Liz Truss' Collapse: A Timeline of Chaos

[@johnnycanuck250]

My sister is an International student in the UK. The crash of the pound coincided with her tuition being due, it saved her $7,000 CAD

[@tomowens1571]

Unless you transfered more money for later I don't know what you're bragging about

[@auldfouter8661]

Her fees were 70,000 CAD ?

[@johnnycanuck250]

@@auldfouter8661 Cambridge Law is expensive for international students

[@MrMatek13]

@@auldfouter8661 International students pay way more than home students, foreign students is where a lot of the money comes from for the university

[@timlamiam]

i was an international student for 2 years, brexit vote tanked the pound in the summer in between. I was beyond happy being like, 20% richer overnight lol

[@Lyendith]

Elizabeth II’s last official act was to appoint Liz Truss as Prime Minister. Charles III’s first official act was to accept Liz Truss’s resignation. Truly, she left her mark on British history.

[@kingace6186]

sheesh

[@thedukeofyewaland]

she's bad omen

[@Helperbot-2000]

truly a politician of all time

[@taskdon769]

To think the queen started from Churchill and ended with Truss, both are now in the history book, well, for very different reasons...

[@faelger9473]

Her rule SURVIVED the LONGEST REIGNING monarch of the uK^^

[@Neion8]

I think we can all admire Truss for being a truly revolutionary politician; she actually managed to overthrow herself - and it record time!

[@injest1928]

If a new prime minister made it their sole aim to ruin their country and their party in as short a time as possible I doubt they could do so half as quickly as Truss. I'm genuinely impressed at her disaster speed run.

[@minoarno7415]

disaster speed run any percent xD like honestly I would have never thought that the pound would freefall like that lol

[@WhichDoctor1]

the thing is that it would be impossible for one person to inflict this magnitude of damage by themselves no matter how much they wanted to. The only reason she could achieve this remarkable feat is because she had a whole cadre of other tory politicians, newspapers and "economic" think tanks surrounding her and backing her up at every stage. Until the inevitable consequence of what they've been campaigning for came to pass of course

[@LizardGuy50]

Any% WR right here

[@michaelathanasiou2030]

Our inflation is better than any other country in Europe ( so why is this Labour benefit scrounger lying)

[@shiftedprograms86]

@@minoarno7415 If you crouch when you fall, you fall faster. Speedrunning tip right there

[@jackvalior]

One need to remember, she spent like a good week or two not working cause the queen funeral. So it is less time than this. Truly epic speedrun skill

[@Samir12357]

I still can't believe someone could lose about 10 seats per day.... If causing disasters were an art Liz is the Picasso of it

[@jeanmyers1787]

By the way as a Liberal MP she was anti monarchist

[@ジェジェガロン]

Can't wait to see her in next year's GDQ

[@unitrader403]

It was part of her Speedrun strat. She didnt stay stil, she was building up Speed.

[@edwarddormer1103]

Liz Truss speedrunning PM.wad Nightmare any%

[@choleraphd7702]

>gets elected as Prime Minister > kills the Queen >destroys the country >claims her lifetime government support >refuses to elaborate >leaves

[@jeremysmith54565]

@@KatherineSparkes who said that though?

[@zaptosmedia4707]

Spoiler: Liz Truss was paid by Boris Johnson to make him look like a pretty competent Prime Minister.

[@SessDMC]

I doubt that, although I wouldn't be surprised if Boris supporters voted for her for a similar outcome knowing Truss's policies came from 55 Tufton St. and not from 10 Downing St.

[@cockneyse]

Yep, it's all a plan to enable his return... (A big of a joke BUT actually it IS certain the Tufton St always intended to replace her with Johnson once he was rehabilitated and memories had dimmed) ... But it wasn't intended to be SO BAD!!

[@theuglykwan]

She's the best liberal democrat in a while...

[@vincilo8835]

But compared to Liz Boris does look like a pretty competent Prime Minister.

[@Bolsonaro_em_Haia]

@@vincilo8835 yeah. Impressive in its own way.

[@flagflow1232]

>Steps in >Single handedly annihilates her own party >Single handedly cripples country's economy >Refuses to elaborate

[@Geode_Raptor]

>leaves

[@wjirc2697]

>kills the queen

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

Not sure about the single handedly

[@user-id9bn1ic9v]

libertarians in government!!! let’s go!!!

[@kousand9917]

I support Liz Truss because she ruined the UK.

[@k.l.7968]

Looked at the date this was posted: "19 hours ago". Looking at the first news report I could find of Truss resigning: "18 hours ago". The timing of this video is BRILLIANT! 😄

[@markhumble7608]

I believe she is the best prime minster we have ever had because she managed to bury the queen,the pound,the tory party,one chancellor and the UK government in less than 1 month.

[@Sevidical2]

She'd make a great French monarch :D

[@petercook2787]

I agree with most of what you say, hard not to really, it's incontrovertible. But the comment about the late Queen is an unecessary, un-funny and counter-productive cheap shot. It tarnishes your piece and you.

[@jamiehughes5573]

@@petercook2787 nah queen saw what truss was doing so she said "Nah , I ain't having any of this"

[@sagemybrain6740]

@@petercook2787 We're defending colonizers? Whats new honestly

[@TheCommunistColin]

@@petercook2787 It's been almost two months, you can stop pretending to be sad now.

[@c.w.k.n.5117]

Truss vs Sunak was like the difference between telling people what they want to hear versus what they need to hear.

[@okman9684]

People want to listen sweet poems rather than bitter lesson

[@GEliteG]

People just wanted something that looks like them.

[@PhysicsGamer]

Sunak isn't even that great a candidate! The Tories have drained themselves of literally dozens of prospective cabinet ministers and PMs to the point where the remaining candidates they can put forward pretty much top out at him. At some point the Tories have to be willing to call a general election if only to find a way to "restock" and rebuild. Imagine Labour got to choose the next PM before that - who would the Tories even have in their shadow cabinet?

