'I can't see her coming back from this': James O'Brien thinks PM Liz Truss is done for

[@philloomer]

I'm 40, have a 2 year old daughter, a brain tumour and work in a supermarket. I'm tired. So tired of austerity, corruption, no dentists run down NHS, environmental tragedy. These people are horrific. I voted for Corbyn, but will vote for Starmer in the hope things might get better.

[@allip4226]

Solidarity and hang in there brother! I know it might not feel like it right now but better times are ahead. At least the rest of the country is finally seeing what we have always known about the Tories!

[@LL-vk9zc]

Get all of your friends and acquaintances to vote Labour or LibDems, whichever is appropriate in your area.

[@mirrrie]

Im so sorry . I hope you will recover soon. You should not have to work while going through this

[@dddz961]

get back to work

[@browneyes2674]

I hope and pray you have a full recovery and are able to see your children grow into Adulthood. Ameen

[@elpresidente8730]

My younger brother died last week after a battle with cancer, he was 62. if he had been diagnosed sooner I think he would have has a fighting chance. I am convinced that 12 years of Tory austerity was responsible. If ordinary working people vote for this lot again then we are done for. The Tory party is now devoid of any morals and unfit to govern.

[@rugby3431]

I'm so sorry for your loss I'm pretty suicidal.... scared to desth

[@concordep2504]

El Presidents, I am so sorry for your loss. I agree that austerity has hurt the country badly.

[@randomname5338]

This !! A close family member has terminal , could have been found by a better funded NHS ,pre COVID mind you How many more people must suffer like our relatives before people become angry and demand valuable change . Thing is cancer saps away so much energy and just leaves you emptier whilst politicians get fab healthcare and don't have to think about warmth during winter

[@elpresidente8730]

@@rugby3431 Hang in there mate, it's always darkest before the dawn. I have a feeling change is coming.

[@elpresidente8730]

@@concordep2504 Thank you for your kind words. The important thing is we keep fighting these zealots.

[@NowhereNarrative]

Never underestimate the Tory ability to spin, and the public's ability to forget.

[@truthtotell7583]

Oh so true... and the power and influence of money.....

[@nickdoughty518]

too many people read the gutter press and have their brains wiped everyday.

[@paulb9769]

Everyone said the same thing 14 years ago.

[@bigpants6121]

They can spin but not hide.

[@johnnywest2468]

yes that's true. but it feels like even if she gets out of this and we "all move on", there's no way to resolve the underlying conflict *within* the Tory Party. Most people who voted for Brexit wanted more national control in a way which benefitted ordinary people. But Truss and Kwarteng belong to the very small libertarian vanguard who see Brexit as the means to build some kind of Ayn Rand society of sovereign individuals (or whatever it is)... Red Wall vs Free Market fanatics. that's a dilemma that just can't be resolved. so there will be another crisis down the line, and then another and so on...

[@chrish961]

I visited a farmers market..it was literally deserted...give the lower tax payers a tax break, thd market is full...the farmers get more money to create jobs...the outlying coffee shops are full and can create jobs etc etc...give Tarquin a tax break and the money goes offshore..its very simple..trickle UP not down to kick-start the economy

[@audreybarnes6527]

Farmers don't create jobs they hire agency staff via a third party.

[@GraemeRoberts]

Poor people spend, rich people hoard. It's really basic economics. It should be taught in schools, and if it were, the Tories would never get a look in.

[@fractalofgod6324]

So simple, such thick people.

[@lindapenlington1730]

Exactly

[@tassko]

True words.

[@Dont_Believe_them]

What do people expect these people were elected and then given high office jobs based on how much they would lie about Brexit??????

[@RobBCactive]

You nailed that!

[@RobBCactive]

@@Gm-nx9je give the guy kudos for summing the real problem up in so few words

[@FredGreenGB]

​@@Gm-nx9je I'd tend to agree if the system wasn't all the same toffs secretly in cahoots with each other. personally I feel left , right wing it doesn't matter because they are both from the same bird. I feel it's been this way for a long time . Party's of lobbyist and nothing more. I mean where is the option when voting to say none of the above and why is it only Oxford graduates seem to become pm (29 to be exacted) . I'd like to be given the chance to vote for a person who actually has a record of achievements who have experienced the real world like a savvy business man/woman . I'm just saying I feel we just keep getting the same over and over again .

[@Dont_Believe_them]

@@Gm-nx9je Agreed👍

[@massinakmin8340]

Democracy and voting does not bring change. Unions bring change.

[@Walesbornandbred]

Liz Truss is the best thing that happened to the Labour Party in years. Way to go Liz keep torpedoing the Tories!

[@Andrew-tx9jy]

Unfortunately she's also torpedoing the country too...

[@jonathanwalker8730]

My grandfather brought down more German aircraft than anyone else during WWII. He was the worst engineer the Luftwaffe ever had.

