No one thought to ask "How fast can we get through a PM cycle" before, but the British Conservatives have really made strides in optimizing the routing here. Electing someone with policies that are utterly irrational but nevertheless popular with the base, and then immediately trying to implement them in maximal form, really seems like it must be the dominant strategy. I don't know if even TAZbot can get much more out of this.
Imagine a primary election like you have in the US, but with a party that only has about 100,000 members, and they’re all nutters (that last part shouldn’t be too hard to imagine).
Inept? Dude, she did what they set her up to do: tanked the economy and made huge gains for hedge funds who knew her plans and bet against the pound, increased the interest rates on mortgages and made them unaffordable for a lot of people (ready to be bought out by hedge funds), lifted the fracking ban and opened the door for her rich sponsors to profit at the cost of the UK environment to name a few. Now she will be used as a most convenient scapegoat by her party to be blamed for anything and everything.
Similar issue here in Alberta, Canada. The Conservatives elected the worst Premiere we'd ever seen, and when he finally stepped down people thought it could only get better. Instead they elected the Laura Boebert of Canadian politics who has been doubling down on controversial viewpoints/conspiracy theories and issuing fake apologies on a near-daily basis. The right-wing surge across the globe is born from a place of ignorance and idiocy, and it shows. I suppose that's how one winds up on that side of the political spectrum to begin with.
Brexit is such a bad idea that only the worst mps will lead it. Since the party doesnt want to change tack and abandon brexit then you are stuck with only the most horrible of the con mps who are willing to be the leader trying to swallow a turd.
Genuinely not sure what response she was expecting with the "tax cuts for the rich" line in this economic climate. Possibly the dumbest real-life example of "surprised Pikachu face" in recent memory (and that's saying something, considering the abundant competition lately).
What we need now is a experienced, level headed individual who knows the ins and outs of Downing Street. There's only a single individual who can possibly save the country now.
Liz Truss is the first Prime Minister not to have had an episode of Doctor Who air during her premiership for the first time since the show started in 1963.
I feel like if you fire the PM this quickly, it should be grounds for a general election. Like, if you can’t make it 90 days before being turfed by your own party, something is so clearly rotten that the public should have a say, not just the party faithful (who, it must be said, have been doing worse with every successive candidate).
It's such a bizarre decision imo. It's one thing to have a Prime Minister who looks weak and quite another to make the entire Conservative party look weak.
I'd hate to have some tenant walk in, kill a monarch, cause £45 billion in damage then make like a lettuce and leaf before their deposit even cleared, to be fair.
If you're not familiar with British politics it might look like she chose to resign but the BBC reported that, prior to the announcement she "met with the chair of the 1922 Comittee" and those are the people in the party that have the power to call a vote of no confidence in the leader, so the only conclusion is that she was told that she was going to be removed as leader and if she wanted to save face she should just resign.
"I'm not a quitter, I'm a fighter!"
The Truss system
The gang crashes the economy
Title card: Liz Tanks a Country
Lol I came to say the exact same thing. She ate those words pretty quickly
I’m not sure if the Always Sunny music or the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme is more appropriate.
Elected, Queen dead, crash economy, forced to quit. All in less than two months
Literally a head of lettuce outlasted her. Absolute shitshow
Can someone explain to me who does not live in England how she crashed the economy so quickly? Why is that even possible?
Tories are seemingly way more efficient at ruining a country than our US equivalent
I was under the impression that the UK economy was already tanking under the last PM.
6 weeks. Speed run.
I'm guessing this is the shortest PM? Who was the 2nd?
Lasted exactly 4
Didn’t she say I’m a fighter not a quitter just yesterday? Lmao
Low% speedrun
No one thought to ask "How fast can we get through a PM cycle" before, but the British Conservatives have really made strides in optimizing the routing here. Electing someone with policies that are utterly irrational but nevertheless popular with the base, and then immediately trying to implement them in maximal form, really seems like it must be the dominant strategy. I don't know if even TAZbot can get much more out of this.
Yet the only prime minister of the 21st century to last two monarchy’s
UK is tanking to get good draft picks for next year. Truss the process.
Big Truss
No no this is Britain they're going to be relegated at this rate.
Resign as PM to get in Wembanyama’s DMs
United Kingdom, let’s resign
Even the Brits know only Wemby can save them
Arteta in?
The Process v3.0
That speech was as long as her term. Yikes
She can't talk about her accomplishments
She smiled half of the time too, utterly without shame
Well somebody didn't live up to their idol.
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She did manage more monarchs than Thatcher.
That’s actually really kinda sad if she intentionally took all those photos to mimick someone else.
She lasted 44 days but somehow had more monarchs than the previous 14 PM's did.
“Served at the pleasure of two monarchs” looks better on a resume.
She lasted 44 days but somehow had more monarchs than the previous 14 13 PM's did.
This is all just a ploy anyway.
Out by X-mas was the title afterall!
Out by Halloween
Out by tomorrow lunchtime
End of an error
I don't know if it's the end. They could still pick another dipshit.