[@wilnerolivier7971]

@@PhysicsGamer Tories are a colossal mess!!

[@emerasude]

this is unfair against the people, because this was literally a government reshuffle done inside the chambers

[@rorypaul153]

Rare day when US politics actually look remarkably stable

[@markshamp3699]

The queen always did love her little jokes, and croaking right after truss won was one of her best.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

My girlfriend thinks truss killed the queen and trashed the economy on purpose. She's not sure who put her up to it.

[@dhritidutta6231]

🤣🤣😂

[@Dardobul]

Plot twist: the queen just pretended to die to get away from truss

[@martinfenton1275]

It would have looked suspicious if Truss had disappeared right after topping the Queen.

[@MohitKumar-nc6kt]

Guess that makes Truss the funeral prime minister

[@Deepak_Thapa]

"I'm a fighter, not a quitter" then quits next day. She was really good at U turns.

[@Neion8]

Vehicle manufacturers have been closely watching these latest events to determine if Truss'spolicies can be used as a revolutionary technique to reduce traffic accidents; if sensors on the front of the car detect a collision about to happen, an audio clip of her talking is played and the car will immediately U-turn even if it breaks the laws of physics.

[@passiveaggressive6175]

She’s not even original enough to come up with that quote. She stole it from Peter Mandelson, another lazy, uninspiring grifter

[@seneca983]

Maybe she fought and lost.

[@oldvlognewtricks]

She was a fighter - She was just an Anthony Eden sort of fighter

[@michaelandrews4783]

She was fighting to increase her government pension and won by being prime minister briefly.

[@Micamicamico]

There's not much I want in life. A house, a car, and a decent job. It's getting annoyingly difficult to do this

[@tophat593]

Truss' approval rating matching Prince Andrews just says it all. She had no support in the House so she promised ministerial jobs to members who would never have been let near any government responsibility in normal times. The resulting incompetence is actually quite impressive.

[@plainText384]

how do you go from "best prime minister" to "at least she's not Prince Andrew" in one month? That has to be on the "ruin your reputation any%" speedrunning leader board.

[@spike178]

Truss should be negative -100 make Prince Andrew look good then lol.

[@wiryantirta]

Let this be a warning to the world what happens when you elect anything libertard. I don't think being popular with conservatives should be taken as anything with any positive qualities.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

liz truss did to britain what prince andrew did to children

[@luigicampo4008]

@@Ass_of_Amalek I didn't know children could have their own national economies.

[@blackatom4957]

Rishi : It's not gonna work, it's a fairytale. Truss : I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts.

[@enurii]

Don’t corrupt lovely Alexander Rybak 😭

[@ILikedGooglePlus]

Rybak for Prime Minister???

[@enurii]

@@ILikedGooglePlus Yes he should start a party with Larry the Cat, they’d win

[@brandon3872]

Truss: I don't know what I was doing... when suddenly we fell apart.

[@Snowshowslow]

🤣🤣

[@tun444]

bro i went to check the approval ratings and i found out she resigned 💀💀💀

[@TheAllRounderMemes]

Liz Truss wasn't all that bad... My girlfriend made fun of me for not lasting long in bed, which made me very sad. But then, I looked at the news and saw Liz Truss lasting even shorter as PM, so I was no longer sad. Thank you Liz!

[@franciscosoares2440]

Looool

[@franciscosoares2440]

That was cursed af

[@yxx_chris_xxy]

Dude, your girlfriend knows nothing. If you last longer than 45 days in bed, you are godlike.

[@logannoble6707]

@@yxx_chris_xxy I mean thats a little too long like I think u got sum issues lastin that long

[@yxx_chris_xxy]

@@logannoble6707 Certainly, damage after 3 hours, usually. Here amputation surely is the only choice.

[@AR-zr1om]

The rate she's going through MPs I'm genuinely concerned by next August I'll be chancellor

[@Harshil2456]

🤣🤣

[@Kevin-hg1be]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@PlanetTrendy]

local metalheads moshing like "See you in the cabinet"

[@jeanmyers1787]

😂

[@FictionHubZA]

Go for it bro.

[@Timeyy]

Wow, Truss really just beat the PM failure speedrun world record by like 60 days. Impressive.

[@somerelativleyuninterestin4763]

Wanna know the worst part? Despite inflation being revealed to be 10.1% this week, the bank having to stop bailing out the government, the home sec getting fired, the chief whip resigning and hundreds of calls for Truss to go, the £ still hasn’t crashed abnormally this week. This means that despite this week being one of the worst of this year and a week that’d, in most countries, be a governments make or break week, investors and traders haven’t reacted or run away. They weren’t fazed by this at all. Just think about that for a second; the same people that start rewriting their wills every single time someone at the FED uses the loo, didn’t react to the literal real time collapse of a government. It’s insane, it’s unprecedented and it proves just how little they expect of the UK and the tories after the last few months

[@avibank]

Lol well said.

[@habibullahas-safaasabahsha365]

Well, they will be there to pick up the pieces

[@cyrneco]

I think the saviour of the pound is the fact that so many powerful entities (both polities and privates) hold a lot of pound and don't want it to crash too much. Maybe wrong of course as I'm not an economist but it seems to me that the dynamic that keeps the dollar afloat in any and every situation applies, writ small, to the pound too.

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@cyrneco The Pound used to be able to buy the same goods at the same rates (or better rates) as the constantly-inflating Euro.

[@cyrneco]

@@JoshSweetvale Yes. But, if I'm correct, the Euro hasn't climbed much anymore. So what do you mean in this context?

[@budomk9299]

She literally just quit?!?! This video was spot on

[@elvangulley3210]

Orda orda

[@darlenefraser3022]

I think it was a quit or get tossed type of situation

[@TheCimbrianBull]

@@elvangulley3210 we miss the Honorable John Berwick.

