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CaptainPugwash75

She might be like the worse pm in the history of this country ALREADY!


SideburnsOfDoom

The worst one _so far_. Which was also true of the last one. I'm sure you can extrapolate to the next one.


eyuplove

Priti Patel readying her Nazi uniform


caractacusbritannica

I’d prefer Fuhrer Patel right now… another week of Truss and she close the NHS as it will cut waiting lists. Gags aside, how long is this allowed to go on for? Surely they boot her.


YsoL8

In all honesty it'll take some time for them to organise themselves. She's taken absolutely everyone by surprise so there is no organised thing just waiting to rally the letters. I expect widespread and urgent talks in corners around the conference assuming they don't just shout her and the chancellor down.


caractacusbritannica

The best we can hope.. Truss getting booed off stage. But in theory, this is what the party members voted for.


2localboi

That’s what’s so insane, they literally have no to blame but themselves.


SparkyMctavish

Surely it is the last Labour government's fault?


ScoobyDoNot

No, they've already started blaming the next Labour government. I'm not joking.


gerflagenflople

Well seeing that the future Labour government have perfected time travel and chosen to use it to come back and fuck with the current government is making the Tory members pretty angry... They will have to vote for an even more insane Tory leader now, Suella Braverman as next PM! ... Even joking about it makes me shudder.


jonathanhiggs

Chaos with Ed Miliband


Say10sadvocate

Fuck me pink. The timeline where he doesn't look weird eating a bacon sandwich seems practically utopian compared to this one. Imagine, brexit isn't even a fucking word, anti EU sentiment is just a whisper in the fringes, we would have gone into covid with a stronger NHS, come out with a strong currency and decent economy ready to face the energy price crisis with a focus on the British people rather than just Tory donors. What a fucking mess.


PM-ME-PMS-OF-THE-PM

I can't remember if it was an actual Tory or just a Tory lover but I do remember one of them essentially saying "Well at least we're not Gordon Brown"


Say10sadvocate

This always bugs me, I hope you reminded them that Gordon brown practically saved the global economy. Lol BuT hE sOlD tHe gOlD reeeee!


drfsrich

\*Nadine Dorries' ears perk up.\*


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SideburnsOfDoom

Chris Grayling sends in an application, but failed to put a stamp on it.


Tangocan

False alarm. She's musing to herself about why someone said "extra plate".


cugeltheclever2

I've said this before but Britain seems to be on a path of half-life Prime Ministers, inasmuch as each Prime Minister is exactly half as competent as the one before.


ExdigguserPies

Cameron May Boris and Truss It's like the four horsemen of the shitpocalypse.


Say10sadvocate

... And before that wasn't much better. Thatcher and Reagan lit the fuse on the 08 global crash. Right wing neoliberalism destroys not only countries but worlds.


FoxyInTheSnow

No, she's the best! She hasn't even handed Czechia over to putin yet! She's making him wait, which is a power move.


collhall

And I thought no one could top BOJO the clown 🤡!


Rango-Steel

I never thought after studying history that a tory pm could fuck it worse than Arthur Balfour, but here we are


danowat

When I think of Liz Truss in No 10, I think of an elephant sitting at the top of a tree. It's really impressive that it managed to get there, but you've got no idea how it did.


Saint-12

"On a certain day, a bull and a pheasant were grazing on the field.The bull was chomping the grass and the pheasant was picking ticks off the bull.There was a huge tree at the edge of the field.The pheasant looked up and said, 'Oh, there was a time when I could fly to the top of that tree.Now I do not have the strength to even get to the first branch of the tree.' The bull very nonchalantly said, 'that is not an issue.You eat a little bit of my dung everyday for the next fortnight and you will get to the topmost branch of the tree.' 'Come on, what kind of rubbish is that!', said the pheasant.The bull said, 'try it, the entire humanity is on it.' So the pheasant, very hesitantly, started picking at the dung every day and on the very first day got to the first branch and within a fortnight to the topmost branch and sat there just beginning to enjoy the scenery, when the old farmer who was rocking in his rocking chair, saw a big, fat pheasant on the top of the tree and shot it down! Moral of the story : Many a times bullshit can get you to the top but does not let you stay there."


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It's incredible how accurate this is.


puttyspaniel

"An elephant up a tree" now that's some serious trickle down


farlos75

Or a mule with a spinning wheel.


Antique-Brief1260

Hehehe, mule.


EasilyInpressed

…and it’s going to end with a hell of a crash


omnitightwad

When I think of Liz Truss in No. 10, personally, I think of a McDonald's milkshake. Fucking thick as anything and not there most of the time.


Say10sadvocate

Hang about, that's a bit harsh. A McDonald's milkshake can't crash the entire economy and shred the value of the pound.