[@leeroii89]

Labour are the same. When will people realize the end result will always favour the super Rich. Regardless of who's PM and what party. Waste of time supporting any they all going against their word and cave to the demands of the big corporations, and never favour the taxpayer

[@johnou.k.3780]

That’s why they wanted Boris out ( including this Gorilla O’Brien ) , by the way you have Starmer

[@jonnyc429]

@@jonathanwalker8730 Same thing with my grandfather, killed battalions of soldiers during the war. The eventually replaced him as chef though

[@drastberry1454]

Ignore Truss... Its the people who pull her strings that we need to be concerned about.

[@stretto71]

100%,,,listen to how she gives her responses to questions,, like on the several local radio stations she gave on air interviews too,, scripted and mechanical,, struggles to get her words out when diviating from her script answers and never answers the question,, goes off on a tangent,,, so I agree WEF pushing her buttons!!!

[@JackyHapy]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@theotherside8258]

dont think the same people dont have their tentacles creeping into the labour party as we speak

[@explorer0213]

BINGO!!!👏👏👏👏

[@explorer0213]

@@theotherside8258 they will have there own advisors let's hope there not brain dead too.

[@stansbruv3169]

She’s so dedicated to this path that it feels like she’s “just following orders”

[@rsb5575]

Orders from BJ may be

[@jugaloo5873]

@@rsb5575 Boriski or Putin?

[@Arltratlo]

ERG orders...that are the people in the black Hugo Boss uniforms....

[@kanedNunable]

@@jugaloo5873 ERG

[@toriesdontgettazered7464]

Tuften street ?

[@allip4226]

If Liz Truss has finished off the Tories' chances of getting reelected along with her own political career, then that's the defining achievement of her time as Prime Minister. Hopefully they'll be out of power for a generation now that the British public has *finally* seen through them.

[@alankirkby465]

Alli P Much !! can happen in the next two years ( next election) concerning both Conservative and Labour Party. The public forget most things after no time at all ( just saying ) Anyway, Peace to all.

[@WhichDoctor1]

​@@alankirkby465 the tory party won't be able to keep functioning for two years. Truss is gone, she just hasn't noticed yet. And when she goes the party will be in such a mess whatever D tear nobody they manage to get into the PMship, or Boris Johnson again, will be unable to do anything at they'll be spending all their time fighting off predatory journalists and their own back benchers. Next election will be 6 months from now at the latest

[@LiveDonkeyDeadLion]

@@alankirkby465 no, they don’t forget and they don’t forgive. And can a lot happen in the next two years? Yes, most likely an early election as she can’t form a government, she doesn’t have the faith of her MPs (who most didn’t vote for her anyway, especially if you remove the votes she was lent by Sunak as he thought he could beat her). They can’t remove her for a year and she can’t get anything through Parliament. She changed her mind on this as she couldn’t get it passed, not anything to do with the market, the pound of the public being angry, it was that she can’t get any policy through. She has no mandate from the public, no mandate from her party for what she wants to do. She won’t last very long, the big question is will it be an election before or after Christmas. And what can happen between then? Based on her first actual week in the job, a whole lot worse for everyone

[@seanhubbard6033]

I wouldn't give the British public that much credit.

[@alanhat5252]

The Torys have the owner of Cambridge Analytica on their team

[@stevegrim]

I heard a Tory minister on radio this morning, he was saying that the UK had the second lowest debt of any developed nation and we could easily afford the 45% tax for the millionaires. Where was this reasoning during the last twelve yeats of Tory austerity.

[@WhichDoctor1]

its also interesting how at a time of rising interest rates borrowing to fund ongoing tax cuts is a perfectly reasonable policy. Where as when Labour proposed borrowing at record low, almost zero, interest rates in order to invest in making the country more productive and competitive it was a ludicrously irresponsible and reckless policy that relied on a nonexistent "magic money tree".

[@AndyArmstrong88]

@@WhichDoctor1 Yet the Tories have now left the country with the highest ever level of national debt, and more debt than every Labour government historically combined, it’s safe to say previous Labour administrations were far more fiscally responsible than this current shower of a government

[@Gohka]

I will never understand why MPs are allowed to just lie to our faces. "Second lowest debt of any developed nation" I'd like to know where he got that from, because from a quick google our debt, for the first time in like 60 years is over 100% of our GDP and there's only a handful of other countries who's debt is that high.

[@Bertrum123]

@@Gohka thats right nearly as much as after the war it took clement Atlee a labour pm to get it down

[@Gregorovitch144]

This woman sounds like something Ricky Gervais would have written for himself in The Office.

[@dbarrett747]

yes!!!! exactly this!!! thank you i couldn't think of the right way to explain her

[@petergraham9267]

😂😂👍👍👍

[@AlphaNevada123]

Or someone from the thick of it.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

A deeply unintelligent, uninquisitive, unimpressive woman!