[@prasantpandey4057]

Sunak: Provides reasons and their effects Truss: I reject that

[@getnohappy]

What I hope (possibly a naïve hope) is people will remember this: Truss' budget is what a fully armed and operational modern Tory government looks like. It's what their donors and wealthy members (

[@cyrneco]

You are absolutely right! I'm shocked by all the cons railing against truss when she is trying to apply the nutter randian recipes that they have been proposing for years! Do folk actually listen when right winger cons talk about 'small state', 'tax cuts' etc?

[@JoshSweetvale]

Forgetting doesn't happen in a void. Lies make it happen. Lies on print. Lie-bel if you will.

[@zhoubaidinh403]

Mess with Putin and Xi at your own peril...

[@GeneralBlackNorway]

They didn't show you who they trully are, because they tried to keep up the alure by not cutting spending, which is why this shit show took place. A true libertarian would not struggle to cut the budget along with tax cuts. The problem she was continuing big government while cutting taxes, forcing them to borrow more money to fund the government, in an environment where the central bank is tightening the money supply. If they had been strong in their convictions they would have cut spending instead of raising taxes. They simply don't have the balls to reduce the state as they know it's unpopular among the people as too many are dependent on state funded wellfare.

[@kippertrace5808]

Don't you think this is all pre planned? These people don't do anything without thoroughly thinking it through. Another big distraction so you don't look this way at what's really going on.

[@self1sch]

Sometimes I'm depressed and don't really know how I should deal with these terrible times we live in. But then I can go to bed and smile because I know at least I'm not Liz Truss right now.

[@budomk9299]

Yes and yes 😅

[@travelwell6049]

She is an evil doer and deserves worse than she has received.

[@reddragon3163]

Hate to break it to you, but after next week, she'll be put on the PMs retirement plan and be paid a great sum of money for life, she get crazy book deals as the most stressed and shortest PM in history and then she do a round in the speaker circuit. She's gonna make a killing selling her connections too, this while those who lived under her will suffer.

[@SuperCatacata]

IDK, I'd gladly take her salary for doing absolutely nothing of value.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

The money is worth the humiliation, the ego would cushion it anyway

[@NoorSkullz]

I feel bad for those in 70 years who have to learn all of this in school.

[@HamishBanish]

In 70 years from now it will be illegal to mention the pre-Islamic Britain.

[@Winterx69]

As if.

[@nathangaytano1431]

Liz Truss's time as Prime Minister, feels like a hoi4 mod focus tree in which someone is self sabotaging as Truss to try to get a really easy Labour playthru.

[@Username-je7of]

I'm glad that I wasn't the only one with that thought, but I'm terrified of the idea of multiple people thinking that way. Seriously though, this feels almost exactly like the funni administration in "That One Mod™," where the whole point is to make it possible for the opposition to ever win again.

[@presstodelete1165]

Its amazing how many of the conditions of the 1970s that lead to our joining the EU seem to be returning. From the cold war to rolling blackouts, not forgetting industrial relations, economic instability and changes of leadership.

[@maalikserebryakov]

uk is finished

[@loowyatt6463]

Being part of the EU wouldn't help with any of the issues we have. Even if we were still part of the EU every single problem would be just as bad. Rejoining rn would actually cause more problems as well

[@omppusolttu5799]

@@maalikserebryakov yeah no, it's *staggeringly* hard to collapse a nation, especially a developed economy with not a lot of social instability. Is the current government finished? Yeah they'll be tossed out of office sooner or later. Is the entire system of the United Kingdom done? Nope.

[@hahahasan]

@@loowyatt6463 I don't follow. What negative consequences are there for rejoining the EU?

[@tanker00v25]

@@loowyatt6463 being part of the EU would definitely help the British economy which would definitely help most of these issue, get your facts straight

[@Reaga85]

Well done on partnering with Brilliant for this vid, it's probably the best thing that can be said about today's events

[@S7E_Siriel-Privat]

Destroy your party's reputation any% speedrun world record:

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

She's going for the 100% speedrun 🤣

[@budomk9299]

@@mrcaboosevg6089 and.... she did it

[@klausbrinck2137]

The Tories never had a reputation. They just had enough rich donors, in order to buy enough votes of british citizens (them, on the other side, not known for their extraordinary feeling of honour/price, but rather for their extra low price).

[@rhydderc127]

Isn’t it also true that some of Sunak’s supporters lent their support to Truss because she was seen as a better final opponent for him to face than Mordaunt. Anyway, Truss is a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, demonstrating perfectly how dangerous a combination of extreme incompetence and arrogance can be.

[@218kq]

Does mordaunt current position does have significant power to the cabinet? I'm not brit and didn't know how much leader of the house truly are. It seems she was one of closest truss colleague.

[@rhydderc127]

@@218kq I think it’s impossible to say right now - all we do know is it’s utter chaos and has been for weeks, and any Tory MP with an ounce of integrity should be pushing for a general election as it’s 100% clear that’s what the public want and what would be best for the country.

[@calumbishop7082]

I mean I think it was more a case of 4th place Suella Braverman pretty much backing Truss in the immediate aftermath of Braverman's elimination that led to Truss (barely mind you) finishing second in the MP's vote. Truss owed her premiership in part to Braverman's supporters. Braverman is now gone, after resigning/being fired yesterday from the position of Home Secretary and dropping a grenade of a resignation letter on the way out. I mean former Truss supporters being angry makes sense. Truss and Kwasi didn't even tell the fellow cabinet members of some of the more extreme parts of her mini-budget, namely the parts that led the markets going into free fall. Truss thought herself above her cabinet, above her MP's, above her party, above the markets, above the OBR, above the majority financial establishment, above the majority of her party members and above the British people. Liz Truss is probably the most arrogant PM this country has ever seen, and it backfired in her face spectacularly pissing every off in the process.

