"In the lead-up to the launch of The Liz Truss Show the hot new YouTube series from Britain's shortest-serving prime minister one phrase was repeated time and time again: They tried to silence her. Turns out they didn't need to, because Truss was perfectly capable of doing that herself. Episode 1, she tweeted, would be available on Friday at 6pm. Except, on Friday at 6pm, it was nowhere to be seen."
"You'd have to be watching the fake news BBC to not know that Britain is going to hell in a handcart, Truss began, sitting in what appeared to be a cupboard furnished with the sort of books that pubs buy by the metre. The theme of the monologue was clear: Britain is in desperate trouble. Small businesses are dying. Big businesses are leaving People are having to pull their own teeth out, she groaned. We live in a crime-ridden, socialist, Islamist dystopia."
The show's premiere suffered a delayed upload that sparked audience impatience and jokes about incompetence and conspiracy. The eventual release featured an eccentric opening monologue filmed in a cupboard-like setting. The monologue painted Britain as facing severe decline: small businesses dying, large firms departing, rising crime, and people suffering extreme hardship. The rhetoric blended populist alarms with cultural claims, invoking socialism, Islamist threats, and a satirical Yes Minister reference to a "radicalised trans activist." The segment accused mainstream media of protecting elites through cosy coverage and failing to reveal the country's alleged deterioration.
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