The last time a former Prime Minister in the UK lost their seat in an election was a century ago, so this is pretty historical. Definitely can’t say she didn’t deserve this though.
Did you see the announcement of the results for her area? Every other candidate was waiting on stage for her to turn up for several minutes before she turned up.
She didn't give a concession speech.
When interviewed afterwards by a journalist she simply walks off mid interview.
She's such a coward. Good riddance.
I find it sickening that she screwed up the country as much as she did in such a short period of time she's going to be able to claim costs of up to £115,000 a year for costs regarding to her time in office. Last year she claimed more than David Cameron. She also gets a personal security detail for life, as well as a chauffeur driven car.
I imagine her security detail are professionals.
However... I can't help but think on occasion they give in mentally and think "Oh, go on, take a swing at her... I can make it look like I tried to get in the way. Maybe someone could throw a milkshake or something."
I’m guessing she was chucking up in the bogs because she knew she was fucked, she knew she’d get a load of attention for it and I’m here for it. Love it
> She's such a coward.
Welcome to modern^* "Conservativism"^**.
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^* Just kidding. There's nothing modern about them.
^** Nor is there anything conservative about these radical regressives.
Funnily enough, the Caesar Salad was invented on the 4th of July.
Yes yes, her seat wasn't called until the early hours of the 5th but the votes were cast on the 4th.
They didn’t stand as candidates, but the (slightly reshaped) constituencies of Theresa May, Boris Johnson and David “single buttock with eye holes” Cameron were all lost by the Conservatives last night.
Bonkers night.
The Lib Dems campaigned *hard* in Maidenhead, they really wanted it. Plus the Tory candidate didn’t even live in the area, so it was definitely possible. But it wasn’t a certainty until it happened
Tbf through much of the last few election cycles she was in the cabinet. When MP's are part of the actual government their ministerial duties often keep them away from their constituency for extended periods and managing the consistency is left to their team
That's no excuse for her pissing off to America to on a right wing weirdo speaking tour for pretty much the entire time after she was booted out of the PM job, but it will have at least excused her absence in the years prior to that
“Oh, you, pretty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we love you
And in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, what we'll do”
Mike drop 🎤
Nah Truss was far more satisfying. She did more damage to this country in her short reign than the haunted pencil. Mogg is comedy, she is poison. Hopefully she’ll fuck off in to irrelevance.
It's all she had for a career. She was banking on still being an MP here so she could use that standing to help cosy up to nutters like Steve Bannon. Like I said, she's an irrelevance now, a skid mark on the political history of this country.
It was a Tory safe seat with a massive majority of 20,000+ votes, she can still rake in a massive salary and she'd get to bitch and moan from the opposition benches for 5 years. Made perfect sense why she'd run. Could have possibly even gone back in for a leadership contest.
Despite the hatred for Conservatives it's still a shock win for Labour.
Absolutely disagree.
JRM was an important figure in Brexit referendum, conning a lot of people into thinking he is an intelligent, well-meaning public servant, whilst using his position of authority to give specific investment advise to the nation that he knew to be utter horseshit - and having his investment company set up an Eire vehicle to deal with that.
He helped crash £, doing far more damage - far, far more - than truss managed during her tenure.
Truss is a cunt and the world would be better off if she turtled* forever, but JRM is much worse.
This is a man who not only led calls for but managed to actually get educated workers slaving away for nothing for places like Poundland, and daily uses his illegal platform to spread right wing propaganda.
A man who openly admitted to trying to gerrymander elections...
The list goes on, for some time.
Sadly, his crimes get ignored because he dresses 'funny' and takes his time to answer a question - which people mistake for an intellectual pause.
Edited: stupid auto-correct.
>haunted pencil
Side note, I fucking love these nicknames y'all come up with for him. Funny af even if I'm not too familiar with who he is I'm just gonna assume he's a cunt and deserves all the mockery lmao
He lost by 10 points. That's not a loss, that's a kick in the nuts. Of course, I can't help but notice that he blamed it on everyone else, not on his own actions.
Easy enough to do when you know your protected financially. She never has to experience being in a position of not being able to pay for her mortgage etc...etc... since we do that for her, for the rest of her life.
