Audio of Liz Truss dissected by James O'Brien

[@drt8990]

The utter, utter disdain. That these people have for us is absolutely extraordinary

[@PoetLoui]

Terrifying

[@oneoflokis]

Indeed! Looks like she wants us to be a non-democracy like China!

[@cenburry2811]

@IsraelDiegoRivera Genius2 The real Genius shut up u freak

[@lupinbrabablebix9840]

And yet they the great bwitish public vote for them , they queue up to vote for them , they shout and argue to defend them . You can’t blame a door for being a door , it’s a door, if you’re so effin stoopid that you put a door where a window ought to be because it insists its not a door it’s a window , yet you can see plain as plain can be it looks like a door acts like a door smells and tastes like a door you can’t blame the friggin door you can only blame the frigging idiots who put a door there expecting it to act like a window

[@ryans756]

To be fair, it's only the future Prime Minister saying these things out loud on mic. The rest of them do at least have the common decency to PRETEND to care.

[@allip4226]

Not breaking your back to make someone else rich is a rational response when you know your "reward" will be more work and a below inflation payrise (if you're lucky). We're told we should accept that companies will only ever act in their own best interests yet the Tories have a hissy fit when workers do the same. The hypocrisy is astonishing.

[@PoetLoui]

How dare UK workers not break their back for the cu*t with all the money!

[@glowwurm9365]

Literally all the statistics support your argument…

[@bigpoppa1234]

0 hour contracts, fire and rehire, inflation through the roof, no pensions, entire towns worth of people ruined by tories & neoliberalism. Why try? And what do you get if you and the rest of the lowest paid workers work themselves to death? Nothing for you all, but the CEO might make 10 million pounds a year not 9.9 million. What's the point.

[@andrewgreen1021]

Inflation is soaring, people are working multiple jobs to make ends meet, dicisions are heat or eat, yet we are lazy. When people strike to make things better for themselves when the see the people at the top get richer, they are vilified. The Conservative party is disgusting.

[@kiwihib]

I like how she brings up China, that place where they have suicide nets around the factories.

[@hollowg78]

You can even hear her self satisfied smirk

[@oliverkitkat6860]

I can hear the smirk as well maby she and the rest of the goverment should get best feet forward and do what they are payed for .

[@kieran1990able]

That laugh when she did speech on selling more cheese 😆😆😆

[@arriitv1716]

@@kieran1990able that speech is one of the most awkward things you can watch in politics. Woman doesn't know how to stop for pause in the right place, yet she wants to be prime minister? She can't speak well in public!

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

@@oliverkitkat6860 it's a wonder she can still smirk with her foot in her mouth.

[@ralphbrown2242]

ENGLISH TORY ARROGANT SMIRK THEIR *PASSWORD * TO BE ASHAMED OF .BUT YOU CANT EDUCATE *PORK* .

[@DD-fc1rv]

The cabinet are full of people who have never worked in their life!🤷‍♂️

[@wendymitchell587]

Totally agree such hypocrisy!! 'Missing in action' sums this atrocious goverment up....

[@MrRailjunkie]

They've worked hard at enriching themselves if you can call that work.

[@CouncilofOneElectronic]

I would love to see Jacob "nanny does it for me" Ress Moog try driving a delivery van on a zero hours contract. He would be sacked before noon.

[@GrimReader]

No but they've owned people who work which they equate to being the same. Stop voting for them

[@JohnnyMotel99]

@@CouncilofOneElectronic he'd most likely spend half the time telling his boss a better way to deliver a package!

[@boba2783]

Seriously the revelations in the past few months have been mind blowing and people still, STILL defend the chuffing Tories

[@nathanfurnival8724]

It’s because the left are such weirdos

[@allip4226]

Fewer and fewer idiots are vocally defending them, though. Keep hammering the point home, it is (slowly) getting through judging by the polls.

[@craigthebrute7929]

No one supports the Tories except out of pure self interest. Sadly they have the pensioners in their back pocket, no one will say “no thanks” to a pension triple lock electoral bribe.

[@oneoflokis]

Which they shouldn't! But which people are these??

[@rishispewcack5745]

It seems that many turkeys love voting for Christmas.

[@jackdaw7781]

The utter disdain I have for Tories is complete.

[@MrRailjunkie]

Well every time I think they can't make me have more disdain for them they seem to find a way.

