Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls
Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls
The former prime minister brings a speech to an abrupt end when the banner - which also reads "I crashed the economy" - appears.
She's right, that's not funny. I'm still paying a stupidly high mortgage rate because of her.
But pranking her like this and watching the reaction, is indeed really funny.
46What did she do to make people's mortgages go up?
2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CswZ8Fbl80
Here's a short video summary if you're interested in some hilariously fucked up UK politics.
The first 45 sec of the video will set the stage for you.
6Tried to force through a budget that brought the UK within hours of a greek style total economic collapse until the bank of England stepped in to unfuck things because it was just going to be that bad if they didn't.
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My mortgage, which I had to pretty much sacrifice 5 years of my social life and live like a pauper to even secure, given how crazy house prices are in this country, has went up £400 per month because of her. I'm on the minimum wage of £22,300 per year for a full-time job.
A lot of the problems in my life right now are directly because of Truss.
Boo fucking hoo if she doesn't like being reminded of how much of a failure she was, is, and will forever continue to be. It's a small price to pay compared to what plenty of others are facing.
39What did she do to cause that?
6Tried 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.
13This is a good question and you shouldn't be downvoted for asking it.
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The problem with Truss is that she has nothing to fall back to career wise for the rest of her life. Apart from that outrageous PM pension she has nothing to do to pass her time. Because anytime she wants to get even loosely involved in politics, the lettuce will remind her of her last attempt. And I'm absolutely fine with that 👍.
35If it makes you feel any better she doesn't get that pension https://fullfact.org/online/liz-truss-annual-allowance/
15Sadly she has a long string of speaking gigs. Her and Boris charge a premium for it.
11It's all she can do. She could try to parlay her political experience into management or consultancy, but it's clear to everyone that she was ultimately very bad at everything except climbing the greasy pole to the top of an organization full of unpleasant weirdos. Once she had the responsibility to lead in the wider world, she revealed herself as clueless.
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What I learned from this article:
- Liz Truss has no sense of humour
- Liz Truss is intimidated by a picture of lettuce with googly eyes.
Why are far-right people so fucking weird?!
28Why are far-right people so fucking weird?!
I think it's just the reverse. The really weird ones think that far-right policies have any mass market appeal.
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It’s not like a well compensated, prestigious job like prime minister requires accountability, a sense of duty or decency in 2024. Take it on the chin Liz, even if you’re fired. That was part of the deal.
24Oh that's brilliant and I wish I could shake the hand of the madlad who did this. They should sell merch. As for her statement about it being "intimidation and stifling free speech," well nobody forced you to walk off the stage you dumb bitch. But sure, go cry victim lol
I'd buy a pin or flag of that googly-eyed lettuce, and I'm an American.
15They're an outfit called Led By Donkeys and you can donate or buy an upcoming book. Reach out to them on social media and tell them you would buy a lettuce.
7"other people talking stifles my free speech"
3The thing is they keep doing this. Security in those buildings is absolutely terrible, since some random person manages to walk in, affix a complicated device, with electronics and everything, onto the ceiling, and then leave. All without anyone noticing them.
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to the delight of us all
12It’s mad that our cast-off politicians and celebs can be proven failures (Truss, Farage, Corden, Morgan etc) and the yanks will still roll out the red carpet for them because they think our failure cast-offs have an air of sophistication about them.
11Well, it was founded on a lot of Europes rejects….
7The only one that hasn't made the move is Jeremy Clarkson.
0Clarkson is literally doing more to help farming in Britain than anyone else
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Lol no. Send them to the French. Your Tories are twats
-2Why would the French want them? The only foreign for language these idiots know is bad Latin.
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If I was her I would never wear green again
9i have come to terms with the fact that conservatives have no shame or pride and they'll weasel in and out of every opportunity to make a cent more.
but i don't understand how you bring out your 4.5-scaramucci-ass joke of a presence to any venue and not only be surprised that people make fun of you but you get all pissy about it and fuck off as if you have any dignity? too late truss, if you had any dignity you would dig a hole and stay in it until you die.
3I think she was in on it for the publicity. She was even wearing a matching dress. She would probably call it a frock though.
3When you are an asshole and an idiot at the same time and get treated like one - don't be that surprised, Liz. The Lettuce was your boss level monster, and you lost. And now it made you run away from reality again.
All I can say is Go, Lettuce Go!
2Lizteria. Is that Lettuce hysteria?
2I kinda feel bad for the interviewer if he had nothing to do with this
1He made the decision to deliberately be in the same room as Liz Truss while she was going to be speaking. This is on him
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