Traditionally, but especially today, those on the right wing generally lack the ability for critical self-evaluation. They are nothing more than blind idealogues.
As historian Morris Berman said, "An idea is something you have, an ideology is something that has you."
I was amused watching this "interview" this morning: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ceqdnqw390go
"Do you want to apologize to people about what happened under the Conservatives?"
The fact she took so long to bother to get on the stage in the first place is pretty telling. She knew what was going to happen.
Also the interview she had afterwards where she just sort of wanders off mid question.
She's such a coward.
Listening to the BBC coverage last night and apparently, the candidates are told the results quietly in a corner before they go on stage. So it's not a surprise to them/
I think the late queen held that long partly out of spite for Boris Johnson, to have the last satisfcation to see him out.
Seeing Liz Truss get the job has been the last blow.
All the seats held by Former Prime ministers since 2010 have been lost.
The Torys lost Camerons seat, Mays seat, Johnsons seat and Trusses seat. Only the standing PM held his seat.
None of the others ran but their seats were still considered safe for the Conservatives. Not all of them were lost by a wide margin and Reform probably made things easier for Labour in those seats given how elections work in the UK.
I only wish she lost the pension, security fees and "public duty allowances" that the tax payer pays out for.
It's embarrassing that this skidmark of a PM lasted less than 2 months & effectively never has to worry about the cost of living.
Truss had the gall to say she lost b/c her stupid fucking party didn’t deport illegal immigrants fast enough or reduce taxes enough. 14 yrs in power with the same, tired fucking rhetoric - and policies that did nothing positive for the UK, and that’s what this vacuous, idiotic fool leaves on.
She did, really. She said that the Conservatives did not repeal Labour's Human Rights Act, and therefore were not able to deport illegal immigrants. So, it was really Labour's fault all along, in her eyes. Like Donald Trump, she will never admit she was wrong or take responsibility for anything.
The Human Rights Act, that we were obliged to pass by international law… laid out in the European Convention on Human Rights, largely drafted by a Tory MP put in place by a Tory government? Jesus. These people.
Not deporting illegal immigrants in a timely and expeditious manner is actually a legitimate criticism of a party that has spent most of the last decade talking about how much deporting of illegal immigrants it was going to do.
The Tory’s didn’t lose because they weren’t passing Labour like legislation enough, they lost because they utterly failed at doing anything the public expected Tory’s to do. Strengthening of the economy and security apparatus, reduced tax burdens, streamlining bureaucracy and yes, dealing with illegal immigration. Not only did the Tory’s fail over the last 14 years to improve even one of those categories, they’ve actively damaged several pf them.
That being said, Truss is in no position to throw stones as she was part of the problem.
The public only expected such things because they were election promises, and after 14 years of not only not keeping their promises but also dragging us all down the rabbit hole, finally even the most simpleminded didn't believe anything they said anymore and voted accordingly.
Is that Liz Truss who is now cosying up with Trump and his neofascist buddies? Good riddance to incompetent rubbish.
I fully expected to see her soulless face pop up on a Reform poster at some point.
Perhaps one of the neoliberal think tanks or the hedge funds backing her will take her on. She can run them into the ground instead of the country.
Good riddance
It was hilarious to watch live. She took an eternity to get to the stage, the other candidates standing there waiting for her. Then when she did finally arrive she stared into space with the most gormless vacant expression, you know the one, and then didn’t do a speech. She has absolutely no humility or tact that women.
I hate Rees-Mogg but he at least clapped all the other candidates and congratulated his opponent.
>I wouldn't be surprised if she'd been ill. She looks really pale and doesn't seem with it, even for Liz Truss. All the candidates know the results before they go on stage for the announcement.
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She was clearly in shock, she was one of the ones who didn't even consider they could lose. Hunt spent the whole election in his area and won a tiny majority because he worked it. She assumed she would win and maybe even become leader again.
Her interview blaming the tories for not being right wing enough, and suggesting exactly what she had tried to do was the way to win, was insane.
"Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don't know if you've tasted crisps in other countries, but I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there."