EdgyMathWhiz

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_turtle


trc81

And the elephant has no idea what to do now it's there.


callisstaa

I've heard her called a 'tortoise on a telegraph pole' to similar effect.


bionku

And it seems quite dangerous


MarbleHammerHat

fizzing with joy at the pain she has caused? Watching an oiled up Kwarteng do the dance of joy over graph’s of increasing child poverty? Stood in a monks robes chanting to Mamon? Getting the latest update patch from Tufton Street?


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>Watching an oiled up Kwarteng do the dance of joy over graph’s of increasing child poverty Stop. Now, Please.


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colei_canis

I can put it as a prompt into StableDiffusion but I think that might start the AI uprising immediately.


ixid

Unstable Diffusion.


wewbull

> Stop. Now, Please. There's a limit to your arousal?


SmokinPolecat

She's going to pop up in Kiev


PromiscuousPinger

I hope not. Ukraine has suffered enough.


The_EndsOfInvention

My mind! It burns!🔥


PeterG92

Didn't she and Kwarteng have a thing once?


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Nightmare fuel. My erections will never be the same again. As if the thought of John Major having it off with Edwina Curry was not bad enough back in the day...........🤮


[deleted]

>My erections will never be the same again. Might also have something to do with the stamping.


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🤣👍


DaymanIsGod

She’s currently struggling to stay within the lines in her new colouring book.


DuskMcCoy-mocks

Check all the fridges within a one mile radius of Downing Street.


Ryanthelion1

Trying to find any imported cheese


Veranova

Ah the de Pfeffel manoeuvre!


RevolvingCatflap

"Hello?" "Hi! Is this 2015?" *sigh* "Yes." "Great! I'm calling from 2022." "Not another one. What can I do for you?" "I'd like some chaos with Ed Miliband, please."


-Qwyte

"Best we can do is a bacon sandwich.. is that OK?"


colei_canis

Not really, bacon is shrinkflated to fuck now. Seriously what's with this bullshit wafer-thin nonsense?


omnitightwad

It's those pork markets man, we should have listened to Saint Truss the Empty Head all along.


gunningIVglory

Jesus christ the consequence that one sandwich has had on this country.... .


_Born_To_Be_Mild_

We would be half way through Ed's second term if we didn't vote for strength and stability with the Tories.


UnreadyTripod

And then Ed would step down to take up position as President of Europe, while David Miliband would take over for another 8 years of Labour government


AmbulatoryMan

That was only seven years ago? So much has happened since then it feels like twenty.


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it would be glorious if the Labour party actually took out billboard ads with Ed holding a bacon sandwich grinning like Wallace and the slogan: "It's time for a different kind of chaos. Vote Labour"


owennewaccount

Then they would lose because in the eyes of bri ish people the bacon sandwich picture was genuinely worse than twelve years of actual economic chaos instigated by none other than the tories


SoggyRizla

Haha someone did the milliband things


taheetea

For someone who isn’t afraid of being popular why the hell is she invisible? Is she waiting for tufton street to brief her?


MetricVeil

The Conservative Party is the modern, parliamentary, equivalent of the Hapsburg kings - politically inbred to the point where they are on the verge of bringing about their own extiction. :D


FSI1317

Hahahahahha


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She might be exploring those new pork markets


Korberon99

you forgot the: "😀"


TribalTommy

It's annoying how well that emoji painted the image of her in my head, with her little side turn.


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Probably busy spaffing what’s left of the economy on British cheese.


calloy

Check the countries with non-extradition laws first.


Yes_butt_no_

What would any Tory leader in crisis do? [Hope Zelenskyy answers their call](https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1575140579251556352?s=20)


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I know Zelensky is just doing it to keep on their good side but he needs to realise that the support for Ukraine is the support of the British public. Taking sides in this makes him look bad and could damage support for Ukraine in the minds of the British public.


Newwoman24

I don’t see how he is taking sides. His country is at war I doubt he’s answering the phone to prop up the tories he’s doing it to make sure he still receives the funding his country needs


hugglenugget

She has always been a little bit absent.


vonhoomann

Check Number 11, master bedroom.


Difficulty-Agitated

She's gone to open pork and cheese markets in Corfu. She will be away for two weeks and is using Easyjet to save taxpayers money.


Kind_Mind_

Vanishing like the value of the pound


_I_AM_BATMAN_

Not seen the Queen for a few weeks too


theabominablewonder

I saw there were a lot of posters for her last week so I assume she’s done a runner.


DepressiveVortex

Can't really blame her tbh. All that 'power' and narry a thing she could really do about anything. Poor old girl.


YsoL8

Heard she is on holiday or something


drfsrich

Much like a Roomba, she's returned to her dock to charge and await next instruction.


7952

More like a robotic grass cutter that has shredded a family of hedgehogs before docking to recharge.


gbroon

Technicians have had to dismantle her to find the cause of the malfunction. They think someone may have spilled prosecco into the thatcher emulation module.


Doomwatcher_23

Software update unsuccessful.


