Last week, UK Conservative Party leader Liz Truss took over as Prime Minister after Boris Johnson stepped down amid a COVID-19 “Partygate” scandal and sprawling government crisis. On the most recent Last Week Tonight, John Oliver ripped into Truss, noting that she’s basically gotten a free pass this week as everyone’s too distracted by other British drama to fully notice her ineptitude.
Oliver played a clip of a recent interview with the woman he calls “Margaret Thatcher if she were high on glue” as well as “dollar-store British Leslie Knope.” The clip is pretty typical of Truss’ brand of conservative inanity, as it features her railing against a sort of strawman socialism.
UK residents are currently in the middle of a masive energy crisis. People’s utility bills are skyrocketing and Truss says she acknowledges that’s a problem, but also won’t do anything to get the energy companies to sacrifice their immense profits in any way.
“I don’t think ‘profit’ is a dirty word,” she says in the clip. “The fact it’s become a dirty word in our society is a massive problem.”
“What the fuck are you talking about?” Oliver cut in. “Look, I’m just gonna say this, and you may not like it, but it doesn’t make it any less true: The nicest thing the Queen of England ever did for anyone was die the week that woman became prime minister. Because for at least a week, she’s not going to get justifiably destroyed for answers like that.”
“The nicest thing the Queen of England ever did for anyone was die the week that woman became prime minister. Because for at least a week, she's not going to be getting justifiably destroyed for answers like that.”
— creative chaos (@KrallIan) September 12, 2022
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