[@cpuuk]

Yes Liz, China, that place that is well known for it's 'honest day of pay for an honest week of work earning it'. Liz, the UK is not a sweatshop, and if you think we need to be more like China your understanding of Western economics is sorely lacking.

[@ruthwhall3020]

Solely lacking more like f'ing terrifying

[@allip4226]

They've already criminalised protesting and are trying to make strikes effectively illegal, too. Welcome to Tory Sweatshop Britain.

[@PoetLoui]

We need to not let them sign us out of ECHR.. If they do... we're f'd

[@johntyclark832]

She wants 9-9-6 implemented in the uk

[@ddbanks8290]

I think most people think that your typical “liberal western” government look at China and how flagrantly they abuse their own citizens with disgust whilst they actually secretly admire the level of authoritarianism they have over their population

[@cpuuk]

Those "EU regulations" she wants to remove are the Working Rights Laws- pay, conditions, pension, equality etc- she does indeed want us to be a sweatshop of low pay.

[@stevebbuk]

She's upholding the 2016 Referendum result. If you don't have loser's consent in a democracy there's no point in voting in the first place.

[@danielokeefe2072]

@@stevebbuk the result where we promised that we didn't have to leave the Single Market or Customs Union?

[@serinadelmar6012]

@@stevebbuk she’s doing absolutely nothing regarding the referendum, much less upholding it, ridiculous level of stupidity.

[@mikedon5205]

China here we come

[@pansepot1490]

@@stevebbuk this government runs the country with 43% of the votes. With the same % Brexit would have been ditched. When the majority of voters vote against the Tories and yet the Tories get a landslide majority in parliament whatever the system is it’s not a democracy. That’s why so many people don’t see the point in voting.

[@imagecollections6665]

She's never worked a day in her life. Pretending to be a conservative doesn't count as work. She's a grifter, not a grafter.

[@chrisdyer6370]

She has absolutely no idea what productivity is, which is absolutely terrifying.

[@patthewoodboy]

I agree , one year (I did a production job on my own) I manufactured £900K of product , I thought about it and then realised I needed the sales staff to sell it , the staff who ordered the materials for me , the engineering department who made things so I could measure the product , the list goes on and on. We were a team who all worked hard.

[@theascendance]

If truss was paid on productivity she would earn NOTHING STAND TOGETHER IT’S NOW OR NEVER COMMUNITY UK

[@JoButterwick]

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! ✊

[@geordiedog1749]

The really scary thing is that Liz Truss actually thinks she’s intelligent. Seriously!! She does.

[@joe94c]

What a horrible person. This IS the tory party. She has served under David Cameron

[@LordOfLight]

I remember Sir John Harvey Jones (R.I.P.) saying something to the effect of "whenever something goes wrong, those in charge always claim it's the fault of the people beneath them in the hierarchy, and it hardly ever is. It's almost always a failure of leadership".

[@feekygucker2678]

Liz Truss has to be one of THE most nakedly political people in the UK… outside the current top three government incumbents naturally.

[@iandixon2278]

The very idea that Truss may become uk's PM would be laughable if not so probably catastrophic.But now it seems we are inured to incompetent government

[@chrisengland9995]

They are both dishonest and I dread to think which one is going to cause the most damage to this country over the next two years.

[@neiljones9005]

What’s the alternative

[@TheValeyard92]

@@neiljones9005 Not them. Shut up with your idiotic "but Labour..." blathering. Our freedoms are being junked, regulation protecting our health and environment has been sacrificed on the alter of Capitalism gone mad, people will literally have to choose between food and heat this winter (some won't afford either), and out public assets are being stolen and fenced to the lowest bidder... These are things that *are* happening... ... And you're going "but what's the alternative?" Plank.

[@petergaskin1811]

@@neiljones9005 The answer is an honest non-Conservative Government.

[@MrRailjunkie]

@@neiljones9005 A progressive alliance & coalition among all MP's that want to change politics for the better & build a new fairer workable sustainable system & society that benefits everyone.

[@chatham43]

...you have the evidence to back that up....thought not.....now go away....

[@silversurfer7341]

The only way that the UK could have a better future, is to consign the conservative party to history.

[@staffsaddler7611]

We need a proper right wing government which stands for the people of uk. All these left wing liberals need ousting

[@Paul-eb4jp]

She's clearly no brexiteer, our low productivity is due to lack of investment, compare us with Germany and not China.

[@oneoflokis]

Exactly!

