Liz Truss defeated by the supermarket vegetable

The fall of Liz Truss was such an anticipated outcome in the UK that one of the most talked about jokes in recent days has been a mad race to determine who had more “shelf life”, a supermarket lettuce or the first minister. lettuce won.

the tabloid Daily Star took the joke to the point where it had been a week broadcasting live 24 hours a day a video in which an iceberg lettuce appeared, dressed in a wig and glasses, next to a portrait of the conservative leader, who finally announced her resignation on Thursday.

“Truss has lost the competition,” the tabloid proudly declared today, which has managed to viralize the image of the vegetable as a metaphor for the brevity of the mandate of conservative politics, which goes down in history as the prime minister who has resisted the least time in Downing Street.

Since Queen Elizabeth II appointed her as head of government on September 6, two days before her death, only 45 days have passed.

Much of that period, Truss has spent it trying to repair the economic damage which caused his aggressive tax cut, which plunged the value of the pound sterling, shot up the cost of British debt and forced the Bank of England to intervene in an emergency to prevent the bankruptcy of several pension funds.

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The lettuce joke was actually born in the pages of the respected weekly The Economist. Earlier last week, his editorial underlined that discounting the period of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, which paralyzed British politics, Truss was only “in control” of the country for seven days, before the economic storm swept through all your plans.

“That’s about the shelf life of a lettuce”joked the publication in an article in which he baptized the still conservative leader as ‘The Iceberg Lady’, as opposed to ‘The Iron Lady’ that Truss aspired to be at the head of the Government.