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Liz Truss claims Brits would be on Mars by 2040 if she hadn’t been ousted (www.politico.eu)

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[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Liz Truss, I don't think I can stress, is a strange woman.

Despite getting the top job at the Conservative Party, her father was a left wing Academic, but she basically railed against everything she even considered "left". Pretty much everything that came out of her mouth as a politician has been pretty fucking insane from her front bench career to her running to be the Leader of the Tories.

The reason she remained as long as she did as Prime Minister was because the Queen died. Literally the last thing the Queen did of note was appoint her as Prime Minister at Balmoral (it's believed she knew she was dying and wanted to die at Balmoral because it was her favourite home). Because all politics stopped when the Queen died, she didn't need to do much of note, but the moment the mourning period was over, she took a fucking sledgehammer to the economy.

After this, before and after resigning she has...

Called the Bank of England "Leftists" (which is fucking hilarious) for reacting badly to her mini budget.
Blamed Transgender people for a KitKat Heist in Italy (No really).
Released a book called "Ten Years to Save the West" in which she claimed everyone was out to get her.
Basically became the Heritage Foundation's voice in Britain.

She's basically a mix of Donald Trump, Javier Milei and the parts of Thatcher that didn't make it to the papers.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The kitkat thing was parody. She is very transphobic though