[@patriciamcl54]

And many years ago Will Hutton pointed out that the low rate of investment was mostly down to attitudes among the wealthy, that the only smart way to get rich was by playing the money market, instead of concerning yourself with manufacturing and exportable services. Look at the current top tier of the Tory party and they are mostly bankers, hedge fund managers and the like. Investment is decreasing further as the country tips into fascism and economic chaos.

[@walterschluterjun5594]

Don't forget, that we (Germany) are the bad guys in Europe. This is what your media told you for decades. At some point, this imagery was extended to the rest of the EU, being the obstacle in the UK's way. I never understood why so many of you bought it. China, in her point of view and argumentation, is the appropriate example. This will help to justify the withdrawal of human and workers rights. China is only so competitive and successful, because they don't have these red tapes. If I was in your place, I would sleep with one eye open. Things will get much worse in ever shorter time intervals.

[@Paul-eb4jp]

@@walterschluterjun5594 I never bought it Walter, I love your country.

[@MissyGail4eva]

"I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it." -Bill Gates

[@mandismith89]

and do it half assed

[@anthonyfelix8589]

Until he starts playing on his phone during work, has no motivation and wants more money which he doesn't generate because of his laziness. I think there is some truth to this, look at how well immigrants do in this country due to their far higher work ethics.

[@globalist1990]

@@anthonyfelix8589 it's mostly hustling culture. They want the cash and willing to sacrifice for it. We're not 50 years ago.

[@TheValeyard92]

Sadly, it's that mindset that got us here, with outgoing PM Boris Johnson.

[@harrybruijs2614]

Gates meant a lazy intelligent person. Not Liz Truss

[@robtyman4281]

I think it's only the English keeping the Tories in power.... everyone in the other three home nations has realised how incredibly toxic and damaging they are, not just to our economy, but in terms of how the rest of the world sees us. For them the penny has now dropped....if it hadn't years ago. For the majority of English people, however, this still hasn't happened yet. How long before, as JoB puts it "the scales drop from their eyes?" How long indeed......how long is a piece of string?

[@oneoflokis]

Due to Little Englanderism and Empire nostalgia?

[@robtyman4281]

@@oneoflokis Yep, no doubt.

[@stevenpyne1994]

@@oneoflokis Haven't heard too much about the CANZUK movement lately! Hopefully, that little folly has died a death; heaven forfend that the likes of Liz Truss and her "Little Englander" followers try to bully the old Commonwealth into following her mantra. We have enough of our own troubles and political clowns, thank you!

[@jannenreuben7398]

Not a majority - due to our archaic electoral system the Tories got 100% of the power in 2019 with roughly 1/3 of the electorate actually voting for them. The system is at fault rather than the voters.

[@grahamleiper1538]

Wales has never voted Tory, Scotland hasn't voted Tory since the 1950s. They don't even stand in NI.

[@martinmoore7551]

Well done Ms Truss, you have single handily converted me to Socialism. My father would have been over the moon.

[@Nemesis20252]

With you there no way I will ever vote tory again

[@richardfairs4871]

@@Nemesis20252 why did you in the first place?

[@Nemesis20252]

I never voted for bojo the clown and his cronies I used t9 vote tory but my conciense won't let me again

[@therespectedlex9794]

@@Nemesis20252 Conciense?

[@jesmarina]

Maybe just move to Social Democracy - it actually works!

[@01parmy]

they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work

[@walterschluterjun5594]

This is a legitimate point of view.

[@robboniface6752]

She must be speaking of her experience within the Tory Party when she talks about people being lazy.

[@rugby86]

Honestly, right now this makes me feel absolutely hopeless. Made redundant on May, been job hunting, had 4 interviews all rejections. Applied for job positions (realistic with my skills and experience related) and no feedback. Right now I feel absolutely hopeless. I swallowed my pride and decided to move back into my parents, at the age of 30 and a single man, yeah I swallowed up my pride. I don’t care what people think of me, as long as I am surviving, and doing what I can to keep by and keep going. Some have even mentioned, to try to attain a new skill or new qualifications while unemployed, that’s just not worth it, especially when looking for jobs in an already hyper-competitive job market, with so many limited jobs all of us are going for. I also feel for the citizens whom are long-term unemployed who are also trying. Sorry but I feel absolutely hopeless. All of us lucky enough to be in whatever employment, I know we all work hard. Keep it going guys.

[@karl9411]

Yip and with Brexit , bang goes the ability to hunt for jobs in the really big market , Europe. It’s suffocating.