[@rhydderc127]

@@calumbishop7082 it’s the most spectacular blow up I can remember in all the time I’ve been aware of politics (which goes back as far as Thatcher). Just stunning arrogance; I put myself in Starmer’s shoes yesterday - having to stand across from the weirdly smug look on her face, I would have been livid. Surely it’s all over by tomorrow? But I kind of hope she stubbornly clings on until a GE is the only answer!

[@tomowens1571]

Literally a terrible example of that effect completely irrelevant in fact

[@discman15]

Hello from the US, I followed these events bit by bit from our side but I had trouble fitting it all together, I thank you for making it accessible

[@ipoopedmyself3981]

It appears that your video made Truss finally resign. Thank you

[@globalistgamer6418]

LOL just learned this from scrolling the comments. You can't turn away from the Truss show for a moment.

[@Goatcha_M]

I'm still calling it suspicious that the Queen died less than 48 hours after meeting with Truss.

[@Bobby-xr4bo]

She probably gave up and begged God to take her quickly

[@NLaertes]

She definitely knew...it was time for Charles to clean up this mess she thought

[@Nohandleentered]

If all the bad stuff happened that quickly isn’t it likely there were some deeper structural problems that need to be addressed

[@aliksanon6491]

Damn uk really is being hit hard by the trusscession

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

That term is PERFECTION.

[@razman95x]

At least Liz managed to secure 115k annually for herself indefinitely

[@rohitbagai3358]

Lol

[@JewTube001]

Guess she just did it for the pension.

[@JourneyTHistory]

@@JewTube001 that's not even the pension

[@ledues3336]

Can you explain please? I'm not British

[@razman95x]

@@ledues3336 state pension for prime ministers is roughly 115k annually - many are calling for her to turn it down but no official word yet.

[@derekrequiem4359]

> Become PM > Queen dies > Tanks economy > Government ministers quit left and right > Historically low ratings for party and self > Resigns > Refuses to elaborate

[@KatherineSparkes]

And ultimately loses her seat in the 2024 GB General Election. That is a spoiler alert.

[@that1apple]

If I had a nickel for every British prime minister resigned not too long after TLDR made a video as to why their unpopular I’d have two nickel which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice

[@draum8103]

I still don't get it why resigning is so popular for British prime ministers...hasn't it been like four tory PM's in a row now resigning in like 1 or 2 years? Or months in this case, lol...

[@kingace6186]

If I had a dollar for every British Prime Minister that couldn't finish the job (until their term ended or got voted out) I would have 17 dollars... which isn't a lot of cash but that's a lot of Prime Ministers!!

[@Potatotenkopf]

Year of the four PM's let's gooooo

[@gamermapper]

@@kingace6186 if that's not a lot of dollars but that is a lot of pounds in the UK economy today lol

[@kingace6186]

@@gamermapper LMFAOOO. Savage.

[@antoniasimeon9198]

Truss should do the right thing and call a general election to put the tories out of misery

[@218kq]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a convention in the uk for called a ge if the majority have changed their leadership? To get the legitimacy in power.

[@rhydderc127]

It’s genuinely the best option for the tories too - the chaos is only going to get worse from here on out (whoever replaces Truss is also going to be hated by 2/3rds of the party, because their party is torn to shreds right now), and if they step aside they get to blame the coming financial and energy catastrophes on Labour, and it’s gets them out of the brexit corner they’ve painted themselves into too - they can just claim brexit would have been great, if only Labour hadn’t messed it up.

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

It'll help the Tories in the long run, Labour will cock up eventually same as every government has and the Tories ten years down the line will have sorted the party out and offer hope. The Tories simply can't win the next election no matter what happens so there's no point in delaying it, give Labour a chance or some coalition... I voted Tory and honestly if they keep going like this they're going to completely destroy the party

[@bassetts1899]

@@mrcaboosevg6089 it seems like UK politics is a constant cycle of each party making a complete disaster of the country, and the next party coming in 10 years later to mop up the mess (and get to work on their own disaster)

[@lowercasehorse2363]

@@bassetts1899 how did brown make a complete disaster of the country? He seemed to have an OK response to a bad outside event

[@ln14517]

I woke up to this video and then an hour later she resigned. What a strange time for the UK.

[@TLDRnews]

So! We started work on this video at the beginning of the week, after seeing comments from people (especially those outside the UK) who were left confused how Truss had collapsed quite so quickly. We wanted to provide a timeline of events (this video) but clearly a lot has changed in just the last 24 hours. The video is still totally accurate, but if you were hoping for more detail about the most recent events then apologies that wasn’t included in this video. However… the good news is that we've recorded an emergency episode of our podcast Truss Issues where we run through all of the latest developments. You can watch it linked below... Either on the TLDR Podcasts KZbin channel: kzbin.info Or listen to the podcast… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/truss-issues/id1643675111 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3msSDmF7TF00QXWLJW5bs4?si=86ce1f574a8f44be RSS: rss.art19.com/truss-issues Or just search in your favourite podcast app

[@BIGJXXX]

It is time that say that TRUSS was elected because SUNAK isnt WHITE???

[@theukdave2433]

I know you guys must be crazy busy churning out all the (good) content you do, but by about halfway through this vid, there's at least 3 instances of numbers said not matching numbers on screen 😕

[@leejohnstone4663]

Us Brits should vote for the next prime minister. Liz Truss and only Tory candidates campaign for the job. Call it the Prime Minister general election or election for Britain's new Prime Minister and whoever wins will stay in office until the next general election

[@LordRaxyn]

Must be tricky keeping on top of this level of incompetence.