[@debbiehenri345]

Some people are saying she'll be out by Christmas. But isn't there a better tradition for getting rid of unwanted governments on 5th November?

[@biggusdickus5986]

I know what you're saying but to be pedantic the plot failed and it was Guy got burned not they government lol

[@georgejob2156]

Guy Fawkes,the only decent man to enter Parliament.. His intentions were honourable.

[@biggusdickus5986]

@@georgejob2156 They were actually religiously based

[@Gohka]

Maybe we should continue where Guy left off?

[@melodydantalionmellowastar1990]

@@biggusdickus5986 if fighting for a higher power is what it takes that's what is needed

[@michaelgoode9555]

No windfall tax. No banker bonus cap. Billions of borrowing to push inflation higher and to support war profits for fossil fuel companies. Higher domestic energy bills. Increasing amounts of fuel and food poverty. Things are really going well if you are the 0.1%

[@russelljenkins7953]

She'll be cutting everything that helps the common people because she hasn't a clue what it's like to have a tenner in their pocket to last them for another week before the next payments

[@annieanonymous611]

Yes to this, totally agree

[@lukestclair2514]

Half the people on these comments are in the same bracket people can't afford to eat or heat their homes yet all they can go on about is their f£€$ing dentists!!

[@coinneachreid8971]

Of course, Truss is done for, most of us foresaw her ineptitude on top of everything else from before her elevation, it's just that things have fallen apart so quickly that we've forgotten this

[@chebghobbi]

Imagine how quickly things would have fallen apart had the Queen not died and delayed everything for the better part of two weeks.

[@drunkengamer1977]

@@chebghobbi Yup in power for a week wrecks the economy because just like Boris she made her name saying provocative statements but is notoriously bad at detail. So basically just another cluekess narcissist that will say anything to remain relevant

[@coinneachreid8971]

@@chebghobbi LOL so true maybe they should have a world with Charles see if they can provide another distraction

[@fritzhenning1]

She has to be reprogrammed each day (hour?) to respond to 'events' as she has no thoughts herself and is terrified to express any view lest it is instantly ridiculed. Unfortunately, the programmers are themselves hopeless.

[@sadmuppet]

So she's operating under Windows Vista then? :)

[@paulb9769]

You comparing it to America I see.

[@duncanbryson1167]

The image of Westworld (?) came to mind where the robots were repaired at night. They still went rogue and killed the guests.

[@jobell7356]

I was going to ask if she was a BOT which requires an algorithm update 🤣😂 oh heavens what am I saying??? This is our illustrious leader who speaks to NATO, who talks to ....oh boy 😶

[@HeavyMetalBeliever]

The ERG are Fascists in suits, aren't they? If they're not, they may as well be.

[@roberttaylor5841]

We need a General election, yesterday!

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

That would assume that The Tories have a sense of morality, they don't, never have had, either. 😐

[@benji.B-side]

The Tories would bring back Victorian Workhouses if they got the chance. Rees Mogg would wear his Top Hat for the first opening of one. The public are sick of getting crumbs that fall from the banquet table of the rich, Liz and her policies are destined to fail, just like the last 12 years of Conservative policies have failed us. They have this country in a wreck. We need a competent government that will give the public a much better share of the cake.

[@verystripeyzebra]

Though I victoriana times the gentlemen would not stand for an upstart middle class boy wearing a top hat. Mogg isn't as posh as he'd like you to believe, and it terrifies him that you will realise he's from middle class stock. The aristocracy know this. And will never fully accept him, that makes Jacob sad.

[@fionaburnett8578]

💯💯💯

[@bluecatbabe]

The main thing stopping the return of workhouses is that nobody seems to have worked out how to make money out of them.

[@verystripeyzebra]

@@bluecatbabe serco and g4s could do it.

[@Kie77]

"Only one type of diving I can talk about on air". Steady on James. I nearly choked on my morning muffin!

[@LEgoiste]

🤣🤣🤣

[@neilm3955]

Only one type of muffin you can talk about on a KZbin comment section...

[@FionnCr]

Had me licking my lips

[@williamgeorgefraser]

Took me back to my childhood and Muffin the Mule. 🤣

[@peterspowage5752]

Are you sure you've not omitted the "g" ?

[@igzer1]

So Truss wants growth : She should rejoin the EU

[@TheMrrigma]

100% this!

[@dh1380]

Tories would never accept adopting the Euro even if it was for the benefit of the nation.

[@reasonerenlightened2456]

When enough people become poor then change happens.

[@johnglynhughes4239]

Yes: Get Brexit undone!

[@Anakin130506]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@rogerhardy6306]

'I want to make it quite clear,...er...James...that I am absolutely determined to deliver for Britain and to carry out the policies on which I was elected. I want to be quite clear about this.' Yes, dead in the water.