[@CouncilofOneElectronic]

I'm the same age as you and just recently in the same position. Its hard, no sugar coating that. Keep the faith and things will turn around. My tip is don't compare yourself to previous generations where everyone was expected to have everything done and dusted by 30. We don't live in that world anymore and things are more complicated now. Just keep your head down focus and things will come right.

[@try1086]

I know you will get something soon, please do not give up or feel bad that you move back home. You do what you need to do to survive.

[@rugby86]

I did not expect to get many comments with what I put previously. Wise comments and support. I hope everyone is also keeping a positive mindset as well. I also agree, with the job market with Brexit, my options are even more restricted. Also true regarding our generation, times are vastly different from before. Stay safe as well everyone, keeping a positive mindset.

[@nicksharp9122]

Don’t give up hope, you’re still young enough to retrain and explore your options.

[@frogandspanner]

4:55 "We didn't just simply accept the orthodoxy" yet Truss is expecting us to accept the orthodoxy of the Cult of the Invisible Hand.

[@st266]

Productivity as about more than someone “grafting”. It’s about training, investment in tools, plant, equipment, and infrastructure and a supportive supply chain. The logical conclusion is that Liz’s Brexit with it’s 24 mile tailback’s at Dover and massive inefficiencies that have been driven into trading with our biggest partners has somehow made people in the UK lazier. I’ve worked in Germany Liz, they don’t “graft” any harder then we do. I suppose if you’re trying to be the new Thatcher you need to return to the, no longer relevant, language of the 1970s.

[@angussoutter7824]

We’d support Truss if she was like her hero 💀

[@abbersj2935]

"If we're going to be a richer country, we need to be more like china". Or we could just save ourselves £100 BILLION a year by not having had brexit, and tory mismanagement of covid response.

[@John_259]

The Chinese government has lifted millions of people out of poverty. The Tories have pushed a large number of people into poverty.

[@abbersj2935]

@@John_259 That's true John. What do they do to capitalists or politicians found to be acting against the national interests?

[@bobrayner1093]

John 259, and the tories exported most of our manufacturing capability to China and the far East.

[@Harrison_Rs]

Sad thing is she will most likely win and will send us into your dark age

[@kevster6244]

I'll happily swap jobs with Truss, or any MP, see how they cope with a real job.

[@MrRailjunkie]

Yes but Hopefully she will lose The Tories the next election. That's the best we can hope to get from her.

[@chatham43]

....alternative is the Sir Keir party...formerly known as the Labour party....

[@MrRailjunkie]

@@chatham43 Yes & a much better alternative than we have now but I suppose you would rather have a woman who can't find her way out of a one door room.

[@rufusharbud3673]

Bring on Truss as Prime Minister.... I say this because evidently, through what we have seen and heard from her, on how she lays her stall out as a working minister and now as a candidate as PM. When she does get in to Downing Street, she will make such an absolute clown show of a leader or the Tories, that in 6 months time everyone will think back to Blithering Johnson as a better solution. ( He obviously wasn't). We then need all the brexiteer's to face up and admit that they were lied to in voting for such a shambles, and we can then build a population that stands together in the next election to get rid of this corrupt and self serving government. The solution to better productivity and efficiency in the UK is not lining the pockets of shareholders and CEO's of business. The solution is to invest in the business, and invest in your workforce. There is too many greedy people in this country who want more and more and more. This has been fed to us from the Tory manifest pledges time and time again, to make you believe " I am alright Jack, Eff the rest of you". If anyone of the ministers and cabinet members in the Tories right now thought anything of the general public right now,( who's taxed money props up the corrupt pockets of these said upstanding members) they would have already put in place a solution to where this country is going. Compared to countries around the World, we are a shambles, led by corrupt selfish out of touch so called figure heads. Please if you are a Tory voter and you disagree with anything I have said above, please feel free to respond , and explain why you think why this Clown car of a party is the way forward.

[@thesamsquatch2704]

I’m not a Tory voter and after the farce of the last 12 years I never will be, but I can tell you that if you get any response to your request at the end of your comment it will almost certainly be something along the lines of ‘But think how awful it would be if the opposition were in charge!’, followed by some incoherent ranting about communism and Antifa.

[@perrylindsay6682]

all of this 👍👍👍

[@mikesmith5139]

100% accurate analysis.