[@leejohnstone4663]

@@LordRaxyn You have to understand under the British Constitution the Prime Minister doesn't get 2 months to prepare for the job. Under the American Constitution the president elect gets 2 months on the job training from the current president. The president elect sits in on meetings in the oval office. Goes with the current president to meetings at the Pentagon and spends time video in Congress studying the process of democracy. Our Prime Minister is given the job and thrown in the deep end.

[@rockerteen8300]

We have this problem in the United States as well, the billionaires don’t want to pay any taxes and they want handouts at the same time. Anytime the wealthy get control of the government it spells disaster for the poor and good news for only the rich.

[@rizashahril]

as long as both parties are puppets for the billionaires, i dont think there will be major change for a while

[@gp-oi5nt]

Your mistake is in believing the ultra rich aren’t always in control of the government

[@melissalayson7275]

@@rizashahril Most Democrats in US support giving taxes to the rich. Stop with this both Republicans and Democrats are the same crap.

[@rizashahril]

@@melissalayson7275 you've been switching winning parties for a few times and i wont bother saying anything else but i do noticed oil is cheaper when trump is president. maybe the career politicians is the main problem for both sides.

[@Stad122]

@@rizashahril "The main problem is the billionaires running the government!" "Why are you saying putting a rich asshole in charge of the country is bad?"

[@travelwell6049]

I don’t understand much about politics. So, big thanks to this channel for joining me in on the conversation and being the sole reason I’ve been able to keep up with this fiasco.

[@salicazsali]

The Queen died shortly after shaking her hand too. Just saying.

[@Infinitystar225]

She saw what was coming and noped out.

[@edsr164]

That was cruel

[@NeoMark627]

@@Infinitystar225 Queen: "I have lived through many horrors in my life WW2, worthless sons, the collapse of the Empire, ordering the hit on Diana and through it all, I have endured." Aide: "Your majesty Liz Truss has been selected as Prime Minister." Queen: "Alright, I am going to head out. GG guys."

[@darthplagueis13]

Died of cringe

[@budomk9299]

@@NeoMark627 dayum 😭😭😭😂

[@cosmedelustrac5842]

Four hours in and you already have to make an update as she resigned.

[@chromenewt]

I honestly hope the videos on the TLDR channels are archived for future generations to watch and understand what happened during this time.

[@lexslate2476]

Ah, Liz Truss! Unpopular among those of the public who knew who she was, unpopular among MPs, but weirdly appealing to the sort of vibes-over-data self-destructive loon that forms the general bulk of Tory party membership. Great choice for Prime Minister, perfect representative of the party as a whole. I'll be over here with popcorn. Watching a conservative party set itself on fire and then try to put itself out by repeatedly smashing its face against a brick wall is putting me in a wonderful mood.

[@Bobby-xr4bo]

“ your face is on fire.. heres a shovel to put it out”

[@howardsimpson489]

Will Charlie3 have to do a Whitlam style replacement of the Pm or perhaps the whole govt?

[@patriarch7237]

Unfortunately they will continue to take down the rest of us with them.

[@Bobby-xr4bo]

@@howardsimpson489 I wonder if he has the power to call for an Election

[@2dradon2]

How stubborn do you have to be to honestly still support the tories/truss at this point?

[@APerson4889-g5f]

How stupid do you have to be to trust in politics at all?

[@CountScarlioni]

I know someone who is still determined to vote Tory at the next election, and I'm ashamed to say they're part of my extended family. She and her husband (who to be fair isn't very political) fits all the stereotype boxes - retired, financially comfortable, white, Daily Mail reading and bigoted. All she needed for her to be onboard with Torydom was the beating of the culture war drum and the promise of sinking all the little boats those "brown invaders" were coming in on. Frankly I don't think she has the intellect to comprehend the financial and social damage the Tories have caused. All that just goes over her head and she doesn't care. I think she's what Americans would call a "low info voter". I'm genuinely frightened that there are millions more lower middle class boomers just like her who will all be back to being true blue the moment a GE gets called.

[@2dradon2]

@@CountScarlioni I like to think they are, or becoming the minority.

[@Joe125g20]

But... But... CORBYN! 😢

[@SevenEllen]

@@Joe125g20 And? Look at the state of the nation. You haven't got a leg to stand on.

[@ezequielmochkovsky]

This video was very well timed.

[@guss77]

When Truss says "we haven't been tough enough on monetary supply", she means: "we haven't tipped the scales enough to the benefit of the ultra-rich". According to Truss, inflation can be mitigated by giving enough money to the billionaires and multinationals, to prevent them from raising prices". The idea that if you increase the margins on the finances of the ones with the best margins, they will shrink it back by putting the extra money back into the economy, with no incentive other than "you have enough", is so stupid it begs the question whether this liberal is trying to fool herself, or her constituents...

[@jorriffhdhtrsegg]

Libertarian became such an inverted nonsensical ideology didn't it. So it means freedom economically for super rich, but less freedom for absolutely everything else what an oxymoron when they want to shut protest down and have the state interfere with everything.

[@daemonlordmagnusthered6213]

Exactly this. Tax cuts can work, as long as an incentive for spending exists. No incentive just means less “income” for the government, resulting in less overall cash flow and thus destabilising the economy.

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

The rich in England saw what the rich in the US have been doing for decades and said “I want some of that!” and have been following the same playbook. Use the public’s ignorance and prejudice to get their people elected, then cut cut cut. Did they remember to gerrymander the districts to keep themselves in power?

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

I think the theory is that rich people will invest the extra money into businesses which will create more jobs. But they might alternatively buy a yacht manufactured overseas which doesn't help the UK economy at all. There are such better ways to stimulate the economy, such as funding a bank to support small business investment loans, or building infrastructure. Government should just do the things that need to happen instead of giving money to rich people in the hope that they will do the things that need to happen if you just wish hard enough.