[@duncanbryson1167]

She's going to deliver, deliver, deliver. I'm still waiting for my pizza 😏

[@redpilled-wwg1wga542]

YOU WERE NEVER ELECTED, YOU WERE SELECTED, BY YOUR DONOR MATES!!!!!!!

[@alana8863]

'I'm, uh, absolutely clear, um... on delivery on being clear in my delivery of clarity. I hope that's clear and that I've once again delivered..'

[@regs_j]

Sensibly folks such as myself seen this coming a mile away, the rest of you have been had!

[@31Blaize]

Pretty sure most people in the country saw this coming. The ones that didn't are the Tory party members...

[@hovefactually7505]

Not 'the rest of you' - just the majority of the 20,000 Tory Party members who voted for her. Not that Sunak would be much better. Or Mordaunt. Or Gove ........

[@bereal6590]

@@hovefactually7505 mordant would I think have been worse. She stated charities should take up the slack! Such a horrible b**ch

[@MLB9000]

I saw it coming ten miles away

[@colincampbell4261]

Who's a clever boy?

[@Bobisalive]

When you say I don't think she'll come back from this, remember we used to say that about Boris on an almost daily basis and it took years for him to be finally chucked out.

[@verystripeyzebra]

Ahhh, but loser Johnson was an accomplished and fluent liar, who had got the tories an 80 seat majority.

[@explorer0213]

People liked Boris he has character not so DiM Liz.

[@markwelch3564]

She may keep her job, but she won't come back. The Tories have the choice of losing with Truss as leader, or losing with someone else

[@phil2854]

"If you remember, people were faced with energy bills of £6,000" How could anyone forget? It's the answer she and any Conservative spokesperson gives to ANY question they are asked.

[@peteowen3539]

The £2,500 cap figure is a lie.

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

And all due to Peeyutin. So instead of a £6000 yearly energy bill people now only have to worry about £700 monthly increase in mortgage payments. Clueless imbecile. While her chancellor is a smug chancer (possibly) gaming the markets. And her Home Secretary vile.

[@buk3695]

The 2500 cap is still twice as much as it was before

[@RahTee1]

She leaves out " but we refused to claw any of it back from the fat energy giants, because what I'm about is rewarding my ex employers!"

[@droge192]

People were faced with energy bills of £6,000 *because* of her refusal to implement a true price cap, like the 4% staturory-limited rise that was brought in, in France. (We've had 85% rise since 1 year ago).

[@PainCausingSamurai]

I can't see Truss coming back from this, but I guarantee Boris will try to come back

[@robhills2613]

This is the scenario that Dominic Cummings described - Truss is so monumentally useless (and dangerous to the country) that it would provide an opportunity for the return of Johnson.

[@aldeelollah5732]

During, during covid, not seeing grandma, Boris laughed over it. Who really wants Boris to damage the economy for cashless society and the mark of the beast. Obama.

[@danjames4086]

Yep. It would play perfectly into his Churchill fantasy.

[@tryingmybest9819]

It would be very difficult for Johnson to come back without calling a GE. One discredited PM being replaced with another who was replaced with the first.

[@yananneteoh9818]

@@robhills2613 I heardn Bojo has a .drink problem. Truss ot Boris same

[@terryconstable7972]

They wibbled they wobbled then they we-versed 😂

[@p_sg3449]

They did in Bojo for becoming an electoral liability. She's obviously an even bigger liability but it's difficult to do her in so soon after without looking like the big plonkers they are. Especially as she was voted in by party members. They will have to endure the embarrassment and humiliation until sufficient time has past to get rid of her. But how much damage will she have done by then?

[@oliverlaw02]

Record Halloween costume sales of Liz Truss might lift the UK economy.

[@jjcalvillo]

NO, you’ll give coronaries to peeps at the Halloween party!

[@billybollockhead5628]

Just don’t show up as a pork market.. Cameron might show up.

[@syhillahmed3824]

Mr law I like the one liner lol.

[@oliverlaw02]

@@jjcalvillo It's scary times for pension holders and some mortgage payers.

[@jjcalvillo]

@@oliverlaw02 At some point peeps are going to wise-up and figure out “trickle-down” doesn’t, and realize the New Deal/safety net policies are needed and, hopefully this time, need to be protected.

[@mikestv3782]

You can add to the £43 billion debt, £65 billion Bank of England Government bail out plus the now forgotten £55 billion Track & Trace fiasco plus £4 billion in Back to Business Loan Frauds. In reality the Government debt is not £43 billion it's a minimum of a £163 BILLION & increasing by the day in interest charges!

[@stewartlewis3503]

Mr Jame O'rien, a gratefully desired and received articulate head to the heart of every Humanitarian.

[@mike-xt7qi]

Don’t blame me, I voted for Jeremy Corbyn.

