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  #2985914 21-Oct-2022 17:07
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Great monologue / trolling from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah :

G_d damn, Britain, another prime minister? Another prime minister? And this one only lasted 44 days. Boris Johnson had COVID parties that were longer than that.

You realize how hard it is to get tired of somebody this quickly? Usually, politicians get a period of time where you like them first, and then you hate them. But Britain hated Liz Truss basically from day one.

Imagine being on a first date-- on a first date with someone, and they're like, oh, I'm so sick of all your sh_t. Like, but we just met. It's like, I know, and I'm suffocating.

Actually, if this was a relationship, I feel like, at this point, Britain's friends would be sitting down with it like, listen, honey, you've been through four prime ministers in six years. They can't all be the problem, huh? I'm just saying, maybe it's time to turn the vote of no confidence on yourself. Yeah?

In fact, for the next prime minister, maybe the UK should take things a little slow. Yeah, this is chaos. For the next one, maybe-- maybe don't put a label on it. It's so much pressure, the prime minister. Maybe just have them be the person who lives at 10 Downing Street. In fact, don't even live there. Just sleep over here and there, you know? Yeah, then maybe leave a toothbrush behind, you know, and then they get a drawer for their clothes. And then, when you're sure that this is the prime minister for you, then you bring them to meet your friends at the G7. How about that? You know? Like, yeah, yeah, we're a thing now. We're a thing.

Oh, and by the way, remember, the reason Liz Truss lost her job is because she came into office making worse decisions than a company's social media manager during Black History Month-- terrible budget plans, firing finance ministers, going back on her own policies, sending the queen to meet Jesus.

...Right now Britain's parliament sounds more chaotic than a family reunion at Herschel Walker's house.

REPORTER: "Yesterday was a shambolic day for her. We heard early in the day that her interior minister, the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, had resigned over an issue over improper use of her emails. And then later in the day, we heard that she had in fact been fired. And then there was a vote in the House of Commons, which descended into chaos. Some lawmakers allege that government officials were actually physically pushing them, intimidating them into making decisions that they wouldn't otherwise have made. One lawmaker even alleged that some MPs were crying in the toilets of the House of Commons. "
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  #2985966 21-Oct-2022 21:05
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Iceberg lettuce in blond wig outlasts Liz Truss

 

 

A wilting 60p iceberg lettuce from Tesco in a blond wig has been crowned the winner of a bizarre competition after outlasting Liz Truss’s tenuous grip on power.

 

 

Seven days ago the Daily Star set up a webcam on the lettuce to see if it would have a longer shelf-life than the prime minister. To add to Truss’s humiliating resignation, the lettuce won.

 

 

That's going to feature in trivia quizzes for decades to come.

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  #2985984 22-Oct-2022 02:04
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After only 44 days in office, Liz Truss is now entitled to a lifetime annual allowance of up to £115,000 (NZD225,000).

 

Despite her short time in office, on her resignation she became eligible for the Public Duty Costs Allowance — a government reimbursement plan for costs, including staff and salary costs, incurred by former prime ministers “arising from their special position in public life” after they leave office.





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  #2986258 22-Oct-2022 16:07
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Mock the Week
21 Oct 22
"The End."


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  #2986357 22-Oct-2022 21:29
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Not Truss-specific but covering all of the recent Tory PMs including Truss, from the Financial Times:

 

 

The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK

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  #2986426 22-Oct-2022 23:55
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neb: Not Truss-specific but covering all of the recent Tory PMs including Truss, from the Financial Times:

The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK

Things are quite bad if a traditionaliy conservative publication says conservative government policy is a total disaster and there's no end of trouble in sight.

 
 
 
 

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  #2987345 24-Oct-2022 16:26
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The last days of Truss were an utter shambles. Then the real chaos began.

 

 

The plunging pound had not done it. The wholesale dumping of a budget did not do it. A complete collapse in party discipline that led to MPs cursing colleagues and others sobbing did not do it. Even the resignation of Liz Truss, making her Britain’s shortest serving prime minister by some distance, was not enough.

 

 

Yet as allies of Boris Johnson immediately let it be known that he was planning to stand for party leader again, just minutes after Truss had retreated into Downing Street at the end of her humiliating resignation speech, a Tory MP with long-lasting doubts about the party’s direction said they were now finally contemplating their future within it.

 

 

“If Boris wins, all bets are off,” they said. “Defections, people resigning the whip. It’s all on the table now. I’m starting to realise that I have so little in common with a large number of colleagues.”

 

 

Note: Don't assume Boris won't run anyway after he's said he won't. As a serial liar he's done exactly this pretty much every single time in the past, to the point where promising he won't do X almost guarantees he'll then do it.

 

 

Anyway, the Economist recently copped some flak for its Welcome to Britaly headline, but I reckon it's only a matter of time before Italian publications are complaining that if Giorgia Meloni gets any worse she'll start to make Italy look like the UK.

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  #2987360 24-Oct-2022 16:53
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Boris is out. Sunak will be PM on Monday.


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  #2987364 24-Oct-2022 17:40
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This looks every bit to be a continuing crisis. The Guardian (left) published an editorial telling Labour to tell voters about how bad Brexit is and how it will not get better. The Times (center-right) published an editorial saying something similar to the next Conservative prime minister.

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  #2987527 24-Oct-2022 22:41
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Labour will not revisit brexit. They risk alienating a large chunk of their potential voters if they do.


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  #2988114 25-Oct-2022 22:59
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For anyone wanting a backgrounder on recent UK history in order to understand how we got here, I can't recommend Philomena Cunk's British history series enough, the one covering recent UK history being Episode 5:

 

 

Suddenly, it seemed like we could do anything if we put our minds to it, even stop moaning. It was a great time to be British
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Edited to add: There's also a great explanation of how the UK political system works, including gems like:

 

 

According to Google translate, Magma Carta is Latin for cardboard volcano

 
 
 

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  #2988156 26-Oct-2022 08:52
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Not sure what you are referring to but

 

Magna Carta Libertatum to give it the full name is Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms".

 

By declaring the sovereign to be subject to the rule of law and documenting the liberties held by “free men,” the Magna Carta provided the foundation for individual rights.

 

 


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  #2988159 26-Oct-2022 08:57
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SJB:

 

Not sure what you are referring to but

 

Magna Carta Libertatum to give it the full name is Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms".

 

By declaring the sovereign to be subject to the rule of law and documenting the liberties held by “free men,” the Magna Carta provided the foundation for individual rights.

 

 

 

 

For the privileged few.

 

 





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