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

@@adrianthoroughgood1191 That’s definitely the “theory”. Trickle down theory, but like social darwainism it’s twisted logic meant to support evil behavior. You don’t invest in a business because you have money - you invest because your business has more demand you need to meet. Without the demand, there’s no reason to invest. So the only way to spur development is to spend - buy product, buy services, give money to those who will buy: the poor and middle class. The money will make its way to the rich, but they will have to invest it to meet demand.

[@kazukikurama9637]

Sunak : when i predicted the future u guys didn't believe me, now we can just watch how worst it can go Liz : no word's

[@NecromanSir]

this is a design of Sunak and Boris, not Lizz, she excuted it.

[@Da1Dez]

She only got into politics in the first place because she slept with her political mentor and in return for doing so got given contacts in the conservative party, ultimately leading to her getting selected by foolish Cameron to become a conservative candidate. Despite all this, it seems it wasn't enough to change her boring and poor communication skills.... If anyone ever wondered how she got in the long run, when they feel they could do better than her..... there you are!

[@JacobOhlssonBudinger]

wow. the uk is so turbulent rn a video explaining the situation has literally aged like milk within the first 3 hours. that's almost impressive.

[@Potatotenkopf]

The collective hate from all their former subjects has returned and shook the British like a fishing boat caught in a tsunami. I just hope that there would be a dissolution of the united kingdoms not a full destruction of the country

[@Haleorn]

Props to the lettuce, it really did manage to outlast her :O

[@kingace6186]

"--since any Prime Minister since polling began." Huh. That makes me curious. When did polling begin? Pre-war?

[@todortodorov940]

I was afraid that "the writers" of the "Berxit" reality show were getting out of fresh ideas and it was getting boring to watch UK politics, but I was wrong; With bringing Liz Truss onboard, they again deliver high quality entertainment every week. PS: This only applies if you live outside the UK. For UK citizens and residents - I am sorry.

[@todortodorov940]

@Pierre In ... and now they are kicking her out :(

[@Neion8]

It's okay, self-depreciating humour is the only value in modern Britain that's on the rise. Tbh though I really don't see how a government could fuck up as thoroughly as the current conservative government has been doing; it's almost like they want Britain to crash as hard as possible so they can go to their European retirement homes and get hi-fives from all the EU bureaucrats who'll never have to worry about another independance movement. Ofc, that assumes they're smart enough to think that far ahead which I doubt; we're just seeing how shit our government is without the EU to carry their flaws and blame their problems on.

[@todortodorov940]

@@Neion8 To be honest, I think the government was shit when within the EU and is shit outside the EU. I don't think the EU has anything to say much here. It's pure homegrown incompetence.

[@anthonyroundtree5]

Really, I missed the last few seasons. I got to binge watch to catch up.

[@mahe4]

@@todortodorov940 yes, but now they don't have anyone to blame anymore.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

In Lettuce we Truss.

[@cbs1710]

Weirdly sexual, but okay.

[@JayMannStuff]

If Truss is lettuce, does that make T. May the Tomato? Then who would be the bacon in this BLT?

[@pauljones-tj5vs]

@@JayMannStuff boris liz Teresa BLT

[@spacebuilder4d]

@@cbs1710 🤨📸

[@cbs1710]

Since I have to explain it, Truss -> Trust -> Thrust.

[@fishettibean]

Liz Truss just speed runned "being PM any% & being able to form a government". She has topped the leader board.... 🤣

[@niklasvonschantz7912]

Thank you guys! It's these kinds of well researched and well built up explanation videos that keep me returning to TLDR for news 👍

[@218kq]

For a non brit (indonesian) tldr is one of media i following for brief political news of domestic uk. Quite light to take compared to other mainstream uk medias no matter how harsh the information sounds be.

[@eurovision50]

I think what I've learnt from this, and what shocks me, is how fragile everything is. I genuinely wouldn't have thought it possible for the Pound to crash that much.

[@artificialCartoons]

I suggest you look at Jeff Sniders videos on the Eurodollar system. It's a huge, shadowy, limitless interbank debt system. That's where the problems lie, and the UK is a big part of it, along with Switzerland.

[@Goddot]

everything's possible, there's no certitude, and there exists nothing that you can invest that will forever be a safe value, be it gold, housing or bitcoins. So try to live a worthwhile life, enjoy the ride and relax

[@kimonmatara6903]

@@artificialCartoons Might be quicker to look at what happens to bond yields when you announce massive tax cuts funded by borrowing.

[@captiantitus6510]

Should have waited a few hours, could have reported that Truss Resigned today.

[@somerelativleyuninterestin4763]

I don’t feel like she’ll resign, purely out of pride. If she goes before January, she’ll be the shortest serving PM in UK history and I doubt she cares for the title

[@jamesgravil9162]

The shortest serving PM with the second shortest Chancellor and the shortest Home Secretary.

[@maalikserebryakov]

@@jamesgravil9162 shortest perhaps but also most effective.

[@7ookee]

Yeah, Johnson did a similar thing by holding out until he had at least been in the job longer than May.

[@harambe7430]

@@maalikserebryakov most effective at what fucking up as much as possible??

[@falconeshield]

She'll be out before Xmas

[@edsr164]

How does the polling work in UK? How can someone be negative 10%?

[@jacobjohnson4785]

Negative compared to the opposition

[@EmZera]

Net approval ratings are calculated by approval (9%) - disapproval (70%)

[@thefountainpendesk]

a net approval rating is calculated as positive - negative so for example let's say if 10% approve and 70% disapprove 10% - 70% = -60%

[@edsr164]

Oh, thank you all

[@valerieblackwood9777]

This is such an excellent KZbin channel! Thank you for everything you do!