[@EPlTHANY]

Nobody knows who you are

[@haggishighways]

I blame you. Didn't draw your X hard enough

[@vullings1968]

@@EPlTHANY It is Mike! Although not with a capital M

[@nathanu6759]

No you didn’t, you voted for the labour representative in the area.

[@Feynmansmentor]

@@EPlTHANY Corbyn was the correct choice

[@brian5154]

James, would you start to talk about the necessity of PR. Withouit it the UK will just continue to headbang itself to oblivion...........

[@bereal6590]

👏👏👍

[@kleedhamhobby]

Penny Mordaunt was not really 'in the Royal Navy', though she certainly likes to pretend that she was. She was a reservist, and then she was given an honorary rank as a result of her political activities. She never saw active service, though she likes to post pictures of herself in the uniform of her honorary rank. She is basically what is known as a 'Walt', someone who wants to use the armed forces to big themselves up, without having ever actually served... not very popular with those who have actually served!

[@readmycomment3157]

Don't undermine the reserves, thats not fair.

[@Johnboysmudge]

Being a reservist makes you part of the Navy though? Not defending her, but if she got in as a reserve, she would have had to pass the same selection as everyone else wouldn't she?

[@woofpet]

Like Badenoch’s claim to have contributed to a book, only for the author to clarify that by saying she did some photocopying!

[@kleedhamhobby]

@@readmycomment3157 Not trying to undermine the reserves. I have family members who gave a lot as reserves. I also have family members who saw active service, and it's not the same thing. Mordaunt was a Sub-Lieutenant in the reserves... and if she kept saying that, that would be fine. But she likes to post pictures of herself in a Captain's uniform. To which she is also entitled... but on a purely honorary basis. Being given an honorary rank of Captain as a politician, and having put in time in the reserves, with a final rank of Sub-Lieutenant, does not amount to serving as a Captain in the Royal Navy.

[@kt5661]

There's no point trying to backtrack. You said 'she wasn't really in the Royal Navy'. How can she be a 'walt' when it was the navy who gave her the rank..idiot.. Walts are people who have no association with the military at all. Only someone like you who clearly doesn't have a clue can call a reservist and rank holder a Walt. Reservist have fought and died in nearly all our major conflicts. To suggest that reservists are not really members of our armed forces is not only offensive it's ignorant, ill informed and disrespectful.

[@chriscray5922]

She's probably going to sell the NHS

[@readmycomment3157]

Time is against them now, expect a huge smash and grab before they lose power

[@andrewclarke6916]

She's certainly done for if she makes any attempt to cut benefits at a time when many people need them to help get them through this financial crisis. Then again, I wouldn't put anything past this lot.

[@timeslip6914]

Remember Andrew, people on benefits tend not to vote Conservative. She need not pander to, or care about them. The issue that frightens her is the potential backlash from working people who also now rely on a top up with UC just to survive. The working people also will not get any inflation proof rise in their paypacket. Wages have not kept up with the cost of living in decades in real terms. Finally, the Tories have introduced more tax rises and new taxes in living memory. Remember Osborne's 'pasty tax'?..People will respond when kicked too hard too often.

[@fishmanfairclough7530]

@@timeslip6914 Too many people on benefits don't vote and some do vote conservative, working in a manual unskilled job I have been very surprised by the number of conservative supporters in that workplace. Given that a lot of them would be better off if Labour's planned budget was implemented it is unfathomable that people support ideal ologies that work completely counter to their own wellbeing.

[@timeslip6914]

@@fishmanfairclough7530 There are some non Tory voters who don't vote for any party agreed, but I think some non Labour voters fear the policy on immigration, which has been, undeniably a major bone of contention when the subject of illegal , dare I say, 'boat people' are concerned.

[@yashtiwari117]

Atleast Sunak was intelligent and articulate. It's crazy how she only needed the "Sunak's wife is a billionaire who pays her taxes in India" to win than any credible knowledge of handling an economy.

[@ricmac954]

Not that that I'm a fan of any Conservative - I'm not - but if that *is* what sunk Sunak, it only serves to illustrate the inherent racism of Conservatives and conservatives, flag-sh*ggers all.

[@wolfen210959]

To be fair, he didn't cover himself in glory, the longer it went on, the more desperate he became. Truss was consistently bad, Sunak was inconsistent, and at times he made her look sensible.

[@GraemeRoberts]

Articulate I'll give you.

[@sufmeister786]

Well even if Mrs Sunak was paying UK tax, with the policy Liz Truss just did a U-Turn on, it would have bought in a tidy extra sum of money with the scrapping of the extra 5% tax for the billionaire. So using that as an argument was ridiculous when she would have been putting extra money, literally millions, back into her pocket even is she was a UK tax payer. She was always going to be helping the richest with all the extra benefits with taxation as well as bankers bonuses, no windfall tax, lower corporation tax, higher cap on energy as it’s still a 98% increase as opposed to 156% which isn’t even half the reduction. Plus she said for average households it will be capped at no more then £2,500 so that isn’t everyone. The Middle class is being obliterated so we will end up with two groups, the poor and the rich. No scales of in-between.

