The freshly resigned Liz Truss’ run as prime minister wasn’t able to outlast a head of lettuce
The Daily Star livestreamed a head of lettuce to see if it would wilt before Truss stepped down
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British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned earlier today, ending her time at the wheel of a slow-motion political car crash that she seemed as befuddled to witness as the rest of us. Truss will go down in official history as the United Kingdom’s shortest-serving PM, but her brief term may be more popularly remembered in simpler terms: She couldn’t outlast a head of lettuce.
A lettuce livestream was created by The Daily Star, which was in turn inspired by The Economist writing last week that Truss’ only managed to hold onto any real power as PM for about a week, which is “roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce.”
The stream has been running since last Friday, October 14th, and shows the head of lettuce sitting on a table next to a clock and two miniature Union Jacks. The accompanying video description sums up the experiment by asking the question, “Will Liz Truss still be Prime Minister within the 10-day shelf-life of a lettuce?”
Over the past six days, the lettuce wore googly eyes and a wig, rested with a sleep mask over its green face, and was served coffee and sausage rolls for breakfast. Now, still triumphantly edible following Truss’ resignation, it’s been served drinks, celebrating the fact that a humble head of lettuce has endured where Britain’s Conservative Party has faltered.
Now that the vegetable has served its main purpose, it may also, unlike the PM who led to its celebrity status, be of some use to the country by being placed in a sandwich or used to make a salad that provides actual nourishment.
[via The New York Times]
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I don’t know why this is reminding me of having a chicken pick the Super Bowl winner or something.
There’s a nonzero chance the Tory party, in a desperate bid for approval and because they have no viable leader, vote Larry the Cat as their next leader, so… yeah.
Larry’s approval ratings are already higher than Boris and Liz’s peak combined scores and he’s less likely to publicly embarrass himself than either. Otherwise the pickings were slim to begin with – who’s left? Sunak? Mordaunt? The lettuce?
Dig up Thatcher. Someone will probably vote for it.
Anyone who knows knows that Larry the Cat has been the shadow regent for the past decade anyway.
Larry, unlike several Chief Mousers of the past, has actually been established to have killed several mice, meaning he is competent at his job. That probably disqualifies him as no Tory PM in recent years has even been good at theirs.
Because that seems to be how her government selected economic policies?
This ‘contest’ is/was such brilliant satire. /chef’s_kiss
“Will Liz Truss still be Prime Minister within the 10-day shelf-life of a lettuce?” I don’t get it. Why are we pretending that she lasted less than ten days?By this weird logic she also didn’t outlast the coffee that I bought this morning.
…we live in strange times
We also live in times where Kinja is broken and frequently refuses to display images or videos. Sorry.
It’s the Tweet freaking Medvedev of all people made saying goodbye to Truss and “congratulating” the lettuce
*Truss’s
**Truss’es’s
***Trus’s
+Tru$$
Trussn’t
Hey, she lasted a whole 4 and a half Scaramucci’s. Not bad.
But can she do the Fandango?
You know its bad when me, an American, can look over at Britain and feel better about our political scene. You people are fucked.
The only thing that would make me feel better about our political scene is if all MAGAts moved to Florida and, well, Bugs, take it away…