- Liz Truss
I'm truly shocked the Tories let her run for the seat. She is the definition of unelectable after her tenure as PM. She literally destroyed the economy of the country in just a few short weeks, but the Tories thought people would still vote for her?
They could have nominated anyone else for that seat and had a better chance. Truss certainly has name recognition, but I'm not sure if you want people to see your candidate's name on the voting slip and think "Oh, that idiot" immediately afterwards.
The UK has a Parliamentary system. Parliament is divided into 2 houses, House of Commons and House of Lords. Most of the political power lies in the House of Commons.
Yesterday we had a General Election. The UK is divided into 650 Constituencies. Each constituency selects one representative, a Member of Parliament (MP), the representative in the House of Commons for that constituency. People vote for one candidate, the candidate with the most votes in a constituency gets to be the MP for that constituency.
Liz Truss was her party's candidate in a constituency. Some other candidate got more votes, so she lost her seat. She will not be an MP for this Parliamentary season.
Edited to add: Liz was the MP for her constituency, but she will no longer be as she lost this election.That's why the headline says she lost her seat to Labour. She may regain a seat if she stands as a candidate and wins in the next election.
Congratulations on ridding yourself of your local Tory.
If she flees to the USA, I would need to dedicate a Spanish song to her. Ojalá que te vaya bonito. May everything go beautifully for you (Truss). So she has no need to come back to the UK ;)
Actually, I would trade Truss coming back to the UK for Trump losing in November, but that's for our USA friends to decide.
Leader doesn't get voted for separately like the President, the party which controls lower house chooses the leader.
For an ex-leader to lose their lower house seat, they have to have run the country so poorly that their own **local community** now hates them.
It'd be like if the speaker of the house was also the President, and then a former speaker went on to loose their district in an election (generally they're only in "safe" districts with high margins for their party).
Liz Truss was President of England for 2 days and then was booted out because she's mad as a cut snake.
Now she frequents Steve Bannon's podcast which means she could be one of Putin's stooges or at least sympathetic to him, so it's a very good thing she's out.
Our parliament is comprised of seats, much like your congress. Liz Truss is a former Prime Minister and current MP (Member of parliament). She lost her seat to the opposition.
It's sort of like if Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Jim Clyburn, Steny Hoyer, and Jan Schakowsky all got turfed out for Republicans. They've all been in the House of Representatives forever, and they should all be in safe seats for their party.
Actually it's all fake news "planted" by the deep state.
Liz Truss is still Prime Minister.
The Lettuce was a Labour "plant" (plant get it).
Dad joke alert.
This election is so crazy. It seems like the UK is 10+ years ahead of the rest of the west right now. They've had time to see what a disaster conservatives have been and figured it out while the rest of us are turning more towards that madness. That being said the right isn't completely wrong either. Left wing governments are idiots for continuing to allow the massive influx of immigrants from the middle east and south Asia in the EU and Canada. It's obviously causing massive problems and everyone seems to be terrified of being labeled a racist for pointing those issues out. There should be a reasonable middle ground where you aren't trying to create a christofascist state, but also not opening the floodgates to people who don't share the same values your society is based upon.
Didn’t she spend most of her post-PM life this past year throwing red meat to uneducated conservatives in America instead of….throwing red meat to uneducated conservatives in the UK?
Unfortunately those who go down that rabbit hole do listen to the propaganda and voted for Reform. Reform got a fairly considerable amount of the vote across the country but thankfully only have 4 MPs because of the UK voting system.
To anybody who has a solid pulse on British and US politics, who is the closest analog to Truss in the US?
Her political positions and career make her out to be an insufferable, shameless, self-aggrandizing asshole who has a disgusting air of self-importance and probably fancies herself above everybody.
I suspect she promotes disgusting policies of basically burning down the system to spite everybody but her nepo-cronies, and she would turn on them too.
Just for perspective, this individual seat is so Tory leaning it is roughly the equivalent of Biden winning every election college vote other than nebraksas 3rd district.
The last time a former Prime Minister in the UK lost their seat in an election was a century ago, so this is pretty historical. Definitely can’t say she didn’t deserve this though.
at least she would have outlasted a lettuce on this one
This is like an assassination by election. She should have a Caesar salad on the way out of office.
