PieFedLiz Truss leaves stage over ‘I crashed the economy’ lettuce banner
www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/1…
Former PM said ‘that’s not funny’ when remote-controlled banner was unfurled behind her at event in Suffolk
Last part of the article with a grain of "nottheonion" vibe :
Truss has become vocal on US politics, last month addressing Republican supporters to learn lessons from her brief time in No 10. She insisted: “I’ve learned how powerful the unelected bureaucracy is. You have to win in November … you have to dismantle the leftist state … they are devious, they are ruthless and they are out to get you.”
The former prime minister has previously criticised the Daily Star’s lettuce joke, insisting it was not “particularly funny”, noting in June: “I just think it’s puerile.”
She went on to criticise the British media, claiming it was “known throughout the world for being particularly vociferous” and it is not “particularly deferential to politicians”.
The banner stunt came shortly after Truss voiced her support for Elon Musk, who has claimed the UK has a two-tier policing system. She said on X: “I am appalled by the attacks on free speech in Britain and Europe. We can’t be truly free without free speech. Good for Elon Musk and X for standing up to these bullies.” Musk responded, thanking her for support.
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HegarHaving proved herself too stupid and incompetent for even british politics, her only choice is to pivot to supporting republicans.
Have you not heard anything she has to say? She's one of THOSE people that think everyone is out to get her because she can't understand the logic of why she is so widely disliked. Basically a US Republican. She's even homophobic and bigoted to boot!
If you have the audacity to write a book with such a grand title as "Ten Years to Save the West" then you shouldn't have been in a position that a cabbage banner sporting a single factual statement can undermine you like that in the first place
Truss has become vocal on US politics, last month addressing Republican supporters and urging them to learn lessons from her brief time in No 10. She said: “I’ve learned how powerful the unelected bureaucracy is. You have to win in November … you have to dismantle the leftist state … they are devious, they are ruthless and they are out to get you.”
I don’t see how she’s qualified to say jack shit about US politics.
“She was applauded by some as she left”. One person if you listen to the video.
Coelacanth
This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥her new book *Ten Years to Save the West.*
Lmao this cunt wasn't PM for even ten weeks.
donI’d’ve figured that the UK is too mature of a country to have anyone in it who’d support elump, but I guess those types are to be found everywhere. Shame, though.
mojofrododojo
jordanlundIt's not funny... it's HILARIOUS!
Gsus4I felt a little bit sorry for her before I watched the video...and...hearing her say "It's the economy, stupid" and then the banner...it's a masterpiece. I can't stop watching it 😁
It’s like watching an old slapstick pie-to-the-face routine, except the surprise is genuine. Truly, it’s majestic.
CileTheSane"they are suppressing my free speech" says woman invited to be on stage in front of a crowd of people and say anything she wants.
Deebster[Truss complained that the British press wasn't] “particularly deferential to politicians”
Why should they be? Their job should be to inform the public, not suck up to those in power.
I’ve learned how powerful the unelected bureaucracy is. You have to win in November … you have to dismantle the leftist state … they are devious, they are ruthless and they are out to get you.
Those are called voters.
FuglyDuckpretty sure... uhm. do sheep eat lettuce?
Cows? maybe? or perhaps horses?
Well, it also included bankers and other financial types, economists and captains if industries, classic leftist material and bureaucracy according to truss, who were all hearing the economic equivalent of "terrain beep boop pull up" from their instruments and started yelling for somebody to do something.
They suppressed free speech... by speaking.
I don't really get the joke, though. Lettuce?
There was a bet at the time she came into office that she would last less than an iceberg lettuce because of her outrageous policy proposals. She lasted 45 days before the pension funds collapsed and she was replaced, meanwhile, the lettuce persevered in its side dish career.
Hahaha!
The real joke is in the comments. That's amazing.
They can never laugh it off, that's all they need to do, but they don't have the capacity to laugh at themselves.
mortimerSo, these “far-left activists” according to Truss “intimidate people and suppress free speech”. By doing what exactly? Speaking freely? Isn't activism such as this an example of free speech? No surprise there that she supports Donald Trump. Just another smug, privileged little shit that lives in the Upside-Down. 45 days to crash the economy is pretty impressive. And despite such a piss-poor performance, she is entitled to all the financial perks that come with being a former Prime Minister (perks that are quite substantial incidentally). The sheer bare-faced audacity of this turd utterly astounds me.
