She has only been in office for a month and the British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, is targeted by the British tabloids for ridicule. The last straw has been streaming via YouTube that the irreverent Daily Star has been launched since last Friday, where you can see a lettuce with a wig, a clock and a photo of the Premiere British, and they wonder who will last longer, Truss in office or lettuce?
The British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, replaced her predecessor, ridiculed dozens of times, in her position Boris Johnsonand far from regaining respect for his position, he is making it worse.
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His fiscal proposals to cut taxes on the wealthy led to an immediate collapse in the value of the pound sterling and intervention by the Bank of England. To calm the earthquake Premiere withdrew his proposals and dismissed last Friday, October 14, his Minister of Finance, Quasi Quarteng.
But the damage has already been done and in addition to reaping political enemies even within the ranks of his party, he has managed to be the fodder for one of the funniest jokes against a British politician in recent times.
The same Friday, under the title “Will the Daily Star’s 60p Tesco lettuce or Prime Minister’s Liz Truss last longer? Watch live stream“, the British tabloid announced on its website the retransmission in streaming through YouTube of a fun challenge in the form of a bet, one of the favorite entertainments of the English.
In a nondescript fixed shot, you can see a frame with a photo of the prime minister with a typical smile of a British comedy actress, and next to her a lettuce type icebergwith two stickers that simulate eyes and a blonde wig very similar to Truss’s haircut.
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The idea of the tabloid arose after the newspaper The Economist published an article entitled “The Iceberg Lady” where they said that the prime minister had “the same shelf life as a lettuce”. Said and done, in the Daily Star they decided to check it out live, in what could be called “investigative journalism”, but with vegetables.
Lockdown of wigged lettuce
The YouTube video already has more than 14,000 likes and maintains a constant number of live views from more than 400 users, with peaks of up to 1,000, despite the linearity of the shot, which does not mean that it is boring.
Youtube Video
To encourage the broadcast, those responsible for the publication have been incorporating elements throughout the weekend, such as a digital clock that shows the British time in real time, and a pretty smiling mouth and two little hands around little lettucein addition to a soft drink and a carton of milk with clearly visible brands, which means that the joke is already getting a good commercial return.
In addition, in the description of the video they have included a link that leads directly to the Instagram application, where all users can take a funny photo with a lettuce face and an open mouth.
The ridicule, bets and derision at a social and media level to which the Premiere British has reached the zenith with this kind of countdown, in which you can see live the deterioration of a lettuce, in a race for the survival of the vegetable before politics leaves office, as it seems to be the wish of the majority of the English population.