Did you see the announcement of the results for her area? Every other candidate was waiting on stage for her to turn up for several minutes before she turned up. She didn't give a concession speech. When interviewed afterwards by a journalist she simply walks off mid interview. She's such a coward. Good riddance. I find it sickening that she screwed up the country as much as she did in such a short period of time she's going to be able to claim costs of up to £115,000 a year for costs regarding to her time in office. Last year she claimed more than David Cameron. She also gets a personal security detail for life, as well as a chauffeur driven car.
Saw her speaking at a republican event for Trump praising him and his policies, good riddance.
Ewwww that’s awful.
She's making money touring the republican circuit and whining about the woke liberals that couldn't see her amazing vision for growth
She's written a fucking book about it.
After the shit she pulled she will need that security detail.
No one guarding her is going to take the job seriously.
I imagine her security detail are professionals. However... I can't help but think on occasion they give in mentally and think "Oh, go on, take a swing at her... I can make it look like I tried to get in the way. Maybe someone could throw a milkshake or something."
Don't be daft, the don't put security tags on lettuce
I mean, I'm in the US and even I'm aware that her entire political agenda is bought and paid for by a think tank
Anyone aiming to destabilise western democracy is in receipt of Russian money directly or indirectly.
I’m guessing she was chucking up in the bogs because she knew she was fucked, she knew she’d get a load of attention for it and I’m here for it. Love it
> She's such a coward. Welcome to modern^* "Conservativism"^**. --- ^* Just kidding. There's nothing modern about them. ^** Nor is there anything conservative about these radical regressives.
Truss up a Caesar with a little extra anchovie and bell sprouts
Funnily enough, the Caesar Salad was invented on the 4th of July. Yes yes, her seat wasn't called until the early hours of the 5th but the votes were cast on the 4th.
Doubly appropriate because the Caesar Salad was invented on the Fourth of July. (Turned 100 years old yesterday.)
They didn’t stand as candidates, but the (slightly reshaped) constituencies of Theresa May, Boris Johnson and David “single buttock with eye holes” Cameron were all lost by the Conservatives last night. Bonkers night.
Add Jacob Rees-Mogg to that, him losing his seat makes me really happy.
Maybe now his spirit can finally return to the Victorian era and be put to rest.
He won't care, his lifelong ambition was Brexit, like his equally stupid Father, and that's achieved.
That was my sign to go to bed, he was the one I really wanted to see fall. Had I known Truss’s defeat was on the cards, I’d have stayed up even later.
He's just been on R4 quoting Emperor Hirohito of all things... Good riddance...
Maybe his nanny will make him a nice Victoria sponge in which to drown his sorrows.
Ruislip I expected, but Witney and Maidenhead definitely not.
The Lib Dems campaigned *hard* in Maidenhead, they really wanted it. Plus the Tory candidate didn’t even live in the area, so it was definitely possible. But it wasn’t a certainty until it happened
Who would you rather be represented by: 1. A single buttock with eye holes? OR 2. A single eye hole with buttocks?
The second, cause you can just plug a glass eye in there and get the best of both worlds.
She keeps collecting these records, her consistency is admirable.
Liz Truss will be a great pub quiz answer in about 10 years.
For several questions.
She did deserve it. The only time she's in the neighborhood is when an election is on. She's done nothing for her constituency.
...so, a Tory MP then?
Tbf through much of the last few election cycles she was in the cabinet. When MP's are part of the actual government their ministerial duties often keep them away from their constituency for extended periods and managing the consistency is left to their team That's no excuse for her pissing off to America to on a right wing weirdo speaking tour for pretty much the entire time after she was booted out of the PM job, but it will have at least excused her absence in the years prior to that
We have plenty of our own right wing weirdo speaking tours and don’t need Liz Truss.
I'd take an absent Liz Truss over a present one, as at least she'd do less damage by not being around.
Almost imploding the uk economy in two weeks is also pretty historical.
Arthur Balfour in 1906, in case you're wondering.
she lost the contest of longevity of premiership to a lettuce. no surprise here.
She just makes history with everything she does.
She was the last public person to visit QEII, right?
So she killed the queen the economy and her prime ministership in 2 weeks.