[@phoenixboyz]

Sunak would say: I told you so Why can’t Sunak replace Truss? Thanks for the summary this helps a lot for non UK ppl like me

[@sassythesasquatch4425]

He is brown. They dont want someone brown lol

[@Saa5962Sab]

Racism

[@AM2K2]

@@sassythesasquatch4425 Yes it is nothing to do with him backstabbing Johnson nor his wife's tax status

[@gota7738]

@@AM2K2 Backstabbing and tax dodging? Isn't that part of the requirement?

[@lewisner]

Because Sunak is a puppet of the WEF and is pro EU. He is also one of the "super rich" many of Trusses critics seem to hate.

[@gjn17]

Rishi warned Liz about her fantasy plans would be disastrous

[@gendoruwo6322]

a man cannot win a debate against a woman. only reality can.

[@alanhowe7659]

Incompetence married to arrogance.

[@chrisdotchivers]

The timing of this videe's release is impeccable.

[@dindu42]

It's stunning that for everyone else when you apply for a job you have to be qualified and can demonstrate that you can do the job. We really need some kind of aptitude test which someone needs to be able to pass before even being allowed to run a country.

[@CountScarlioni]

Unfortunately Truss would likely have passed it. She's been in cabinet positions for a decade and has been a leading decision maker for much of that time. It's horrifying to say it but her CV was looking genuinely strong by the time Johnson was being ousted. But that is because all that actual _talent_ in the Tory party that was capable of effective government is gone. Either because they voted remain and were purged for heresy by the ERG. Or because they weren't loyal enough to Boris Johnson's fiefdom and were turfed out then. So the result is all that remains in seniority are a bunch of Brexit ultras, too ideological to make a rational decision, and too stupid to realise Johnson was a fraud. Truss has two strengths. One is a talent for chameleonic political survival. The other is being able to spout the libertarian neoconservative claptrap that her Tory membership fanboys wank off to. There's absolutely no way in hell she would ever have become PM via a general election.

[@gendoruwo6322]

it's Peter principle. one would rise and keep rising until a certain optimal level. Once there, she should not rise again... because beyond that level she turns into a total screw up.

[@meowmiaumiauw]

As a Canadian, I thought Brexit would wreck the UK, but I didn't expect it to be so fast or so catastrophic

[@NoResultFound]

"It's a shambles and a disgrace" - Charles Walker Conservitive MP

[@SevenEllen]

FINALLY something a Tory says I can agree on.

[@s3ra9h1m]

Liz Truss has a touch of death that even the Queen couldn’t resist 😢

[@jeanmyers1787]

She was anti monarchy when in Liberal Party, no wonder she finished off Her Majesty 😢

[@fireironthesecond2909]

Truss stole her immortality potions, just like she was trying to steal all the not oligarch’s money

[@TheNathanj2009]

How someone so useless and incompetent could become a Prime Minister is very disturbing

[@JamesSomersetActor]

That Sunak is seen as a moderate shows how far the tories have lurched to the right

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

Truss isn't very right wing though?

[@budomk9299]

@@mrcaboosevg6089 it doesn't seem she is but maybe she's trying to placate those that are?

[@Super1022T]

The UK needs to go into settings mode, activate Full Factoy Reset and clear out all Tory and brexit spam that is corrupting its operating system.

[@jamesgravil9162]

Needs a good defrag as well. Hasn't had one in twelve years!

[@zamilzahra98]

Lmao, King Charles really need to continue the charles legacy right now

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

Need to add far left appeasement to that too

[@TheKazragore]

@@jamesgravil9162 The system needs patching. They keep delaying the preferential voting update.

[@sin4193]

Agreed. Needs more socialism :)

[@theconqueringram5295]

Today Prime Minister Truss is on the way out after just 45 days in office. She resigned, but will remain Prime Minister for the next 8 days until a successor can be chosen. That gives her a tenure of just 53 days. According to Wikipedia, it's the shortest overall term in British history.

[@uudd369]

It takes some talent to mess up so badly in just the first 30 working days (considering she actually started "work" on 20th Sept.)

[@Pedgo1986]

Did she mess up or it was always plan?

[@darthplagueis13]

​@@Pedgo1986 A plan? You think she secretly conspired with Kwarteng to just butcher the Tories approval ratings?

[@hanquanphoon5664]

Don't you have to cut out the weekends too though?

[@Pedgo1986]

@@darthplagueis13 No conspiration just instruction from oligarchs that are moving their political paws behind the curtain. Damaging economy and weakening currency is always great opportunity to amass insane amount of money. She is on their payroll she don't care if UK go belly or be ousted from her PM position.

[@ts6070]

Well Rishi didn’t get much support from the racist nasty party membership..

[@jeanmyers1787]

I think perhaps his very wealthy wife being discovered as not having paid tax may have had something to do with it.

[@ts6070]

@@jeanmyers1787 yes certainly that wouldn’t have helped but now the latest useless Nasty party PM a has gone finally…it’s likely he will run and maybe even win we finally get UK first non-white PM ever..but not that even he has a chance of winning 🏅 in the next UK election 🗳️ in 2024/2025🤦🏻‍♂️ the nasty party after 12 years can’t fix the UK 🇬🇧 so please give someone else a chance for gods sake! 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@okman9684]

@@jeanmyers1787 well liz literally sent wealth to all the rich basterds so she is even worse

[@zolac9732]

​@@jeanmyers1787 What had his wife not paying tac got to do with him

[@hellohello9400]

@@jeanmyers1787 yea that’s what it was …sureeeeee

[@justinlimnardy9407]

I'm a fighter not a QUITTER!!!!! I'm resigning.

[@signed_Bewildered]

she doesn't compromise. she goes straight to surrender

[@mab9614]

Not a huge fan of the Tories, but I never understood why the picked Truss over Sunak. At the very very least, Sunak has a MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Truss? A BA... Edit: In terms of dealing with business and economy, Sunak is definitely the no. 1 choice.

[@rh906]

Education level isn't the be all end all. It's what you actually did and I doubt she got anything based on skill. Diversity at its finest.