[@runthomas]

sunak never stood a chance in the uk, he is of indian origin and white people dont like that ..its that simple.they would vote in the devil himself , as long as he is white...in fact they already did...boris johnson

[@timelwell7002]

I certainly *hope* that Liz Truss has the shortest-lived premiership in UK political history. She deserves no less.

[@roderickscott7429]

by midnight december 14 i make it, Canning i heard was 101 days.

[@gillb9222]

What sickens me is that she will probably still get paid a ridiculous amount of money when she goes

[@chatham43]

.....sure you do Timmy boy.....

[@ChrissyDargue]

As an aside, I have never understood this fuss they make over bankers' bonuses. At the risk of sounding thick, are we short of bankers? If so, why do we need to attract them with even larger bonuses when the ones in place are so huge? Do these elite few carry magic beans to fix us? And if I was a banker, looking for a job, the UK doesn't seem appealing for a dozen other more compelling reasons than a bonus. Don't we need more nurses than bankers? When will we start caring about people just as much as we care about money? Feels like society in general is circling the drain and we keep making the plughole bigger...

[@bandit2048]

Agreed - perhaps we should ban tax for nurses and doctors which effectively would give them a decent pay rise and attract more.

[@lukestclair2514]

@@bandit2048 maybe nurses but not doctors I work in removals and I have just moved a doctor from £1.2million house to £1.8 million house, nowhere near London I might add so I don't agree that doctors need more money nurses yes doctors no!!!

[@sevecc939]

Interesting what is said about culture wars. Think people finally recognise it for the distraction and attempts to polarise that they are. I recall working somewhere with appalling conditions and we hated the management, but when things were better staff fought amongst themselves. Think it is so bad the same is happening here.

[@Matt-cz6ti]

27 days since Liz Truss and Keir Starmer faced each other for the first, and at the time of writing only, time 27 days since Tory MPs came away from that thinking things would be alright. That she’d acquitted herself well. That she’d be a problem for Starmer 27 days And how much has changed

[@kevinsmarts9953]

Thing is in that first PMQs it was all "Congrats on becoming PM" and a only 3 questions from Starmer. He couldn't call her out on to much as she'd only been in the job 5 minutes and hadn't even made her speech declaing intentions. Yes, she did OK but it was barely a warm up and her line about how Labour tax everyone wouldn't have held up if there'd been time for Starmer to push back. It takes a few back and forths before they get off the script and that's where she will always struggle.

[@CG-hj1cu]

Ye she's completely fooked it!

[@diegolove173]

She;s done for and it's only week 3 hahahahah Sunak warned her over and over and she did not listen

[@michaelpower4372]

But truss keeps saying she's a person that listens.

[@biggusdickus5986]

@@michaelpower4372 Yes she is but she's just not listening to the public, just her own masters voices she's a mouthpiece for the truly moneyed men.

[@michaelpower4372]

@@biggusdickus5986 Yes she should be investigated why she done it.

[@djpeekay25]

@@michaelpower4372 listens to voices in her head?

[@michaelpower4372]

@@djpeekay25 Sure sign of a sociopath.

[@arkadybron1994]

There is a serious problem in the UK and in other countries as well no doubt, but for years now, there has been an almost endless merry go round of talentless, incompetent, men and women moving through the board rooms of this countries major businesses. These people join companies whose business is something they know absolutely nothing about, they stay just long enough to be acrue huge ammounts of money, and then move on to another company, before they can completey decimate the fortunes of the company they are leaving. And the reason that I bring this up here, is because the same mentality and behaviour is also prevalent in Westminster. Especially in the Tory party, who's raison d'etre it seems, is to protect the idiots mentioned above.

[@Ste2023]

Well said

[@dakariszulu]

Irony of her saying to listen to people, whilst not listening to the interviewer.

[@pimmspimms5462]

GET HER OUT! How dare she target and vilify our most vulnerable people. How dare she make the poor fund tax cuts for the rich. How dare she plunge us back into austerity to pay for the £65 BILLION she has just added to our national debt. She is inept, cruel, unfit and needs to go.

[@fionaburnett8578]

I 💯 agree

[@wayneperry7413]

Australian welfare payments just increased in September by about 6%, as a result of current inflation figures, plus every year for the last few years there has been extra one-off cost of living payments. It’s not great of course, but it sure is a lot better than many, many countries.

[@concordep2504]

Phil, I feel for we have a person like you in our family and it isn’t fair. Stay strong, rest when you can and try to not let all this other stress make you Iller. I hope things get better for you.