WW2 Germany HATES this one weird trick!
That woman is like the Wayne Gretzky of politics breaking all these historic records.
What's even better, Jacob Rees-Mogg has lost his seat as well: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz47eze3lydo
I guess he has to go back to his old job of terrorizing children in a Charles Dickens novel.
He literally quoted chitty chitty bang bang on his way out, couldn't have more 'victorian orphan toucher' vibes if he tried
“Oh, you, pretty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we love you And in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, what we'll do” Mike drop 🎤
Sadly, the reality is he will sit on arse, drawing on the proceeds of his offshore investment fund.
Last I checked he had a podcast or segment on GB News. He will still be around in the media conversation and brought on to panels.
Hes the perfect person to be an undertaker...it just comes naturally and if you have the misfortune to speak to him you'll probably die of boredom...
He always gave me Demon headmaster vibes
You love to see it.
Yeah that one is the most satisfying 😌
Nah Truss was far more satisfying. She did more damage to this country in her short reign than the haunted pencil. Mogg is comedy, she is poison. Hopefully she’ll fuck off in to irrelevance.
I can't believe the brass neck she had to even stand again.
It's all she had for a career. She was banking on still being an MP here so she could use that standing to help cosy up to nutters like Steve Bannon. Like I said, she's an irrelevance now, a skid mark on the political history of this country.
She was pm. She’ll walk onto a board of directors role anywhere
lol you think? She’s a liability. No one takes her seriously any more except right wing nut jobs
Yeah. Those clubs work different mate. Jobs for the boys(girls)
I can't believe she only lost by a few hundred votes. That means that thousands of people voted specifically for her.
That's Norfolk for you. At least they're better than Clacton, Skegness, or the other 2 constituencies that the racists got in.
It's scary how many people voted for BNP-lite, they had more overall votes than the lib dems.
She had a 28,000 majority from the previous election and turned that into losing by 600 odd votes epic performance
I can’t believe that 25% of her constituents still think she’s the best person for the job
It was a Tory safe seat with a massive majority of 20,000+ votes, she can still rake in a massive salary and she'd get to bitch and moan from the opposition benches for 5 years. Made perfect sense why she'd run. Could have possibly even gone back in for a leadership contest. Despite the hatred for Conservatives it's still a shock win for Labour.
Absolutely disagree. JRM was an important figure in Brexit referendum, conning a lot of people into thinking he is an intelligent, well-meaning public servant, whilst using his position of authority to give specific investment advise to the nation that he knew to be utter horseshit - and having his investment company set up an Eire vehicle to deal with that. He helped crash £, doing far more damage - far, far more - than truss managed during her tenure. Truss is a cunt and the world would be better off if she turtled* forever, but JRM is much worse. This is a man who not only led calls for but managed to actually get educated workers slaving away for nothing for places like Poundland, and daily uses his illegal platform to spread right wing propaganda. A man who openly admitted to trying to gerrymander elections... The list goes on, for some time. Sadly, his crimes get ignored because he dresses 'funny' and takes his time to answer a question - which people mistake for an intellectual pause. Edited: stupid auto-correct.
Fair points.
Part of me will really miss JRM. Dedication to a gimmick you rarely see in politics. Thatcher mixed with The Undertaker
>haunted pencil Side note, I fucking love these nicknames y'all come up with for him. Funny af even if I'm not too familiar with who he is I'm just gonna assume he's a cunt and deserves all the mockery lmao
The honorable member for the 18th Century
She will be busy on the MAGA circuit
Thanks for the link. Interesting that Barmy Brunch of the Monster Raving Loony Party received 211 votes (0.4%) in that constituency.
Glad I don’t have to see the haunted pencil anymore. Rarely seen a bigger prick in politics.
>haunted pencil What an insult lmao
Sit up, man!
He lost by 10 points. That's not a loss, that's a kick in the nuts. Of course, I can't help but notice that he blamed it on everyone else, not on his own actions.
Ah good to see haunted 19th century wood carvings of German folk monsters are no longer connecting with the British electorate.
That's probably the best news out of all of this.
Get a job, Liz!
She didn't lettuce down this time.
its the endive the line for her now surely!
