How did she become PM in the first place?
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Yeah living conditions on Earth would be so vile that we'd go to Mars and leave her behind.
Or send her to Mars, and leave her to figure out how to get herself back.
Yep. They'll be running that hard from her, indeed.
Why? To escape her and her policies?
Brexit 2, the UK leaves the Earth altogether to defeat the small boats once and for all
That is actually canonical in Dr Who. They call it Starship UK.
They have a robotic Suella Braverman that tries to shoot down the TARDIS. If a small boat is bigger on the inside, it still counts.
and they leave by lobotomizing a star whale and building the new UK on its back as it swims through the stars
She had sick spacial exploration program that was about to reveal to everyone but you made fun of her with that forsaken lettuce and now everyone of is lost it. Congratulations to everyone one of you, ungrateful bastards.
The PMs after David Cameron are only in it for the power to feed their own ego and not about governing, especially the Tory PMs. Kier Starmer was not a great Labour PM but he's less egotistical than his Tory counterparts. Andy Burnham appears to be more down to earth but only time will tell.
I'm pretty sure she is right. Where else would Brits be safe from her incompetence?
Is that the lady who used to "run through fields of wheat? (How naughty!)
That was Theresa May, two PMs before Liz... all in the space of a few years... Liz was the one who killed the queen, destroyed the economy in one day then buggered off having lasted in the role for less time than a lettuce
Bitch you couldn't outlast a cabbage.
sounds like she just volunteered to be sent to Mars
She can live there with Elon. $5 says they kill each other on the way there.
so THAAAATS what happened to the crew of the Hail Mary
If you read the book that's actually the reason why they put them in medical comas. They feared they'd get cabin fever and kill each other on the trip.
Fuckin A. That makes sense.
I initially planned on reading it but I had already started The Captives War and I wasn't about to stop.
...and there would have been a chicken in every pot...
2040 even sounds ridiculous.
IMHO most countries could still accomplish this. There's just no political will for it. Mars is worthless to most people before terraforming, and now we need to terraform Earth first. How can we expect to fix Mars if we can't stop ruining Earth?
There's that, but also, looking at the sort of people pushing hardest for establishing Martian colonies, they are all the sort of folks who would tell you how you can be advancing humanity on another planet, then deduct the cost of your oxygen consumption from your paycheck, if not just cutting off the air supply if you happen to get a little uppity about "muh human rights" when they want you to work 16 hours a day for some dumb idea they had.
If my granny had wheels, she'd be a shopping trolley
I understand why the rest of the world would want the brits on Mars, but why is Truss advocating for this herself?
Well she shouldn't have killed the queen, and then no one would have ousted her.
Stop it. Regicide is cool. Truss was never cool.
Yes, but what about the pork markets?
What's really frustrating about Liz Truss is she is too stupid to understand how stupid she is. If she could wrap her head around that, she might just shut up and we'd never have to hear from her again.
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In a way I'm bummed that I probably won't see any of the space sci-fi come true where everybody sounds British.
We've got universal translators now, so you can make Frenchmen sound British, for some reason.
Well, if the tories - and Truss particularly - had remained in power until then, I can imagine that a lot of people would be taking extreme measure to get away, so I can see her point.
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She's basically Donald trump with two x chromosomes.
She certainly has extra chromosomes.
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.
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