This is such a historic moment, events like this only come around every few months.
Technically it is historic. She is the PM with the shortest tenure in the history of the UK.
"I'm not a quitter, I'm a fighter"
Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard outlasted her 😭
Shortest time as PM in history.
Johnson announced his resignation on 7 July and Truss became Prime Minister on 6 September - 61 days later.
Seriously?
Wasn’t 10 days of her term basically people queuing!!??
Hahaha, fucking hell.
if I am not wrong, the process to choose between her and Rishi Sunak took longer than her tenure as PM
Imagine a primary election like you have in the US, but with a party that only has about 100,000 members, and they’re all nutters (that last part shouldn’t be too hard to imagine).
Inept? Dude, she did what they set her up to do: tanked the economy and made huge gains for hedge funds who knew her plans and bet against the pound, increased the interest rates on mortgages and made them unaffordable for a lot of people (ready to be bought out by hedge funds), lifted the fracking ban and opened the door for her rich sponsors to profit at the cost of the UK environment to name a few. Now she will be used as a most convenient scapegoat by her party to be blamed for anything and everything.
Similar issue here in Alberta, Canada. The Conservatives elected the worst Premiere we'd ever seen, and when he finally stepped down people thought it could only get better. Instead they elected the Laura Boebert of Canadian politics who has been doubling down on controversial viewpoints/conspiracy theories and issuing fake apologies on a near-daily basis. The right-wing surge across the globe is born from a place of ignorance and idiocy, and it shows. I suppose that's how one winds up on that side of the political spectrum to begin with.
Brexit is such a bad idea that only the worst mps will lead it. Since the party doesnt want to change tack and abandon brexit then you are stuck with only the most horrible of the con mps who are willing to be the leader trying to swallow a turd.
Imagine being the longest-reigning monarch and dying during the term of the shortest-serving PM. Astronomical odds.
Imagine being in power for less time than your leadership campaign.
If the tory party keep this up, Charles might have more PMs to his name than his mom by the time of his coronation
Shortest serving PM so far!
For context, the shortest running pm before her was George Canning who lasted 118 days before his death!
...and both were Liz
Honestly feels like we’re in a computer simulation
“Who was prime minister when queen Elizabeth II died” is gonna be a really good trivia question in the future
And even a
Lettuce never forget her legacy.
Her only purpose was to make Boris look good by comparison.
She did what none of the colonies could do in 70 years. 🫡
Probably an wallstreetbets OG.
Truly, this has been mind blowing.
and gets 115K p/a for the rest of her life as she was a former prime minister
“There are decades-long premierships where nothing happens, and there are month-long premierships where decades happen.”
I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKIIIIIIIIIIIIIING BALL
Genuinely not sure what response she was expecting with the "tax cuts for the rich" line in this economic climate. Possibly the dumbest real-life example of "surprised Pikachu face" in recent memory (and that's saying something, considering the abundant competition lately).
Remember, she's a "fighter not a quitter". 🤣🤣🤣
Larry, the Chief Mouser of 10 Downing street would probably do a better job than the last 2 idiots
Larry is the only one in Downing Street able to get the rats out
He has my vote!
Couldn't even outlast a lettuce
Currently 18,764 people watching a lettuce outlast Liz. Epic
Put that fucker lettuce for PM!
Literally just watched her being laid to rest live lol
That reminds me I’ve had an onion in my fridge longer than her PM career( idk if I wanna call it a career).
We all knew she wouldn't Romaine in power long.
Well done madam Lettuce! She truly served the people.
4 Scaramuccis, she should be proud of herself.
One Scaramucci is a quarter of a Truss
Not to be pedantic but it’s 4.1 - from the man himself. Ha
Hard to believe the Queen had to meet her and swear her in only for her to resign weeks later
I don't think the queen's that bothered at this point
Poor Quinee, she only missed a chance to outlive another PM bby just 6 weeks. That must be a bummer
LMAO. Wtf is happening in the UK
What on earth is happening in the House of Commons
Thread is moving fast but I'm going to try and paraphrase it partly as practice to explain it to a Canadian friend.
We're coming onto our 5th Prime Minister in just 6 years. Absolute chaos.
The Conservative party represents the very wealthy and sent out a scapegoat for slaughter for their tax cuts.
Ruin a country any % speedrun
Lettuce Wins
Flawless Victory
Just call a general election and put an end to the Tory shit show.
They would never do that. They know they would have no chance so they just elect their own.
Call a general election and somehow still get voted in.
I'm genuinely baffled they get to pick the next leader after the previous two resigned in disgrace.
Absolutely insane that we're getting ANOTHER leader that 99.9% of the country can't vote on. Ridiculous
Well they might put in boris, technically he has a democratic mandate, and I can't quite believe I'm saying that.
A Truss with no support?
Okay, let's make outlandish bets for the new PM.
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Larry, Chief mouser
The queen
Big Sam
The ghost of Winston Churchill
Charles Dance
The lettuce
Larry the cat at 10 Downing!
Karl Pilkington
Lord Buckethead of course!