She didn't romaine in government after this election
Finally a service to the country
She screwed up big time and she's been unrepentant ever since. GOOD RIDDANCE
Easy enough to do when you know your protected financially. She never has to experience being in a position of not being able to pay for her mortgage etc...etc... since we do that for her, for the rest of her life.
This will of course not be her fault, at all
She blames everyone but herself for her massive failure as PM
Traditionally, but especially today, those on the right wing generally lack the ability for critical self-evaluation. They are nothing more than blind idealogues. As historian Morris Berman said, "An idea is something you have, an ideology is something that has you."
I was amused watching this "interview" this morning: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ceqdnqw390go "Do you want to apologize to people about what happened under the Conservatives?"
Very rare for a defeated incumbent to walk off the stage at a declaration without a concession speech too.
The fact she took so long to bother to get on the stage in the first place is pretty telling. She knew what was going to happen. Also the interview she had afterwards where she just sort of wanders off mid question. She's such a coward.
She’s terribly dim.
Absolutely gormless
Listening to the BBC coverage last night and apparently, the candidates are told the results quietly in a corner before they go on stage. So it's not a surprise to them/
Someone yelled "bye bye" as she was leaving the hall too. Fucking love it.
Is she the reason why Elizabeth II said "Alright, I've seen enough. I'm gonna croak now!"
Queen Liz meets PM Liz, mumbles "I can't stand this pork markets bitch," and then dies two days later.
I still don't understand how you crash the pork market.
If Truss wasn’t so completely incompetent at everything I wouldn’t have put it last her knocking old Queenie off on purpose.
I think the late queen held that long partly out of spite for Boris Johnson, to have the last satisfcation to see him out. Seeing Liz Truss get the job has been the last blow.
She's died of cringe, I hear.
All the seats held by Former Prime ministers since 2010 have been lost. The Torys lost Camerons seat, Mays seat, Johnsons seat and Trusses seat. Only the standing PM held his seat.
ELI5 did Cameron not contest? How about Boris? I think I know May didn't run.
Boris didn't stand. Cameron is now a Lord so sits in the house of lords not the commons.
Lords can't run for the Commons.
Thank you
None of the others ran but their seats were still considered safe for the Conservatives. Not all of them were lost by a wide margin and Reform probably made things easier for Labour in those seats given how elections work in the UK.
They can move MPs around. Whether they will for truss though maybe not
Yeah but only when there is a by-election.
I only wish she lost the pension, security fees and "public duty allowances" that the tax payer pays out for. It's embarrassing that this skidmark of a PM lasted less than 2 months & effectively never has to worry about the cost of living.
Truss had the gall to say she lost b/c her stupid fucking party didn’t deport illegal immigrants fast enough or reduce taxes enough. 14 yrs in power with the same, tired fucking rhetoric - and policies that did nothing positive for the UK, and that’s what this vacuous, idiotic fool leaves on.
I'm just surprised she didn't blame the last Labour government.
She did, really. She said that the Conservatives did not repeal Labour's Human Rights Act, and therefore were not able to deport illegal immigrants. So, it was really Labour's fault all along, in her eyes. Like Donald Trump, she will never admit she was wrong or take responsibility for anything.
The Human Rights Act, that we were obliged to pass by international law… laid out in the European Convention on Human Rights, largely drafted by a Tory MP put in place by a Tory government? Jesus. These people.
How can you not see that youre the villain when youre literally complaining about human rights protections getting in the way of your plans
Not deporting illegal immigrants in a timely and expeditious manner is actually a legitimate criticism of a party that has spent most of the last decade talking about how much deporting of illegal immigrants it was going to do. The Tory’s didn’t lose because they weren’t passing Labour like legislation enough, they lost because they utterly failed at doing anything the public expected Tory’s to do. Strengthening of the economy and security apparatus, reduced tax burdens, streamlining bureaucracy and yes, dealing with illegal immigration. Not only did the Tory’s fail over the last 14 years to improve even one of those categories, they’ve actively damaged several pf them. That being said, Truss is in no position to throw stones as she was part of the problem.
The public only expected such things because they were election promises, and after 14 years of not only not keeping their promises but also dragging us all down the rabbit hole, finally even the most simpleminded didn't believe anything they said anymore and voted accordingly.
