LIZ Truss, who is apparently still the Prime Minister, has finally broken her silence on the economic catastrophe which her government has created, and I am sure that I am far from alone in wishing that she had just kept her mouth shut.

Armando Iannucci, the creator of political satire The Thick Of It, must be raking in the royalties right now because we are all living in an immersive version of it.

Truss gave a series of interviews to local radio in England. The term “car crash” is much overused when it comes to bad interviews, but car crash fails to do justice to the magnitude of Truss's awfulness. This was not just a series of car crashes – it was a runaway train packed with nuclear waste coming off the rails and colliding with an orphanage before exploding in flames and showering radioactive particles on a children's hospital. 

Truss refused to accept any responsibility for the current mess. It's all Putin's fault apparently. It was Putin's fault that the Bank of England had to make an emergency intervention in order to protect the British economy from the British Government. It's Putin's fault that Kwarteng crashed the pound. It's Putin's fault that interest rates are set to soar leading to huge rises in mortgages and rents. It's Putin's fault that the pension markets were close to meltdown. And it's Putin's fault that the IMF had to issue a statement warning that Truss’s government's policies were a disaster.

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Listeners ended up waiting to find out if none of it could possibly have anything to do with her because she was in a Pizza Express in Woking that day.

According to Truss, the current problems of Britain have nothing to do with the Conservative government. It is an international problem. The fact that Sterling has suddenly crashed against other major currencies and was singled out by the markets immediately after Kwarteng's “mini-Budget” means nothing to her. Even the mainstream international economic-financial-banking consensus, including the IMF, blaming her government's policies for the present disaster simply does not register with her. This is arrogance and ignorance on a breathtaking scale, even by the woeful standards of this Conservative Party.

She could not even answer the most basic questions about government borrowing, mortgages and debt markets. Truss and her advisers probably thought giving interviews to local radio across England would mean she wouldn't get absolutely rinsed by decent journalists asking tough questions, which tells you everything you need to know about Tory views on the UK beyond the M25.

Her press team must be kicking themselves that they did not arrange an interview with BBC Scotland's Call Kaye so that the Prime Minister could have been asked: "The SNP, why are they so terrible? Now please tell us how Scottish independence would be far, far worse, and give us your opinion on the real issue of the day – the ferries."

Truss, defending Kwarteng's atrocity of a mini-Budget, was actually saying that after 12 years of Conservative austerity, a financial market crash and mortgage lenders discussing 7% interest rates, her policies and measures are required because Britain has concentrated far too much on “redistribution”. 

Truss wants us to believe that Johnson, May and Cameron were focused principally on economic redistribution. She thinks that the three previous Conservative prime ministers were really closet socialists. At least that is what she seemed to be saying once you got past the scripted lines and the long pauses while her brain searched for a rehearsed soundbite.

She seemed determined to talk about energy bills – despite the fact that an announcement had been made on that weeks before – as though Kwarteng's tax cuts for the wealthy were really about fuel bills. She repeatedly refused to engage with questions about the economic chaos of the past week other than to blame it on Putin.

Truss failed dismally to give the reassurance that worried people so badly need. She even failed to guarantee pensions. So much for that Better Together promise in 2014 that pensions would only be safe with a No vote. Even the BBC was forced to acknowledge that Truss's performance was “awkward and uncomfortable at times”.

There can be absolutely no doubt now that the Conservative Party, true to form, have given us yet another woeful prime minister, who continues the pattern of being even worse than the woeful prime minister who came before. Please make it all stop.

But it won't stop, not until Scotland escapes this dysfunction of a so-called Union.

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