[@MichaelSmith-yn3ec]

She also just keeps banging on about what she's done about the energy cap, but our tariff ended Wednesday and the best we've been offered anywhere is £580 a month that's 6960 for the year. Although we've got my mum living with us now we're still only 3 adults and 2 kids so just over th "typical household". Her trademark cap is a lie, why should we believe a word that comes out of her mouth?

[@brachiator1]

Liz Truss talking about fixing the energy problem is like Boris Johnson falsely claiming again and again that BREXIT let him quickly develop the Covid vaccine.

[@audreybarnes6527]

She claimed she would fix the broken energy markets.

[@wolfen210959]

@@audreybarnes6527 Well, she's doing that by paying the energy giants with taxpayers money, so the "fix" is in. lol

[@harveybrown37]

@@audreybarnes6527 Whilst being paid by them earlier in life, for her election campaign and no doubt looking forward to perks later on.

[@jeffwooliscroft6600]

"When people show you who they are, believe them" - Maya Angelou

[@bustedfender]

Exactly why we need PR to put an end to this destabilising political pendulum.

[@alana8863]

Not much of a pendulum if it only keeps swinging between the Right and the Extreme Right. But totally agree with you over PR.

[@modestproposal9114]

'He's a young Conservative ", and "he's a lovely bloke". Two incompatible statements.

[@franknemeth7430]

James O'Brien is a wonderful break from the G.O.P. lunacy in America .

[@andrewhodgkins2292]

Don't kid yourself. I have a friend who is a staunch supporter and a rabid fan of the mini budget. Mind you he was a fan of the last disaster too and still talks about him in hushed tones. I despair of people like that.

[@markwelch3564]

As long as people like that are a minority, civilisation will survive. Leave them ranting in the corner and talk to normal people instead 🙂

[@johnthompson16]

Always a pleasure to listen and learn.

[@philippschwartzerdt3431]

The energy package - what a gift… - or how do you call the money that has to be paid back with interest? 🤔

[@spartacusforlife1508]

Anyone who replaces her has the political shelf life of milk🤣

[@Jimmie16]

I hope you're correct but take into consideration how long they allowed Johnson to carry on his insanity.

[@harveybrown37]

‘We’ve fixed that (the energy package)….You and your kids will pay for it 😂

[@peterw4338]

It's not just the economy, the local farmer in Hampshire voted Brexit and Tory, the town's people were mainly remainers. The local farmers wonder why they lost customers.

[@bren106]

The rudder has fell off but she's still full speed towards the iceberg straight ahead.

[@markfaulkner5269]

Wow, I've found a huge echo chamber here (don't you guys get board with agreeing with yourselves).

[@TomRipley7350]

Exactly. It’s the Stepford champagne socialists.

[@kevrussell5972]

I get the impression that they don’t really know what they are doing

[@aislingmcdonald6778]

Hopefully she and her government won't last beyond 2022!

[@terryloftus8626]

How did the blue rinse brigade not notice her ineptitude,WE could ALL see it,but how enjoyable.All l heard before the contest was the unbelievable talent they had in cabinet,mind you it was James unCleverly who said it,so . . .

[@peterlorimer3552]

Oh they heard it alright. But then they spotted the foreign looking johnnie who was running against her.

[@j.j.1064]

I listened to the Braverman speech and tried to get to my destination without throwing up over the steering wheel. It was unadulterated undiluted race baiting and asylum seeker bashing and wanting to take away ECHR safeguards using channel crossings as cover. All punctuated by applauding swivel eyed delegates. It was something that wouldn't have been out of place at a Ukip rally. If you thought Patel was bad omg.

[@paulslater9061]

Yes she's shown the Tory agenda for what it is

[@fiddell69]

Cannot blame the Tories. It was not so much the aristocrats, but the UK commoners who often elect conservative governments who abuse them.

[@erick3614]

In Liz we... REGRET!

[@dougcaddell6577]

Naturalise Bernie Sanders, put him in charge of the Labour Party and watch the votes flow 👍

[@anthonygrayson7753]

These criminals need bring down! Starmer's first priorities, in either a coalition, or majority position, must be legislating for PR and a codified written constitution. Only then can we start unpicking this UTTER, UTTER disaster!🙈

[@zannfilm9645]

"I'm determined to progress with this gross plan". At least that what it sounded like to me.

[@cathlaurs9754]

zannfilm: Me too! Freudian slip or did we hear mishear her?

[@wolfen210959]

Me too, but no doubt her supporters will claim that her words were "misrepresented".

[@luftwaffle3451]

You're absolutely correct. She's toast.

[@graememorris270]

Are we just ignoring James has the biggest cup I have ever seen ? 🤣. Totally agree with everything james says 👏

[@DCFunBud]

She’s an unpleasant type of woman, isn’t she?

[@simongb7897]

As much as I want to laugh at it all, I'd just be laughing at my own and along with it the countrys demise.

