How goes The Liz Truss Show, the mayfly-like former prime minister’s attempt to reinvent herself as a YouTuber speaking the truth and popping the pomposity of the failing mainstream media?
Not very well, if viewing figures are anything to go by, with the Tory often struggling to get much into double figures since launching her channel as “the home of the counter-revolution” last month. It was billed as a “bold new programme in a media landscape dominated by groupthink and timid consensus”.
The increasingly conspiratorial right winger said at launch that “In 2022, I was deposed as prime minister for trying to save Britain from the doomloop we are in. I was blamed for a market crisis that was not my fault. The Deep State tried to destroy me but now I’m back and excited to launch this show. It’s time to push back, speak plainly, and champion the ideas that built Britain – and can rebuild it again.
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“This show is about straight talk, real debate, and the ideas that can restore strength and confidence to our nations. Now more than ever Western nations need a Trump-style revolution to save our culture, values and freedom.”
Alas for Truss, it appears that Western nations, nor anyone really, is interested in her rambling discussions with relatively fringe figures from the right of politics. At the time of writing she has received fewer than 800 views for her interview with Alan Mendoza, a right winger recently appointed as Nigel Farage’s foreign policy advisor, just over 600 for her chat with Mike Neville, a former DCI with the Metropolitan Police and around 1,200 for her talk with Nick Fletcher, an ex Tory MP best known for once attributing a rise in crime among young men to the casting of a female Doctor Who.
The entire channel only has 16,600 subscribers, which may seem a lot but is tiny for someone who was relatively recently the head of a G7 nation. Meanwhile, nothing has yet to be heard of her planned new social network, announced last April with the promise it would launch in the summer.