[@inspectregadget3561]

Most of the Brexiteers will never admit they were wrong, they'll just blame "Remoaners" for why Brexit was such a mess and that it would have been even worse if we were still in EU (even though it clearly wouldn't have)

[@gretareinarsson7461]

I have always been of the opinion that the EU was used as a scapegoat for internal problems in the UK.

[@derekp2674]

Yes, 'scapegoat' is the word James was struggling for at one point in this video.

[@landsgevaer]

It still is.

[@ganrimmonim]

It's the laugh at the end, which gets me. The utter contempt in which they hold the people who vote for them.

[@wilmaflinstone7650]

Adam Frankenberg Because they know some thick people out there will still vote for them.

[@danieleyre8913]

Well Brexit muppets deserve contempt.

[@chatham43]

...noted...now go away....

[@snsn7251]

Her remark about "militant unions" amongst other things makes her a very dangerous person. Her and the likes of Priti Patel are just the worst.

[@getheroutofthetruck]

Patel should be in prison.

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Unions actually do increase productivity. The countries with the highest productivity mostly have very influential unions.

[@colettespooner225]

Go work a shift in a factory Liz.. then correct yourself..how dare you

[@chatham43]

...or a building site like James...😂😂....

[@Melsharpe95]

Liz Truss is the type of woman to wait to see which way the crowd is going then charge to the front shouting "Follow me!!" Career Politician.

[@maureengreenin3003]

Sounds like Trump on 6/1/21

[@ChrisParlett]

It's like her brain got stuck in a loop when she converted to Tory at 21.

[@doppies2000]

a common Symptom, amongst others, of Tory Cult Followers !

[@silversurfer7341]

Mr Parlett She must have seen the dark. That's the only way you could describe someone, who joins the conservative party.

[@juliegreen640]

Shes got to have one for it to get stuck!!

[@marcus_electric]

She has a brain?!

[@CouncilofOneElectronic]

I wonder if she suffered a brain injury or something at the time. Besides isn't doing a 360 flip on all your beliefs and personality traits a symptom of a personality disorder of some kind?

[@eddiegillies6135]

Look - if they can constantly stand-up and lie for Bojo , then they can just as easy lie themselves. How can anyone possibly trust Truss.

[@envy99976]

Brexit voters are to blame in this mess we are in!

[@MrXaphus]

You mean 2019 Tory voters? There's a big difference between "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union, or leave the European Union?" and "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union, or leave the European Union and the terms of departure be negotiated by the Conservative Party?"

[@paulfoot9230]

No they are not the Tories are, Brexit was won on massive lies

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Estonian inflation 22%

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Old Labour voted Leave, the big Banks were for Remain.

[@bobrayner1093]

Paul Foot, not only a grat name but you opinion is spot on also.

[@kurtz2ld907]

Honestly we need to get rid of this clown show government now. If only Labour had provided an effective opposition they would have been gone long ago. Surely only Daily Mail readers are voting Tory now?

[@kurtz2ld907]

@Laura UK well I was with you for half of that.. I agree Starmer isn’t ideal.. but Government isn’t about 1 man and overall Labour are far more

[@kurtz2ld907]

Electable

[@OldPoi77]

Well in other countries they can buy 30g of tobacco for about £7 and a pint of beer for about £1 still and they have more moral because they can go to work have a pint and a smoke and still afford to buy their houses, in the UK there are people scared to go and have a few pints in case they get carried away and cant afford the electric payments.

[@Blue-Polaris]

It’s very sad to think that this person will be our next PM.

[@neilarmour4497]

I take heart in the fact that she will be the 3rd in a row that has broken the record for the shortest serving PM

[@meehawlcollins9411]

Sunak, Johnson and the majority of the Conservative party have the same view of the people of Britain

[@jaffat3560]

All MPs should be required to provide evidence of the number of hours worked per week and what they worked on!

[@lorcanfeely6371]

It’s weirdly the only time I’ve heard her tell the truth. Such a shame that she will deny it.

[@csharpe5787]

Clearly you very ignorant to what improved productivity

[@georgewatt354]

She is such a flip flopped and will do and say anything to get into power, here we go again Britain, it will be a rocky time ahead🤦🏻‍♂️

[@johnrider5701]

When she talks about a richer country she means making her rich friends even richer.

[@GvonGaming]

In all fairness she's probably used to being surrounded by the Conservative cabinet. That's the level of graft she's seen over the past few years.

[@stevenmartin4587]

Or rather GRIFT

[@iangascoigne8231]

Someone should ask her about her productivity. Since she’s not been very productive.