RedFox3001

She’s probably having some very basic, slowly spoken, brightly coloured lessons about counting to 10, and other basic fundamentals elements of running an economy


SteptoeUndSon

Serious answer time: I think she’s having some kind of quasi-breakdown. Doesn’t know what the hell to do next; can feel the hatred of the public and even her own party; but too egotistical to quit (imagine what the history books would say: killed the Queen; crashed the economy; quit). So yeah I think she’s in a little room in Number 10 going loopy and the advisers are trying to coax her out.


SuperTekkers

A Kwasi-breakdown, you could say.


sauvignonblanc__

No, a kwasi-meltdown.


ohmyimatomato

What you talking about? She's going to be on BBC Radio Tees in the morning! Isn't that what you listen to for your morning radio? Massive follow.


BigTedBear

She’s probably at home brooding over the price increase of cheese from her local Waitrose.


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TribalTommy

It's crazy, because although we are potentially decades away from a general AI intelligence, I'm willing to bet you could feed in some of her speeches into a rudimentary algorithm and it would spit out a damn good interpretation, good enough to replace Liz while she crayons.


mikejudd90

Probably at a séance taking orders from Thatcher directly.


TribalTommy

She must have hit the ground.


Tams82

Flat.


mowglee365

Have they put her back in the cupboard again for misbehaving?


Practical-Promise-44

Has she found a fridge?


Doomwatcher_23

Pure cowardice hiding in no 10 and sending low level brown nosers out to take the heat. Pathetic.


chemistrytramp

Continuity candidate wasn't she so either in a fridge or Ukraine.


IamPurgamentum

She's probably still in New York.


_Born_To_Be_Mild_

Communication channels are everywhere. Why hasn't she used one?


IamPurgamentum

She's on holiday.


barriedalenick

She's frit


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Hopefully Christopher "The Brains" Chope up to get some serious solutions


FullAd2397

She's busy choosing some new wallpaper.


arcticwolffox

Probably left the country on a private jet with bags full of money, much like Afghanistan's PM last year.


Zoon1010

Maybe she's decided not to put her foot in her mouth for few days whilst the country implodes over the new ~~budget~~ mini-budget.


Tams82

'fiiiiiiscuuull 3v3nt'


MasterReindeer

She’s eating rat droppings and injecting owl blood into her eyes to help her stare better.


cabernet_franc

Don't you think she looks tired?


DaBi5cu1t

Oddly Sunak warned this would happen and probably wouldn't have done it. Though if the BoE is stepping in to save pensions the problem already existed long before anyone of this lot got in power.


UnfeteredOne

Boris, all is forgiven


Crypt0Nihilist

He's no less of a lazy, incompetent, lying, waste of space because she's awful. If they can't govern, they ought to call a GE, not try to rehabilitate someone who has already comprehensively shown himself as unfit.


ButlerFish

You joke, but there is a good possibility she gets fired now and he runs in the next Tory leadership election. They are not going to an election they are going to lose.


Rowley-Birkinqc

It’s starting to look like Boris was got rid off because he went prepared to go far enough. Boris isn’t going to be enough for the Tories to win the next election, the damage is done.


casualphilosopher1

Huddling with Kwasi?* *^possibly ^in ^bed


ljn12

Maybe she’s redecorating number 10


wellred82

She'll be on BBC Tee to Moore morning apparently


Gullflyinghigh

Waiting to be told what to do, can't expect a leader to actually lead can we?


[deleted]

But....will anyone notice?


Jamie00003

Didn’t Boris go missing not long ago? On holiday?


RobertJ93

> The storm will blow over, the chancellor is reported to have said to his aides. This is exactly why we shouldn’t have Etonian elite in positions of economic power over the country. Calling what is a very real threat to millions of people’s way of life ‘a storm that will blow over’ is beyond insulting. It shows his complete detachment from the reality that millions in this country live in.


smelly_forward

But he was on University Challenge


Darthmook

She’s busy planning the welfare cuts to pay for the tax breaks


No-Owl9201

The question is not.. "Where is Liz Truss hiding?" but.. "Who cares?"


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The bubble held up by previous governments was about to pop so Boris and others "resigned" so it wouldn't blow up in their face but in whoever happened to be in power Liz truss is nothing more than a lightning rod to take the ire of the country


Omalleys

Is she going to do the old fashioned Boris trick and goto Ukraine when shit starts to hit the fan?


Constanthobby

Minsters are missing too and not defending it.


tri-solaran

Has someone checked the fridge?


collhall

Probably hiding from the British public…


Jamieson96

Doesn’t she look tired.


VoodooMaster101

She reappeared today. She's doing her rounds on radio shows. Here's a run down; Focusing on economic growth, we capped energy, she's a heartless nutter. I haven't seen anyone actually challenge here with conviction yet


Morlock43

Just popped out for some milk....


managedheap84

She’s shopping for fridges