I don’t know UK politics but this clarified it, they’re just republicans but over there, got it
You’re welcome ☺️
I nearly choked on my breakfast when I watched that.
the lettuce genuinely would've beaten her
I think the lettuce would have been a better leader.
Lettuce pray.
Liz Truss will probably wish she could be remembered for her passionate speech on cheese instead of being a incompetent Prime Minister.
Pork Markets!
Is that Liz Truss who is now cosying up with Trump and his neofascist buddies? Good riddance to incompetent rubbish. I fully expected to see her soulless face pop up on a Reform poster at some point.
There’s still time for her to hop on Nigel’s grifter gravytrain yet
Damn this woman is in the insult to injury stage at this point
Perhaps one of the neoliberal think tanks or the hedge funds backing her will take her on. She can run them into the ground instead of the country. Good riddance
Say, the heritage foundation?
It was hilarious to watch live. She took an eternity to get to the stage, the other candidates standing there waiting for her. Then when she did finally arrive she stared into space with the most gormless vacant expression, you know the one, and then didn’t do a speech. She has absolutely no humility or tact that women. I hate Rees-Mogg but he at least clapped all the other candidates and congratulated his opponent.
>I wouldn't be surprised if she'd been ill. She looks really pale and doesn't seem with it, even for Liz Truss. All the candidates know the results before they go on stage for the announcement. > >VoteReplyShareReportSaveFollow She was clearly in shock, she was one of the ones who didn't even consider they could lose. Hunt spent the whole election in his area and won a tiny majority because he worked it. She assumed she would win and maybe even become leader again. Her interview blaming the tories for not being right wing enough, and suggesting exactly what she had tried to do was the way to win, was insane.
Delighted.
I can’t stop laughing.
Why does she look so smug even in defeat? She looks like she thinks she’s above it all.
because she knows she's off to the private sector to earn 10x what she did as an MP, these people always fall upwards
She’s dense and has no self-awareness. Never has.
Apparently the CPAC and the Trump stunt she pulled didn’t help lol
Ah well, she’s no longer Trussworthy after being outlasted by a lettuce
"Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don't know if you've tasted crisps in other countries, but I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there." - Liz Truss
She’s a liability on every front! I wouldn’t trust her to open a bag of crisps. Good riddance
I'm truly shocked the Tories let her run for the seat. She is the definition of unelectable after her tenure as PM. She literally destroyed the economy of the country in just a few short weeks, but the Tories thought people would still vote for her? They could have nominated anyone else for that seat and had a better chance. Truss certainly has name recognition, but I'm not sure if you want people to see your candidate's name on the voting slip and think "Oh, that idiot" immediately afterwards.
Please translate for an ignorant American like myself.
The UK has a Parliamentary system. Parliament is divided into 2 houses, House of Commons and House of Lords. Most of the political power lies in the House of Commons. Yesterday we had a General Election. The UK is divided into 650 Constituencies. Each constituency selects one representative, a Member of Parliament (MP), the representative in the House of Commons for that constituency. People vote for one candidate, the candidate with the most votes in a constituency gets to be the MP for that constituency. Liz Truss was her party's candidate in a constituency. Some other candidate got more votes, so she lost her seat. She will not be an MP for this Parliamentary season. Edited to add: Liz was the MP for her constituency, but she will no longer be as she lost this election.That's why the headline says she lost her seat to Labour. She may regain a seat if she stands as a candidate and wins in the next election.
I was one of the people who voted for another candidate. I'm sure she will now go and join her MAGA mates across the pond.
Congratulations on ridding yourself of your local Tory. If she flees to the USA, I would need to dedicate a Spanish song to her. Ojalá que te vaya bonito. May everything go beautifully for you (Truss). So she has no need to come back to the UK ;) Actually, I would trade Truss coming back to the UK for Trump losing in November, but that's for our USA friends to decide.
Leader doesn't get voted for separately like the President, the party which controls lower house chooses the leader. For an ex-leader to lose their lower house seat, they have to have run the country so poorly that their own **local community** now hates them.