AllNewTypeFaceShe makes like a lettuce and leaves
LungI got disrupted!! They are taking away my free speech by disrupting me!! On my book tour!! It's a security threat!! I have to go!! Trump is the best!! Love you Elon, thanks for X!!
-ex british pm of 45 days
ThePowerOfGeekAnd her without a parliamentary seat now too. Poor think will be Romaine aimlessly around not knowing what to do with herself.
AkasazhButterhead still will look silly
To paraphrase a popular English football (soccer) chant:
🎶 It's happened again. It's happened again. Liz Truss' lettuce, it's happened again! 🎶
Liz Truss makes for a better parody version of herself than the best comedian. She's is so inept in public.
Such a shame on the activists to spread disinformation. It was Lizzy who crushed the economy, #NOT THE LETTUCE!
Klanky
You fucking clown, you are the unelected bureaucracy. It was you (unelected) and the people you put in charge of the economy (unelected) who fucked everything up.
It's also a little amusing that what brought her down was ultimately the markets doing their thing. Assets in the free market changing in price is not the work of some unelected bureaucracy, that's capitalism.
Liz Truss was brought down by capitalism, and greedy investors being smarter than her at predicting the future. She just can't say that, or perhaps refuses to believe it.
Capitalism is something that's supposed to be forced on other people, not them.
She could avoid all this unpleasantness by fucking off for good instead of clinging onto relevance. She deserves worse, but I absolutely love this banner.
Aint no way she actually supports trump and musk, thats wild. Her brain already has, but may the rest of her too, rot like the lettuce.
She desperately wants to stay relevant, but doesn’t seem to realise her political career is basically dead.
She literally had her shot at the top job and absolutely, monumentally, historically fucked it.
Her political career IS dead. She lost her seat, so is no longer an active politician.
This is all to push her book, which has been widely panned by practically everyone that isn't a brain-dead moron. I genuinely would love to know how many thick cunts are in that room with her, because they are truly up there with Clacton in being the dumbest people in the country.
At least the banner didn't tack on, "and killed the Queen while I was at it."
What? But she was so good for the British economy! Didn't you hear about the apples?
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/liz-truss-tried-to-boast-about-exporting-apples-to-india-it-didnt-go-well-281247/
Amazing how someone can be so right but twisted 180 degrees!
Like the US, the UK DOES have a two-tier policing system: the far right riot in the streets of most if not all major cities in England (based on an Islamophobic RUMOR) and get coddled, while the left are brutalized by cops at peaceful protests (against racial discrimination and corporations hastening the demise of the human race) if they even manage to avoid being THROWN IN JAIL FOR SEVERAL YEARS FOR PLANNING A PEACEFUL PROTEST!
It's amazing how the privileged bullies can just pretend that the opposite of reality is true and gain support for it!
Huh, never noticed how similar it sound between Liz Truss Leaves and Lettuce Leaf
Articles like this need a clear shot of the banner.
Best I've found:
There's video from the group Led By Donkeys.
The slow-motion drop of that banner makes it all the funnier
I thought the sad three claps when she left were particularly hilarious too
Were they applauding her? or applauding her leaving? or applauding the banner?
Definitely applauding her as it started when she got up and left and the claps were just so sad...
Fantastic!
Way to stick it to that weirdo! That hilarious!
I love that she wore a green dress.
Epic.
The economy? I thought brexit and the morons that voted for it was to blame for that
She specifically enacted an absolutely financially disastrous tax cut that ballooned the national debt for extremely little gain in her extremely brief tenure.
I initially read mormons, and wanted to know why they were fucking up the UK
It’s kind of just their bag
Sounds like she's so toxic even to Tories that she perceives her only political future is on the far right. She's still Liz Truss though, so she won't even be any particular leader in that sphere, just a show pony to trot out as a convert, and maybe to hide in the back office if they actually gain enough power to have to do something administratively complex.
gotta love some good old British trolling
lol, wanker.
Briefcase wanker!
I don't think it was meant to be funny, genius.
I thought it was funny.
Says woman that wasn't elected.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvTtr5JfoMo