[@patthewoodboy]

her productivity is negative , she hasnt produced anything and takes a salary. Her policies as a politician have had a negative result aswell

[@chatham43]

...like James she produce s plenty of hot air....

[@billpugh58]

@@chatham43 better cancel him then huh? You right wingers would love to:) too bad, he will remain a thorn in your side. Still you can join the OAPs watching GB News if you want to feel safe.

[@neiltaylor6443]

Well,with that assessment of the British workforce,we will be inundated by foreign investment in the future won’t we....🤔

[@stuartmcrae1647]

Thanks for sharing James. Liz Truss is so inept. She sits in the house that represents the common people and does not represent the common man or woman. She is an embarrassing career politician

[@markwelch3564]

Wish I could have a fly an the wall view of the next cabinet meeting, with Truss and Raab in the same room!

[@patriciamcl54]

The idea that she put her name to a pamphlet without reading it, that what Raaab wrote has come as a surprise to her, is such a childish excuse. "Oh no, it wasn't me, honest!"

[@Brellowcrop]

How much does she work? Never done a full days work in her life

[@chatham43]

...evidence for that statement please....

[@Brellowcrop]

@@chatham43 She's a Tory politician, mate. What more needs to be said...

[@barryhickman9470]

I COULD NOT HAVE PUT IT BETTER.......................The utter, utter disdain. That these people have for us is absolutely extraordinary

[@EnemyAI]

There needs to be some oversight from the people where these freaks can just be removed immediately from public service. Just like when a business sacks someone for gross misconduct. This is the first step towards fighting the corruption in our political system.

[@thethinkingcatakaneonormie3527]

It's pretty amazing this week I'm on 50 hours which is 2 strike days as I'm a rail worker and my average week is 63 hours over 7 days but usually is 74 hours and this Fruitcake is saying I need to work longer, really we need an election hopefully sparked off by a national strike

[@Roar1987]

No, she's talking about how productive people are while at work, she isn't saying you personally need to work more hours. Do you just go looking for offense?

[@paulfairbairn1066]

@@Roar1987 like politicians work hard?

[@henryjohnfacey8213]

Absolutely I drive a bus and lorries. I love the job, Rotten hours. Low pay, rotten conditions. Just got longer and longer days.

[@Roar1987]

@@paulfairbairn1066 The country is factually not very productive Paul, it isn't a dig at anyone, this is based on economic data. You can shout at data but it's still going to be correct

[@BLUESKY-zt1nv]

How are workers in China treated? Workers are routinely exposed to a variety of dangerous working conditions that threaten their health and their safety. Low wages, long hours and excessive overtime remain the norm. Chinese workers have few, if any, options to seek redress and voice grievances under these harsh conditions..........Its the Tory ideal ..

[@roypaton5573]

We in the uk work longer hours than our counterpart in europe some the most off us have to work long hours to make a decent wage and this lady has a bare face cheek to say what she said about the uk .this is more tory lies and self absovied party to which see a part of the whole lie

[@monsieurfoupierre]

They hate the working class - they would have you working 7 days 12 hours for nothing.

[@murraymaclean3048]

It’s the colonialism and the far right at the heart of the Tories, that sees everyone as peasants. That will never change, until the people change them.

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

More graft does not lead to higher productivity. It probably will only lower it. Higher productivity requires investment, not graft.

[@kanedNunable]

pay peanuts, get monkeys

[@thomashughes7336]

I like this line

[@myx0myc0t4]

May I pease tell you in a nutshell what i as a hungarian working woman in this country find the biggest difference between the working morale in the two nations (uk/ eastern europe)? Where i'm from, you put your hands together and you're on your knees thanking your luck that you have a job, and you are expected to feel this way. Like you are being appreciated by being allowed to work here. You should hush hush, do your duty quietly, dont stir up the water, and then you'll be able to feed your family for a long time. In the same position. What i see in the UK is that workers know that they represent a value without which the company can't run, and they want to be treated nicely for the skillset they bring to the game. For me, adopting the UK mindset was a gamechanger at looking at my own life, career and career development. I see a path ahead leading up and forward, not i to a pool of tepid water. It's not the workers who are in the wrong here. This b#&h has no idea what it feels like when daddy and the rich friends don't pave the road for you, and you have to accomplish it yellow brick by yellow brick.