[@infomatters.]

He's hugely unpopular among tory voters

[@heaven77ish]

But also an ex banker that was working in the system at the point of the 2008 crash. Playing dangerous games with other people's money. Never a good place

[@edsr164]

Islamophobia. Look at his name

[@BIGJXXX]

@@MEHOLE THANK YOU someone hit the nail on the head.

[@grahamturner1290]

Excellent analysis, as always. 👍

[@Fuzzytubby]

I think that any Conservative MP who decides that they want to be Prime Minister should be treated as a huge red flag.

[@Eolopolo]

I mean, you saw it coming from a mile off. The moment it looked like she was going to become prime minister, I just remember thinking that the country would be in a state by Christmas - to be fair, she's only gone and exceeded my expectations. It's one of those things where I just can't understand for the life of me, why the larger tory membership ever went for her. There's daft and then there's astronomically daft. Rishi always looked the better choice and him basically predicting our current situation only strengthens that point.

[@mityaboy4639]

the thing is it wasnt clear that she will go ahead crashing the economy. i am no tory voter, but i thought its all lipservice and once the treasury tells her and her chancellor what they are doing, then she would slow down a bit or at least delay it to say ‘turbulent times, the legislation is ready, but we must do it when inflation is back on track’ i foolishly expected her to be like any other politician: promise the unicorn, deliver a can of spam. but ‘credit’ to her: she is probably the first PM who does what exactly promised: crash the economy. in way… well… well done! (on the other hand she should be prosecuted for gross misconduct on public finances)

[@fredziffle1991]

Frankly I'm a Brit living abroad but after immense pride after the passing of the queen and the state funeral I'm embarrassed by Truss.

[@Ronariverah]

RISHI was so passionate/ angry in the debates about the what Liz was saying. He was infuriated. Remember he was then seen in a poor light because he was steamrolling her. Yeah i would too. Then the criticism that he was to rislch to relate to use. Liz shop cheap. Well it's easier to "persuade " a less rich person. Also who would i want running the my business/ country someone who can handle loads of money /made money and keep it or someone who is desperate in a scarcity mindset that can't handle 100,000 let alone 1 billion?

[@anupamrao7021]

I mean Rishi Saunak, as brilliant a statesman as he is, is also brown. I honestly believe that the British believe the sky will fall down if they vote in a brown man.

[@davidioanhedges]

Rishi will still do evil, but at least he knows how to do it so people will still vote Tory...

[@davidioanhedges]

@@anupamrao7021 It's why Liz Truss won, the core conservative members couldn't vote for him... now we have seen they are not representative of other Tory MP's , other MP's or the typical voter ...

[@jithinpoliyedathmohanan7237]

Rishi sunak is for all I know a money man,his life revolves around money..and he knows probably about money than anyone else(this is a guy who even married for money),so I was quite sure whatever he was saying regarding money was right..for rest he is not quite sure

[@rameji-chan737]

Update: Liz Truss just resigned. This video came with a perfect timing. I'd give her a "speedrunning being prime minister, any %" award tho!

[@globalistgamer6418]

It's not just a joke, metaphor or meme anymore, she literally has taken the record from George Canning (died in office in 1827) as the shortest serving Prime Minister of all time.

[@budomk9299]

@@globalistgamer6418 well at least she'll go down in history

[@lloydwright3661]

The funny thing about all this is everyone acts like Miss Truss is the problem here. She said what she was going to do, everyone was warned what would happen. Then after voting her in threw their hands in the air when it all went to pot 😂

[@TheLargedwarf]

I have to admire her commitment to the Halloween bit - with the zombie cabinet desperate for brains and unaware that it is dead, the Frankenstein monster of fiscal policy made from a collection of chancellors, and of course her spectacular ghost act when it comes to being in the public eye.

[@Maverick-hf1pe]

The fact that Kwasi Kwarteng said “Absolutely not, I’m not going ANYWHERE” on Sky News when asked if he will resign or be fired the literal day before he was fired will never not be funny

[@norwaytoday]

Kamikaze Kwarteng

[@Skarix]

David Cameron: resigned Theresa May: resigned Boris Johnson: resigned Liz Truss: resigned *12 years of conservative rule in Britain, everyone!*

[@veryincognito6776]

The next general elections are in 2024. Does that mean 2, 3 or 4 PM's later ?

[@CountScarlioni]

I'll be astonished if Truss is still there by weekend. 2 finished off by Brexit. 2 finished off by rank stupidity. What a tally.

[@SevenEllen]

HELL no.

[@educprof2160]

This video isnt even 24 hour old and she already resigned 💀💀💀💀

[@grahamboffey457]

Total ineptitude, lack of intelligence, talentless, character and empathy vacuum.

[@mimistar1427]

Liz Truss was once a Liberal Democrat and maybe this was a long con to get the Tories out 🤣

[@SevenEllen]

That would be funny if it wasn't costing lives.

[@mimistar1427]

I chose to laugh instead of crying 😂

[@stefenfelix8013]

Forget the Crown. I want a new series. '44-days to collapse' starring Tilda Swinton or Kellie Maloney as Liz Truss ;)

[@SamButler22]

The pound was not just at a 37 year low against the dollar; it was at it's lowest since the inception of the dollar!

[@Ashadow700]

British PM in the Brexit era any% world record speedrun.

[@SevenEllen]

You're going to have to edit that sentence again. The point is clear enough but the articulation is gibberish.

[@Ashadow700]

@@SevenEllen You don't watch a lot of video game speedruns, do you? That title suits Truss's record perfectly, for more reasons than one. 😀

[@pabloni1117]

Honestly not sure that her record will be broken, now that it's official

[@raymondelf7520]

Liz Truss' Collapse when leeds in the north interview her and hammered her she has never got over it

[@TerribleFire]

Truss's MP pension should be taken off her to pay for this mess.