#prime minister

[nicostiel]

#so true bestie

[kropotkindersurprise]

October 20, 2022 - Good news everyone! The lettuce won!

[mapsontheweb]

Countries where you can eat your own Prime Minister

by indiatour__

[bi-the-way-drbloom]

The prime minister of Sri Lanka just announced his resignation

It's a bad time to be the PM of an island nation

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was spending the evening with a group and someone stole all my stuff, so I went to see who had security cameras pointing outside to find out who the thief was. The next day, the prime minister of Spain appeared and said he was sure who it had been and took a bunch of people and the offender to a church to make him confess by brute force.

[rwrbmovie]

[stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese]

2022 spoilers without context

[laniidae-passerine]

[luvmoonie]

when sunak openly admits that he does not see what israel is doing as a genocide you know that this country is completely corrupt

[vox-anglosphere]

What if Britain's wartime hero had not stood up to her enemies..

[petermorwood]

Prime Minister WHO?

There are many reasons why I seldom post about politics, and I've just found another...

*****

I was glancing at the news just now and muttered something to @dduane about the sequence of musical-chairs PMs who've passed through 10 Downing Street in recent years.

"Why doesn't Parliament let Larry take over," I said, chucking firewood into the stove. "More self-interest and cosying up to chums, typical cat, but I bet he'd make a better job of it than Bojo or Lettuce Woman or..."

And that's when I had a memory blip and Picked The Wrong Name.

"...Rishda Tarkaan."

Oops.

Of course once the words were out I remembered the right ones (Rishi Sunak) but by then DD had given me one of the most classic "Say What?" looks I've seen in a very long time.

:-P

[reasonandempathy]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My biology teacher sent me an email that was just screenshots of my texts to my friends, with the caption: “The Prime Minister got arrested in Indonesia yesterday. He had to hand over his phone.”

[animanightmate]

So, just to summarise

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her Chancellor, replacing him with a man dragged back from political obscurity where he’d languished since his success in uniting the entirety of the NHS in their hatred of him. A man who is his own rhyming slang...

Then her Home Secretary fired off a series of increasingly bizarre and hateful tweets and other public statements, complaining about the police encouraging people to report transphobic hate crimes and [checks notes] how the “tofu-eating, Guardian-reading wokerati” are ruining the UK.

She then did something that broke security protocols and quit with the saltiest resignation letter I’ve seen in a while.

In the meantime, the Health Secretary talked about how she wanted to make antibiotics available over the counter and how she’s often shared “spare” antibiotics with friends. (Incidentally, this is a great way to encourage medically resistant bacteria – diabolical notion.)

Then the Chief Whip resigned. Then unresigned. Apparently. It’s all becoming a bit of a blur.

Then Liz Truss had a big shout in Parliament about how she’s not a quitter.

Then she quit less than 24 hours later.

This is all in the last week, by the way. It’s like a bloody soap opera.

In the meantime, among the potential runners for leader of the Conservative Party we get to include Boris Bloody Johnson who, let’s not forget, lost the confidence of his ministers and party, and still has criminal investigations pending for having partied, presumably using our tax money, while the rest of us stayed away from loved ones to keep them safe.

But it’s okay, because we Got Brexit Done. And Liz Truss, after 44 days in office, gets a £115,000 pension every year FOR LIFE for having been Prime Minister. All this while nurses can’t afford to heat their homes and have to rely on foodbanks to feed their families. Rank obscenity.

To summarise a bit further:

We are SO SCREWED. And a literal lettuce in a wig lasted longer than Liz Truss.

[rwrbmovie]

BTS of #RWRBMovie: Sharon D. Clarke

ML via What to Watch:

"And then Sharon, I honestly was just like — when I knew I get to cast a fictional UK prime minister, I was like ‘well, let’s go for the most hopeful version of what we’d love to see in a prime minister’, and when they asked me to think about it, I was like ‘oh! Sharon D Clarke — ask her if she’d come in and do a day for us’. It’s the same thing with Sharon as with Uma, the first thing I said for each of the President and the Prime Minister was ‘would you vote for that actor to actually do that job?’ I can’t vote in the UK, but if I could, I would vote for Sharon!”