[@rodb9492]

I once considered emigrating to the UK because the government of my country is incompetent, inept, arrogant and corrupt - basically little more than a criminal cartel. Now I no longer consider your government any better than mine. In fact, it could actually be worse. Far worse. And electing either of the current contenders is going to be a disaster - particularly, however, if - as expected - it ends up being Truss. You are well and truly rubber-ducked. So I'll stay where I am.

[@coppershark1973]

Unreal. Like all Tory promises.

[@theferret390]

Typical Tory.She should be ashamed 😒

[@philmcchrystal1670]

But she doesn’t quantify how poor the British workers productivity is, my guess she’s just lying

[@emilymcplugger]

Thing is …on the one hand …she’s not wrong. Workers do produce less, productivity-wise than other workers. Here’s where she’s wrong. It is a management/political leadership problem that’s the issue, not the workers. Workers have little they can do to improve their productivity. It is down to management decisions and culture to make sure workers are fairly compensated. We don’t have that. We have a greedy upper-corporate culture that believes shareholders are worth more than those that do the work. Tories like Truss can’t work this out as they’re looking through the large to small end of the telescope and not the other way round.

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Productivity is all about investment, not about graft. Just pushing people harder only leads to less productivity.

[@OYimperium]

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Yep, it's an investment issue mainly. Misplaced investment or lack of for most companies. If a cabbie is making more money than another cabbie with the same hours, it's could be because he is working much much harder or it's more likely he has better cab that is faster or takes less fuel.

[@globalist1990]

I joined GMB today.

[@DannyPoet]

Because that EU legislative about dumping raw sewage in lakes, rivers and beaches was really holding back Britain 💩💩💩 kind of makes you sick about the vision they have for the UK regarding the future.

[@stan4723]

Big Singapore. Deregulation. Interesting those EU countries with better productivity were operating under the same regulations and directives- the only difference is that they did not have a Tory government imposing AUSTERITY on the economy.

[@tomwaller6893]

Just as well, few in Scotland are British then. Our answer will be the next election we will call INDY2 "Get Independence Done" Then, if England insists on repeating the historical mistakes of Ireland in 1906/1918, that is your problem, for Scotland is taking back control.

[@nathanfurnival8724]

Taking back control to be ruled by Europe 😂

[@evolassunglasses4673]

But the SNP are pro open borders Globalisation.

[@adam346]

Canada is actually seeing a slow-growth for the next 5 years because of our lower-ish productivity... and many theorize it is because of a lack of capital and investment into making each worker more efficient. In the US they have tons of capital to make every worker as efficient as possible and the spend per worker is almost twice as much as in Canada.. I would be interested to find out what the spend per worker in the UK is.

[@lucastaylor2321]

Probably lower than all G7. We are terrible in Britain with capital investment and productivity.

[@doubleana9184]

People will blame Labour once again. What us wrong with people choice of voting

[@garyfryer5334]

Who?

[@doubleana9184]

@@garyfryer5334 tory voters will blame Labour for the downfall of tories

[@garyfryer5334]

@@doubleana9184 Labour are a bunch of c...s. just like the Tories!

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Corbyn was anti EU for 30 years, became a leader and flipped flopped then crashed in the Leave seats.

[@ennbee2051]

Desperate times, desperate measures.

[@shezzawalker3022]

James you uncover so much. Please keep up your great work! People are believing her because they want to. Kier has to step up!

[@chrismalcomson7640]

The idea working class people should make progress is horrifying to her. Why shouldn't we be happy working 80 hours a week picking veg and getting benefit top ups to cover the rent? Food banks give out free food! What more do we want?

[@rg-web-design]

Voting, taxes, economics, wellfare, taxes, health, education, taxes, law and enforcement ... taxes, the system is broken in many ways.

[@nickthenoodle9206]

GB is the 13th most productive country in the world. Always need to fact check Liz Truss.

[@nathanfurnival8724]

So you are being nationalistic now ? That’s far right 😂

[@nickthenoodle9206]

@@nathanfurnival8724 Being 13th is just a fact.

[@Bananaskin101]

Where is she getting her facts from? Citation please.

[@Ruffian_Xion]

Her backside (and they're not facts, they're 'facts').

[@public.public]

AND currently the grass IS greener the other side of the channel.

[@Starboy.G]

"It's 11 O'clock".

[@太好了F]

Powerful words

[@dad2isla]

I think Brexit was needed - so the Tories could take a sledgehammer to worker rights, social support, public sector, etc, etc. It was just the first step.

[@denismullane1300]

Unfortunately one of these two horror shows is going to end up being prime minister....a position now so toxic that either one of them will fit it like a glove!

