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Liz Truss fronting a business centre/club you have to pay half a million pound to join
Speaking of giving money to Liz, we must move on, because – amazingly – this new media venture is not even my favourite Truss announcement of the past fortnight. That honour has to go to the unveiling of a new private London club, spearheaded by Liz, who wants members to give her – are you ready for this? – £500,000 each to join. I know! But it’s true! She’s recorded a personal invitation video message and everything, in which she seeks recruits for a new kind of private members’ club. So, no shit coke or proud dad sexual harassers claiming to be film producers? Truly, end of a very long era. But apparently, this is one for “pro-growth leaders”, which is certainly something you can imagine being droned in your ear at 2am by an experiential marketing agency boss who’s missed the last train to Beaconsfield.
Sorry, where was I? Oh yes, it’s called The Leconfield, and I think you can officially regard the search for the most cursed private members’ club in Mayfair as over. What seems to be being offered is a shared office, or as Liz would have it, “a secure ecosystem” and “unique business centre” for people “at the forefront of technology, policy, and capital”. I want to call it “a WeWork for arseholes” but I think that’s just a WeWork. But with something this much of a joke, what a miss not to call it HoHo House.
Instead, black lacquer boxes have arrived at the offices of solicited members. These contained the personal message from Truss and the information that she was seeking to sign up no fewer than 700 people at that price point. “Join me,” she coaxed, “as we build this new reality of collaboration, innovation and prosperity together.”
Join her? JOIN HER? Now that I’ve perused the introductory offer – and, indeed, now that I know about The Liz Truss Show – I am struck by the fact that there is in fact a certain coherence to these two seemingly absurdist projects. If, after everything, Liz Truss genuinely is able to find 700 people to pay her half a million quid, then fine – I will agree with her. Because how could you not? How could you draw anything other than the conclusion that not just this country, but the entire west, has actually fallen?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/liz-truss-show-former-pm-youtube-talkshow
Sorry, where was I? Oh yes, it’s called The Leconfield, and I think you can officially regard the search for the most cursed private members’ club in Mayfair as over. What seems to be being offered is a shared office, or as Liz would have it, “a secure ecosystem” and “unique business centre” for people “at the forefront of technology, policy, and capital”. I want to call it “a WeWork for arseholes” but I think that’s just a WeWork. But with something this much of a joke, what a miss not to call it HoHo House.
Instead, black lacquer boxes have arrived at the offices of solicited members. These contained the personal message from Truss and the information that she was seeking to sign up no fewer than 700 people at that price point. “Join me,” she coaxed, “as we build this new reality of collaboration, innovation and prosperity together.”
Join her? JOIN HER? Now that I’ve perused the introductory offer – and, indeed, now that I know about The Liz Truss Show – I am struck by the fact that there is in fact a certain coherence to these two seemingly absurdist projects. If, after everything, Liz Truss genuinely is able to find 700 people to pay her half a million quid, then fine – I will agree with her. Because how could you not? How could you draw anything other than the conclusion that not just this country, but the entire west, has actually fallen?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/liz-truss-show-former-pm-youtube-talkshow
The tagline for this attempt to dig a property developer out of a hole (he's stuck with an office block in Mayfair for which the council won't allow the use to change from offices), fronted by the shortest-serving PM ever, and punchline to countless jokes?
"A Legacy of Excellence".