Liz Truss Show Review – Miserable Rave from the Closet | Liz Truss

IIn the run-up to the launch of “The Liz Truss Show” — the provocative new YouTube series from Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister — one phrase was repeated over and over: “They tried to silence her.” It turns out they didn’t need to, because Truss was perfectly capable of doing it herself.

She tweeted that the first episode will be available on Friday at 6 p.m. Except on Friday at 6pm, he was nowhere to be seen. By 6.05, with no sign of it, her followers began to feel itchy. “Where’s your show?” They tweeted it. A few more minutes passed. “FFS Liz, get your act together,” another sighed.

By 6.20, it looked as if Truss was as familiar with YouTube’s uploading procedures as she was with the British economy. Two minutes later, someone else tweeted: “Could this be the deep state at work?” And I honestly couldn’t tell you if it was a joke.

But then, miracle of miracles, The Liz Truss Show finally came out. in 7 pm. Maybe because Liz Truss hasn’t yet figured out how to change her clocks to British Summer Time.

So, an inauspicious start. But at least that was immediately followed by one of the craziest opening monologues in recent memory.

“You’d have to watch the BBC fake news not to know that Britain is going to hell in a wheelbarrow,” Truss began, sitting in what appeared to be a cupboard furnished with the kind of books pubs buy by the metre.

The theme of the monologue was clear: Britain was in desperate trouble. “Small businesses are dying,” she groaned. “Big businesses are leaving… and people are having to pull their teeth.”

We live in an Islamic socialist dystopia full of crime. She said that if they appointed a Yes Minister today, Humphrey Appleby would be a “radical trans activist”. What’s worse is that the British people don’t realize this because the media, including its “Jill bakeries and boarded houses”, refuse to tell them the truth.

At this point it becomes painfully clear what The Liz Truss Show actually is. So empty in her own country that ITV Racing didn’t even recognize her the last time she went to Goodwood, Truss now pins her future on being embraced by the American right.

Her opening monologue was nothing more than a laundry list of MAGA’s stereotypes about Britons. The woman longs to be Donald Trump’s Lord Haw-Haw, or at least a version of Lord Haw-Haw who looked like a bucket of keys had just fallen on his head.

After the monologue ended, Truss began interviewing her guests. The first was Matt Goodwin, described as “Britain’s No. 1 sub-stacker”. We have to assume he was there, because for an abnormally long time, the camera never left Truss’s face.

At one point, once Goodwin started speaking, the camera stayed on her for a full 40 seconds. I don’t know if I’ve ever spent 40 seconds looking at Liz Truss as she blinks and swallows wordlessly, but it’s a really disturbing scene. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

After a brief conversation with a second guest – a podcaster wearing a “Freedom” T-shirt – it was directed to former Brexit Party MEP Alex Phillips, who was inevitably talking angrily about immigration.

The highlight of her interview was how it ended, stopping abruptly as she launched into an evasive path about how legal immigrants were being “encouraged” to leave the UK. What could have happened? Did she say something that crossed the line, or was it the deep state that silenced her again? We may never know.

I think this whole endeavor only exists because Liz Truss wants America to like her, even though the only thing America knows about her is that she once held her book upside down on Fox News. So I gave in to it, talking loudly into an Internet shoebox, like the first person to die in a disaster movie. It would be tragic if he wasn’t so stupid.

The second episode of The Liz Truss Show will air next Friday at 6 p.m. That’s assuming Liz Truss had figured out how clocks worked before then.