[@kryptikknowledge1501]

Where are all the gammons gone? Awfully quiet now ain't it??

[@nathanfurnival8724]

Rather a gammon than a smelly bongo 😳

[@kryptikknowledge1501]

@@nathanfurnival8724 bongo? Smelly? How old are you mate?... 😂

[@markrogers6601]

@@kryptikknowledge1501 The comments these people write just proves that "keeping it in the family" doesn't really improve the gene pool.

[@mrpopparouni8571]

@@kryptikknowledge1501 Mental age of about 10, at best.

[@MontyCantsin5]

@Nathan Furnival: Troll.

[@binmcbin1890]

Hello, Aussie here... why is this not bigger news? Is there something about British politics I'm not getting, why isn't this huge?

[@pauln6803]

How many lies can you tell before some of them come back to bite you?

[@TheKermit2110]

This country will never move on until it chucks its scarves away

[@jameshblack]

If you break a law of the government , you will end up in court , but if the government breaks the law , nothing happens ????

[@danmoar94]

I am absolutely stunned. Sadly no longer that a member of the government would have that view, but to actually hear it out loud is still utterly mad

[@uapuat]

A more prosperous country? More prosperous for whom?

[@RonaldShea5680]

The vastly overpopulated UK can take no more of this insanity, our once wonderful country is systematically being destroyed financially, environmentally, culturally and ethnically. Absolutely deplorable.

[@jensatts7125]

Ethnically? How do you mean?

[@jamessteel9016]

Thick Lizzy hate British workers, this audio only confirms when so co-authored 'Britania unchained'. Remember this when the next GE happens.

[@jobandknock427]

This woman calls for more graft - and there was me thinking there was already enough corruption in the Tory party. We work the least hours? Nah, try France for that. We retire early? So how long should people work? Until they drop? And this from a woman who has never done a hard day's work on a production line, or a farm, or on a construction site in her life. She doesn't know what graft is

[@TheOnlyCathyCat]

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

[@dooda77penn19]

Any chance of a audio of Carl Beech?

[@yscol1313]

She says on average UK workers are “less productive” but this includes the productivity of any machines, tools equipment used. Surely this reflects the lack of investment in industry in the UK rather than a “work culture” problem? Yes, Chinese people work harder but the reality is that these days, machines are supposed to do most of the work.

[@OYimperium]

Productivity for a country is roughly measured by how much that country produces divided by the how much it puts in (labour/working population, capital). It's not limited to manufacturing because we produce a LOT in services. The issue is how can we improve this even more. Lots of countries do better, is it a reflection of working culture (like truss says), or is it more nuanced? The UK has been low on this measure for about 20 years now and one of the biggest challenges has been how to improve it.

[@yscol1313]

@@OYimperium I’m aware of this, you think financial services are all operated manually with zero software intelligence or automation? This technology requires investment.

[@Steve0272.]

What she thinks is irelivent , can you demonstrate she's wrong using data

[@csharpe5787]

Yes, The bank of England are putting interest rates up to curd spending and she wants to buy votes by giving tax cuts. That make no sense at all. I don't want to live in a country thats all about self, like America.

[@leighvaughton2740]

She's confusing low productivity with lazy workers. Low productivity is caused by lack of investment. She should have a word with the lazy never-lift-a-finger financier backers of her party to sort that out.

[@space.youtube]

More to the point, she believes the way to make Britain more "prosperous" is by extracting more and more out of workers who've already been bled dry by a decade of tory austerity, wage stagnation and the steady upward redistribution of wealth from workers to the capital class. One has to ask what she means by "prosperity", because it doesn't seem to have much to do with improving the lot of working class people.

[@weswheel4834]

That clip at the end was still horribly consistent though. If she still believes that British workers are lazy and don't apply themselves properly, then if she can cut back on employment rights, well, we can be more like the Chinese workers that she referenced in the clip. :(

[@KrisRogos]

Okay, let's do this. Tie the value of the person to how many pencil sharpeners they can make in an hour, how many rolls of bread they can sell, and how many lines of code they can write. Fine with that. It just means that the 2 groups of people who become absolutely worthless become politicians, especially the Tories who literally want to remove laws and protections, thus having a negative output per hour. The 2nd would be landlords, who take assets someone else has created and put them back on the market unchanged in any way, but at an inflated price without adding any value or making anything themselves. Do we have a deal, Liz?