‘Is This A Joke?’ Liz Truss Rinsed After Launching YouTube Show

Liz Truss has been torn apart on social media after announcing the launch of her new weekly YouTube show.

The former prime minister – who was in office for the historically short period of just 49 days – is launching of The Liz Truss Show on Friday.

In a short trailer posted on social media, she claimed to have been “deposed” after “trying to save our country from the doom loop it is now in”.

“I was blamed for a market crisis that was not my fault,” she insisted, ignoring how her £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts sent the markets into chaos and the pound into freefall.

“The deep state, their allies in media and politics, tried to destroy me because I challenged their decades of failure.

“Now I’m back. I will expose the people who brought me down. I will take on the deep state. I will tell the truth about what is happening in our country and across the West.”

“Tune in to the counter-revolution,” Truss urges viewers.

She added in the caption: “They tried to silence her. They failed.”

Naturally, the announcement triggered quite the response on social media – and very little of it was kind.

Plenty of people couldn’t help pointing out that Truss has held many very influential positions over the years even before she became prime minister including foreign secretary, international trade secretary and justice secretary – and so was effectively part of the “deep state”.

Quite a few also pointed out that the UK had already seen what her ideas looked like in practice after her short tenure…

Others just could not believe Truss was still trying to grab media attention.

While some just pointed to a new YouGov poll, which found 82% of Brits are either not very interested or not at all interested in what Truss has to say about government policy.

And of course, one user joked the timing was rather suspicious…