Beware the Liz Truss chatshow: viewers will require survivor therapy | John Crace

Khappy minority. We are in the unlucky minority. In the years to come as we try to recover from post-traumatic stress disorder, we’ll be able to say we were there. We saw things that were impossible to unsee. The 8,000 of us who, with a mixture of curiosity and comedy, chose to watch Liz Truss get by on her own. Although very few people made it to the end.

Some won’t even make it to the start. The show started an hour late because Liz had forgotten to put her watch back in October. Yet this was an award-winning YouTube TV show. Although they are not prizes that everyone would want to collect.

In January, we encountered the strange footage of Liz Truss live-tweeting the presidential inauguration from her hotel room in Washington. He realized too late that he needed an invitation to the Capitol and that he wasn’t on anyone’s guest list. Looking back, we can see this as a test run.

She appeared to have converted the supply room into a makeshift studio for the new Liz Truss Show. No expenses were incurred. Although this time there was someone to do the shooting. Although a 12-year-old intern took ketamine. I saw better cuts in my father’s home movies in the 60s.

We opened with a montage of Lizzy’s greatest hits. There he was welcomed by the queen at Balmoral. Big mistake. He seems unaware that the entire country blames him for the Queen’s death. The last photo we saw of the Queen was when Truss was introduced to her on Tuesday. He died two days later. The case was proven. It’s easy to imagine the Queen thinking: “You know what? It’s not worth it anymore. My first prime minister was Winston Churchill. Now it’s come to this…”

Then Liz looked directly at the camera and launched into an unbalanced argument. Although it wasn’t obvious before, it’s now clear that its maintenance in the community experiment has failed. He is a danger to himself. It’s almost painful to watch someone so lacking in self-awareness. His therapist isn’t doing him any favors by releasing him into the wild.

The message Liz has taken from her 49 days at Downing Street is that the only reason she failed was because she wasn’t given enough time. Deep down he believes we all want more from him. Damn, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! He can’t even get a gig as a D-list wannabe on his show. He was remembered less fondly than Matt Hancock.

“Britain is going to hell in a barrow,” said Liz, sitting behind a makeshift bookcase containing the only unreleased copy of Ten Years to Save the West. The whole country was poorer than Mississippi. Yes, who contributed the most to this? Irony is not his strong point.

Islamists were everywhere. The ruling elite hated us and the civil servants were all trans activists. But he would lead the counter-revolution against the DEEP STATE. Five minutes later I was already exhausted. You can’t buy this level of crap. Luckily I didn’t need this. It made Elon Musk seem like the voice of reason in X.

Then we come to Liz’s first special guest, Radon – “It’s a gas, but it’s motionless.” Step forward, Matt Goodwin, who emerged from the sewers of far-right conspiracy theories. Matt immediately turned to his favorite obsession. Foreigners. There were too many of these. We have been betrayed by self-hating elites. Maybe Matt would like to get in on this too. No one ever saw him smile knowingly.

“I got into politics because I was a patriot,” Liz said. “I didn’t want the borders to open” YES, YOU DID. You were one of the politicians who campaigned most vociferously to remain in the EU during the EU referendum. You were also a cabinet minister under Boris Johnson. Poor Lizzy. His memory was shattered. Even Matt looked nauseous now. I began to wonder if I had made a serious mistake by participating in a program hosted by a crazy person. And he had met many crazy people in his time.

But Lizzy was fine. Or an insult. The more he talked, the more his words became confused. It must be the benzodiazepines that are starting to take effect. ‘Keir Starrmer is the most disliked prime ministerrrrrrr.’ No, Liz, that was you.

He scoffed when he heard the word mercy. The Bank of England was full of Trotskyists. So is the police. This is Britain, Matt, but not as you know it. The last word went to Matt. There were too many foreigners. Real Brits needed more babies. We also knew what he meant by real Englishmen. The Great Displacement Theory doesn’t come up very often.

He cut timidly to the next guest. Peter McCormack is a podcaster and bitcoin enthusiast I’ve never heard of before. He was wearing a T-shirt with “Freedom” written on the front. Maybe it was a cry for help. He looked like he had no idea what he was doing there either. Except to say over and over again that everything is fucked up when Lizzy talks about him. He told us that communists were too smart for their own good, before concluding that Generation Z would save the country. Let me see you. You’ve got nothing to lose but your skinny oat milk latte.

This left Alexandra Phillips, a right-wing talking head remembered primarily for the cancellation of her Great Britain News show in 2022. He’s been on the same circuit with Goodwin ever since. Alex hated Muslims even more than Matt. They came from a barbarian culture. Bournemouth was now a no-go zone. A woman could not walk on the seashore without the threat of being raped. The real racists were Muslims. It’s not the white Brits who hate them. Every immigrant was a potential sex offender or terrorist. Liz nodded enthusiastically. Couldn’t agree more. Although she was scolding him for being too awake.

A final cut to the library where Lizzy gives her closing speech on camera. The country was in terminal decline. But there was hope. And this hope was his. SuperLiz comes to the rescue. “Until next week,” he said. If there is next week. The second part is in balance. Fingers crossed. Right now everyone who made it to the end is in a survivors therapy group. In the years to come, we will see her in the Mausoleum with her caretaker and we will say to ourselves: “Wasn’t she the woman who had her own talk show that no one watched?”