[@Anthonyacg138]

‘Coming back’ suggests she’s gone away! But she’s still in post!!

[@64kgb]

I wonder how much Boris was behind all this.......🤔

[@guiwhiz]

"I'm not going mad am I..." So welcome to the club. Here in America so many of us independents just keep asking ourselves that very same question for 10 years around our Republican party's so called 'plan' for governing.

[@Kaltagstar96]

I noticed the little scrolling text about Suella Braverman's bonkers and bigoted refugee "Blanket Asylum Plan". I'm surprised that James hasn't brought that up; I know it's not the main point but how is it possible that the Tories appointed a worse Home Secretary than Priti Patel??

[@yymediaprod]

Yikes scary stuff, thanks for telling 👍🏽 I'm certain her pathetic purposals breaks international law and be another huge blunder 🤦‍♂️

[@juliekelly900]

So right about the daily mail trash paper

[@andycap1188]

Don't think he'll cheer up when Starmer gets in ! Our wholly negative media are like a cancer, destroying the country from the inside.

[@redlightmax]

Does this mean the Truss honeymoon is over?

[@calumbishop7082]

For it to be over would assume there was one to begin with

[@allip4226]

Not sure if it even had time to be consummated... we want an annulment!

[@ihurtmyarm]

This must be the worst honeymoon ever! It doesn't bode well for the rest of the marriage

[@smellslikethinice1107]

Oh James, James James, you're a very intelligent, integrous man...but you don't know the British public do you. We are a nation of passive, cup in hand , cap doffers. We all "know our place", and if we don't, we are ostracised and ridiculed. Sad really, the slow puncture we've endured for literally decades.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

General election now!

[@TheMrrigma]

Hi Liz, thanks for coming!

[@harvestmoon-k1446]

Its like putting a 'kid' in charge

[@cujoyyc4453]

Government funding of the energy bailout is a de facto subsidy to the energy industry. This needs to be talked about everywhere. People need to learn this essential point.

[@markwelch3564]

Yep. We are all taking out a loan so they can keep the surprise profits bonus A surprise caused by Putin's invasion increasing demand. They are basically war profiteering...

[@simonevans343]

How sad that the pensioners were willing to tag along with the low rate of pension. The price to the government is the tripple lock. When the rate of inflation was stagnent and cost so little its not threatened . As soon as they need the protection of the tripple lock , theres talk of removing it . Shameful

[@jimmyrecard5056]

If she’s willing to do more U turns then we need to keep putting pressure on her

[@cliffb2454]

l am 60 years old and I've voted Conservative most of my life. I've never voted Labour. If there was an election tomorrow and Liz Truss was the Tory leader I would vote Labour. The current leadership are either idiots or have no regard for everyday people. I'm worried that it may be the later, which sickens me.

[@berniebarclay2183]

Vote Green

[@biggusdickus5986]

Cliff they have always been like that, but at least you've become aware of it, better late than never, I'm 65 by the way and a lifelong Labour voter, I'll even vote for Starmer though l don't like him and they aren't a real Labour party proper. But then I'd vote for the Downing St cat to do a better job than these power seeking numpties

[@cliffb2454]

@@biggusdickus5986 I disagree.

[@davidrose213]

Kwarteng says we have been through a period of ‘slow managed decline’. That’s a great endorsement of their former boss, Johnson. They were both in his Cabinet but didn’t complain then about the ‘slow managed decline’. Johnson constantly said our economy was booming and the best in the G7. He wasn’t lying, was he.

[@bluecatbabe]

12 years of the Tories.

[@davidrose213]

@@bluecatbabe Hi Sarah - thanks for your comment - needless to say, you’ve nailed it Best wishes

[@globaleye8]

The James O'Brien Show - the reason your radio has an off button 😁

[@martinobrien7110]

As Rory Stewart said Kwasi was a wrong un even by the time he got to Eton , just wouldn't change his mind even when proved to be wrong .

[@readmycomment3157]

Thats not quite what he said

[@martinobrien7110]

@@readmycomment3157 Which Part ?

[@readmycomment3157]

@@martinobrien7110 I don't think he said he was a wrongun

[@JK-zx3go]

Tory arrogance gets the Tories in the end, ever single time.

[@robertgil1000]

She is Ambivalent and a PM can not be so .....plus she only cares about the rich ain't no doubt about it!!!!!!!

[@chrismonks592]

What's quite interesting is that even the conservatives I know have turned against her. She can't even get support from her own party supporters

[@LAD907]

don't forget Lizzys leaked tape. it's all relevant to her crusade

[@blue_jay31]

I really do hope your right !

[@akrills]

Going, going, gone... (That'll be a headline in one of the newspapers soon enough.)

[@clivejohnson6468]

The head civil servant in the treasury - Liz and Kamikaze didn't want to listen to him, so they sacked him.