN. She's very weak. It was so bad. They were cutting her up so bad.
08:33 I guess there was a mockumentary made about her that aired on television in the UK, but it wasn't exactly her, but to show that they meant it to be her. the actress who played her wore the same dress that she had worn in public. Here's a short clip. Emma Thompson in this BBC drama about an alt-right government coming to power in Britain, I think that's what it's about, she wore a dress based on a dress Liz Truss had worn in order to kind of smear Liz Truss as you know, a far-right populist demagogue. Because Liz Truss isn't very rich, certainly not as rich as Emma Thompson, she then wore the same dress, you know, two years later. At which point she was smeared for a second time, where people were saying, oh look, she's wearing the same dress that Emma Thompson wore in this BBC drama. But it's like, you know, if it was originally based on her, they're not surprising.
09:30 You know, I grew up with women. I've been around women my whole life. Much more female energy. There's not a single woman in the world after her dress was made fun of in a television show that would wear it again because she didn't have enough money. No way. That's bull. Yeah, I would probably agree with that. So that kind of stuff. By the way, there's an underlying misogyny to this whole go after Liz Truss thing, especially by the British who are misogynists. And the only women that have ever gotten into those positions have been mean women. Thatcher being the meanest of them. Still not compared to that woman in Australia, but Thatcher was pretty good at it. And even then they were, I remember Martin Amos
10:28 The novelist coming on one of the shows and making some commentary about Thatcher going to the men's room instead of the women's room. I remember that. Some sort of an offbeat way. It was kind of amusing character. But this whole thing, this is a charade. And it's not just, it's like four ministers, four of our ministers have resigned, I think. A bunch of them did. A couple others bailed out. Anyway, this wrapped us up because there's a good hoot at the end that was, that kind of summarizes it. I am somebody who's prepared to front up. I'm prepared to take the tough decisions. Unlike the Honourable Gentleman, who hasn't done anything on businesses, he's done nothing to say he'll protect people after one year. He's got no plan.
11:16 Last week the Prime Minister stood there and promised absolutely no spending reductions. They all cheered. This week the Chancellor announced a new wave of cuts. What's the point of a Prime Minister whose promises don't even last a week? Well I can assure the right honourable gentleman that spending will go up next year and it will go up the year after. But of course we need to get value for taxpayers' money. The Labour party has pledged hundreds of billions of spending pledges, none of which they've retracted. The honourable gentleman needs to reflect the economic reality in his policies.
12:04 Mr Speaker, those spending cuts are on the table for one reason and one reason only because they crash the economy. And working people are going to have to pay £500 more a month on their mortgages. And what's the Prime Minister's response? to say she's sorry. What does she think people will think and say? That's alright, I don't mind financial ruin, at least she apologised. I do think there has to be some reflection of economic reality from the party.
12:44 The fact is that interest rates are rising across the world and the economic conditions have worsened. We are being honest, we're levelling with the public, unlike the honourable gentleman who simply won't do it. And what is the honourable gentleman doing about the fact that workers, train workers, are again going on strike? The fact is he refuses to condemn the workers. We are bringing forward policies. Oh man. Mr. Speaker, we are bringing forward policies that are going to make sure our railways are protected, people going to work are protected. He backs the strikers, we back the strivers. Now, she already knew she was toast there. I mean, there was blood in the water. They're just circling around, they're hooting and hollering.
13:43 Poor Liz, oh well. Tells everyone to shut up and starts singling people out. Where was the speaker? You shut up, you shut up, and you can, you know, you're funny but shut up. And then when it calms down, the speaker stands, the prime minister stands up again and continues. She's never done that. She just puts up with it. She doesn't know how it works. Well, she's been there. She knows. She's seen it. Well, again, my theory just makes it more plausible. What a setup.