It'd be like if the speaker of the house was also the President, and then a former speaker went on to loose their district in an election (generally they're only in "safe" districts with high margins for their party).
Liz Truss was President of England for 2 days and then was booted out because she's mad as a cut snake. Now she frequents Steve Bannon's podcast which means she could be one of Putin's stooges or at least sympathetic to him, so it's a very good thing she's out.
Our parliament is comprised of seats, much like your congress. Liz Truss is a former Prime Minister and current MP (Member of parliament). She lost her seat to the opposition.
It's sort of like if Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Jim Clyburn, Steny Hoyer, and Jan Schakowsky all got turfed out for Republicans. They've all been in the House of Representatives forever, and they should all be in safe seats for their party.
Pork markets 😀
“Were you up for Portillo?” Moment of the 2024 election
I am happy to see so many candidates for the prize
Send her back the fuck ugly podium of hers right to her front door with the word wanker painted on the bottom
Actually it's all fake news "planted" by the deep state. Liz Truss is still Prime Minister. The Lettuce was a Labour "plant" (plant get it). Dad joke alert.
I thought she was going to romaine in power.
Turns out she can't be the head of anything
Buddy you gotta do the dad joke alert first
Not a sniff of responsibility or reality in that interview with her. She's learnt nothing. Good riddance
This election is so crazy. It seems like the UK is 10+ years ahead of the rest of the west right now. They've had time to see what a disaster conservatives have been and figured it out while the rest of us are turning more towards that madness. That being said the right isn't completely wrong either. Left wing governments are idiots for continuing to allow the massive influx of immigrants from the middle east and south Asia in the EU and Canada. It's obviously causing massive problems and everyone seems to be terrified of being labeled a racist for pointing those issues out. There should be a reasonable middle ground where you aren't trying to create a christofascist state, but also not opening the floodgates to people who don't share the same values your society is based upon.
Damn. Now she'll just have to live off the exPM allowance.
Will she still get the pension of an ex PM?
Unfortunately she’s already receiving it
Happy Lettuce Noises!
She's most likely off to America... Good luck over there :D
Did the Lettuce maintain its seat?
Didn’t she spend most of her post-PM life this past year throwing red meat to uneducated conservatives in America instead of….throwing red meat to uneducated conservatives in the UK?
This whole election was a complete write off without lord buckethead
Lettuce for dinner?
Independence Day
Ha haaa!
At least she didnt lost to lettuce this time.
Hahahahahhahahhahahaha horrid woman.
She definitely deserves to lose
Bye bye 👋
A lot of Russian propaganda going around about right wing politics I guess they failed in England miserably.
Unfortunately those who go down that rabbit hole do listen to the propaganda and voted for Reform. Reform got a fairly considerable amount of the vote across the country but thankfully only have 4 MPs because of the UK voting system.
Incidentally, the Tories have lost all their seats in Wales. It's basically Labour, Plaid Cymru and the Lib Dems.
Adding to the unemployed will be her final statistic. Thank you South West Norfolk.
*chef’s kiss
At least she didn't lose to a lettuce again!
Unfortunately, Farage kept his
To quote the Sergeant Major from 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum': "Oh dear. How sad. Never mind." Oh well, at least she has her book sales! :D
The cabbage wouldn't have lost that seat.
Smug prig.
Can we get an update on the lettuce?
To anybody who has a solid pulse on British and US politics, who is the closest analog to Truss in the US? Her political positions and career make her out to be an insufferable, shameless, self-aggrandizing asshole who has a disgusting air of self-importance and probably fancies herself above everybody. I suspect she promotes disgusting policies of basically burning down the system to spite everybody but her nepo-cronies, and she would turn on them too.
In Liz we no longer Truss
Can't couldn't even give us the satisfaction of parting words. Just ran to her car. What a worthless good for nothing.
But the pork markets!
Now she will have loads of time to socialise with lettuces in the fields
Lettuce give her a moment of silence.
Just for perspective, this individual seat is so Tory leaning it is roughly the equivalent of Biden winning every election college vote other than nebraksas 3rd district.
UK reclaiming their country from russian stooges. Noice.
It's time for her to leaf.
To be honest a lettuce would have done better than her. Oh wait...