Mr. Bean
Kaleb
Boris Johnson
Gordon Ramsay
Hugh Laurie in character as Dr. Gregory House
Richard Ayoade
What we need now is a experienced, level headed individual who knows the ins and outs of Downing Street. There's only a single individual who can possibly save the country now.
Why, and please hear me out, why not an election? Are they out of fashion now or something?
Ozzy Osbourne. After all, he is moving back to the UK.
Victoria Beckham
Whoever Prince Andrew replaced Jeffrey Epstein with to get third world prostitutes from
Matt berry
I can't believe it. The fucking lettuce won.
I don’t know what the lettuce means and at this point I’m too afraid to ask meme.
Wild scenes at Lettuce HQ
The lettuce won
The shortest serving UK Prime Minister in history.
Kills the Queen then quits.
Don't forget, she crashed UK's economy as well.
Liz Truss is the first Prime Minister not to have had an episode of Doctor Who air during her premiership for the first time since the show started in 1963.
Prince Charles to Boris Johnson: “Dear oh dear'. 'So you've come back again?”
I feel like if you fire the PM this quickly, it should be grounds for a general election. Like, if you can’t make it 90 days before being turfed by your own party, something is so clearly rotten that the public should have a say, not just the party faithful (who, it must be said, have been doing worse with every successive candidate).
It's such a bizarre decision imo. It's one thing to have a Prime Minister who looks weak and quite another to make the entire Conservative party look weak.
Just another braindead conservative. Maybe the next one will work this time.
Lol Thatcher wasn't embalmed, they only need to do that to preserve something that was originally alive and made from organic materials
How about they actually have an election now?? Cause this is getting silly now.
Why would they call an election they would surely lose?
This has to be the worst PM tenure in the history of PM tenures.
the worst PM tenure in the history of PM tenures...so far!
The IMF had to go in and criticize a "First World Country" which is very rare.
She’s down a lot of damage in a short time. But I’d wager others have done more harm by staying in longer and getting more bad shit done.
The lettuce wins
She said she'd have a legacy...
General election now!
Question from an American - what would trigger a general election?
3 torie prime ministers 3 resignations actually laughable
My count is 4. Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss
Well, that was a spectacular failure.
“I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability.” And decided to make it worse
For my fellow Americans unaccustomed to the metric system:
1.7078 milli-Elizabeth II's
4.1 according to the man himself
“I’m resigning but that doesn’t mean I’m a quitter!”
Italy: Our government is shit but it’s fine cos it replaces itself every 6months or so
Italy: We said 6 months not 6 weeks!
I'm from America and we have our own problems (lots of em), but seriously UK, what the hell's going on?
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Rishi coming back???
Wow England has been in a spiral since they decided to leave the EU. Almost seems like voting for a bunch of xenophobic losers doesn't work.
The absolute cheek of Liz Truss claiming that she was resigning because she could not “deliver the mandate” on which she was elected.
Dumb question here; Did she physically move her stuff into Downing Street? I'd hate to have to pack again after just 45 days.
I'd hate to have some tenant walk in, kill a monarch, cause £45 billion in damage then make like a lettuce and leaf before their deposit even cleared, to be fair.
No, the Tories store their personal possessions in the shadow realm and only summon things if they need them
There are staff for that.
Lasted only 4 mooches. Will the lettuce be the new unit of time?
She didn’t even last a full lettuce, though.
4 Mooches in a Truss. 8 Trusses in a year. We could build a calendar off this.
What will happen to the Pork Markets now? How will it last.
It's wild to me that they just...resign. Here in the US, we almost couldn't get trump out of the Whitehouse.
If you're not familiar with British politics it might look like she chose to resign but the BBC reported that, prior to the announcement she "met with the chair of the 1922 Comittee" and those are the people in the party that have the power to call a vote of no confidence in the leader, so the only conclusion is that she was told that she was going to be removed as leader and if she wanted to save face she should just resign.
Shortest serving Prime Minister in history lol
They'll put us through this as many times as it takes before it gets to 2024. The gigantic, blue turd that just can't be flushed.
The lettuce wins...
Another one bites the dust
She was in power for less time than her leadership campaign.
The sad thing, being a Brit, I’m not even happy about this news.
Sometimes I wonder if the US & UK governments compete to put on the biggest shit-show.
Maybe she was a Lib Dem sleeper agent after all, just playing the long game
Definitely ANTIFA. Everything that makes conservatives look bad is someone else’s fault.
THE HEAD OF LETTUCE OUT LASTED HER
This is some Black Mirror shit.
In my lifetime I’ve seen 8 PMs.
I just want to offer my congratulations to the 81,326 Tory members who managed to pick the shortest lived PM in UK history.
Well, that was quick. Circus keeps on delivering.
Honest to God, Britain's recent history, 2016 onwards; The History Books for school will have more Drama & Fantasy than GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire.
44 days, Almost crashed the Economy made her rich friends richer and quit and now gets 115k of tax payers money for life.
Truss couple of days ago
Looks like the people lost Truss in her
She was clearly going for the Prime minister any% speedrun.