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Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister
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#24Yes, Prime Minister.
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#25Wikipedia has a new candidate for whose photo to put in the glass cliff article.
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#26Can anyone explain why??
> why?
"How did you go bankrupt?"
"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
UK politics became intellectually bankrupt in 2016. Promises no longer needed to have a connection to reality. Isolationism could be sold as "pro-growth" etc.
The disconnect has been growing gradually. The voters loved the pie-in-the-sky promises. So each leader's promises were more unrealistic than the last. They selected for ever more ideological belief, over pragmatism and admitting the downsides of choices. But who would be holding the can when the bill came due?
The responses that "She was terrible" are not wrong, but you have to also ask why such a charmless, incompetent-and-unaware-of-it character came to be in power.
This is the culmination of the Brexit ideology, make no mistake.
This is the "Suddenly" phase.
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#27Can anyone explain why??
Because she caused fast, massive damage to the UK economy with her economic plan on which she was already advised was untenable even during her leadership race with Rishi. Yesterday there was a vote on banning fracking with a three-line whip on Tory MPs to vote no, but which many Tory MPs are very much for, which was very controversial, with bullying and forced voting using physical means (physically pushing the MPs into the side to vote no by force). Suella Braverman yesterday also resigned as Home Secretary leaving a letter calling out the UK government as basically incompetent...
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#28Can anyone explain why??
She was terrible. She introduced a dramatic tax cut for the rich, which immediately crashed exchange rates and the stock market, and was even criticised by the rich it was meant to benefit.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate for those of us not hip enough for this meme(??)?
Someone set up youtube stream with a picture of Liz Truss and a lettuce. People in the chat could discuss what was likely to last longer, the lettuce or Liz Truss.
It was the daily star, one of the UKs tabloid newspapers, who often have "irreverant" approaches to the news, this one paid off for them I'd guess.
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#30so the lettuce [1] won. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-RE95lKJ0
Can you elaborate for those of us not hip enough for this meme(??)?
The Daily Star (a fairly low-rent tabloid newspaper in the UK) has been live-streaming a video of a lettuce for most of the week, as a competition to see whether Liz Truss will resign, or the lettuce reach its best-before date (10 days) first.