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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (2 children)

A woman so awful that after meeting her, the queen literally died.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ms Truss was speaking ahead of the publication of her book - her account of her time in Number 10.

More a pamphlet really.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is this a reference to something. I foofled it but no light was shed.

From the context I presume it is a way of saying it's a book no one would read, but is there more to it?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A newspaper had a webcam on a fresh head of lettuce. They wondered which would last longer. The lettuce or Liz Truss as PM. The lettuce won.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Ha Thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why on earth are we still paying attention to this idiot and treating her opinions as if they are worthy of consideration?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Because she was UK pm. It is a reminder of what kind of standards, or rather lack thereof, the office has.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Because that is what our media landscape has degenerated into.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

She's doing the media rounds because her book about her 49 days as PM is released. Apparently almost everything, including causing everyone's mortgage to sharply rise, wasn't her fault.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

She's just a footnote. At best.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And a god tier trivia question in 20 years. Who was prime Minister when the queen died?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That or which 'Prime Minister was outlasted by a lettuce?'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I just love she took the record of shortest serving prime minister from a guy who was already had the pneumonia that would kill him when he took office.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah she's one for the pub quiz.

About the only use she is, aside from discrediting any policy suggestions that come out of the Institute for Economic Affairs (i.e. the Tuffton Street Twats).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I doubt anyone in the us has any idea who she is. Especially Trump followers

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Many of us pay attention to world events. And I was cheering on the Lettuce!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The 'world was safer' argument is an especially bizarre one to make this week, of all weeks, when the Middle East is 'on the cusp' of a wider conflict that was partly caused by Donald Trump's unilateral withdrawal from a treaty with Iran. And Trump also inflamed tensions in that same region by moving the US' Israeli Embassy to Jersualem. As to conflict in 'the West' specifically, he also endorsed and continues to endorse the very people pushing the West towards conflict, and himself caused violent conflict in the US, which was part of 'the West' last time I checked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Not just the withdrawal, but also the assassination of a Revolutionary Guards general, which Iran themselves said was why they staged October 7 as an act of revenge.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

You think you know how dumb someone is, but they can always surprise you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Who does the cabbage endorse?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Quick, someone ask the lettuce their opinion! We need an experienced post-holder as a counter point!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

FYI Mz Truss, the Head Of Lettuce endorsed Biden. And Mr Lettuce lasted longer than you. Your "best by" date has passed!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Narcissist losers of a feather, flock together.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Considering how her month long stint as PM went, I fully welcome her endorsement of Trump

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see secret agent Truss is up to her old tricks again. truss-the-plan

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

May as well cancel the election now that it’s a forgone conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

and the West is "on the cusp" of conflict.> Partly because the orange idiot sucked up to them.

I know it's not a black and white case but he certainly didn't help, and still isn't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Deranged woman.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Of course she does. How was this woman ever Prime Minister? Even for a moment?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hope he dies and she endorses Biden. Best ending.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Her endorsement is meaningless because she's a political irrelevancy with less political foresight than a tin of sardines.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

She can speak???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sunik seems just as bad if not worse. Can any Brits elaborate on what it's like under him?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Truss was damaging the economy. This one's just utterly useless and keeps putting his foot in it. But he hasn't crashed the economy so that's a plus.

But he just bows down to the hard right, so even if he himself isn't hard right. So he is still pretty awful.

There is a reason no one likes him. He's completely useless so both the right and the left get irritated by him.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Ah, so we're lowering bars today.

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