Jonathan SchofieldJun 22

UK Prime Ministerial tenures since Milk-Snatcher Thatcher, approximated as lettuces

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Rishi Sunak
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Liz Truss
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Tony Blair
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Show threadJonathan SchofieldJun 22

…I apologise for the lettuce shouting that the above post inflicts upon users of screen readers.

Here is a less shouty version with just the number of lettuces for each PM. 1 lettuce represents roughly 7 weeks of tenure.

Keir Starmer: 15
Rishi Sunak: 13
Liz Truss: 1
Boris Johnson: 23
Theresa May: 23
David Cameron: 46
Gordon Brown: 21
Tony Blair: 76
John Major: 48

9 Prime Ministers, 266 lettuces and almost 36 years later the UK is still on course for an Iceberg 🤪

https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116747658730469820

Show threadJonathan SchofieldJun 22

…The lesson that I would like us to take away from this is that instead of repeatedly eating rotten greens, we should elect some fresh Greens 💚

[out of limp metaphors, runs for cover]

Show threadJonathan SchofieldJun 22
…Returns to remind you of the fine googly-eyed lettuce-work from Led By Donkeys https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrlx5yxr60o
Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls

The former prime minister brings a speech to an abrupt end when the banner - which also reads "I crashed the economy" - appears.

BBC News
Show threadEFJun 22
@urlyman think Ms Truss has been unduly demonised as plenty of evidence to show it was already crashing, and a cynical person may suggest a lot of the rhetoric came from Mr Sunak's camp because he was not happy at loosing. Not saying she did right or was blameless because that's incorrect but trying to trigger growth, the economy and provide tax cuts for those most needing it was a very good thing. The current lot of GDP chasers, and the Tories before them, have done the polar opposite and generated nothing from it.
Show threadJonathan Schofield
@EF we’ll agree to differ. If I could I’d probably have someone like James Meadway reply
Jun 22 at 12:27pmIvory for iOS
Show threadNorth Shropshire LadJun 22
@urlyman @EF he should know that the day before the budget in question was published the Bank of England announced that they were about to start quantitative tightening…..
Show threadJonathan SchofieldJun 22

@happypete pretty sure James acknowledges the BoE fkery. But also that he would tear the Tufton Street crowd a new one while integrating climate strategising

@EF

Show threadEFJun 22

@urlyman not waving a Liz Truss flag by any means but a lot of what they announced was beneficial to me and a breath of fresh air (apart from the unfunded part although magically this government can fund £32B for a magic carbon capture folly).

The problem I have is more of the same is not good for the people of this country. Endless cuts and more direct and stealth taxing. Excuses to fund private companies. Chasing endless growth rather than focusing on the wellbeing of the populous and the betterment of the world, their raison d'être.