Really?
Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls
Eheran@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoWhat did she do to cause that?
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Uh … yes? Sorry for not keeping up with… UK? politics I guess?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
To add to @sunbeam60@lemmy.one’s comment, the whole thing: from her becoming PM to resigning, lasted just 50 days. The shortest PM in British history by far, beating the previous record of George Canning of 119 days in 1827.
And her premiership would have been even shorter, except that the Queen died on her watch, which put a complete pause on British politics for a time.
13esq@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Worth noting that Canning died in office, rather than having to resign in disgrace.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
TLDR; she became prime minister (PM) because some powerful forces in the conservative thought she would be easy to control (they were right), she instigated a borderline libertarian, trickle-down tax reform, the international money markets went insane (because it was borderline insane, unfunded and left no doubt as to her ineptitude), the U.K. economy took a massive hit - and all of this within a week or two - and it became crystal clear that she actually was indeed exactly as inept and dumb as she looked, so she was replaced because while everyone in her batshit crazy party was like “tax cuts for the rich”, enough of them understood that for the money markets to have any confidence in the U.K. economy couldn’t actually be run by someone with the intelligence of a lettuce. Fun fact, a newspaper ran a “who will die first, this lettuce or Liz Truss?” live video stream of a lettuce were proven right; the lettuce outlived her.
I’m missing a lot of detail that can best be summarised as: Liz Truss is a shining example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Eheran@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Holy moly, thanks. I love that bit about the lettuce, brilliant!
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
The more I learn about her, the more I hate her.
But, and this is probably going to be a mistake to say out loud, nothing seems to stop her from being wildly attractive to me. It doesn’t even make sense, she’s just got a crazy cute face, and it pains me that behind that pretty face is such a bad brain.
kralk@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You might have started by reading the article?
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is a good question and you shouldn’t be downvoted for asking it.
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Tried to steamroll through new economic policy that was plain stupid, which the bank of England had to intervene on to stop peoples pensions going broke. This resulted in a huge spike in interest rates that thousands of people are still affected by today. There is much more to it, but thats the short story. Fuck this woman, she should be in prison not flogging books.