The Crazy Years, UK edition - Adventures of the 52nd(?) State

[Mongrel]

To some extent the current situation in Britain can be summed up as "TORIES!" (which is pretty often, really), but the details really are funny.

[KingRoyal]

Truss is out

[nosimpleway]

The lettuce stands victorious

[Grath]

[Mongrel]

TBH honest, I'm pretty surprised that 45 days is the shortest tenure of any British PM in history.

[Thad]

TBH honest, I'm pretty surprised that 45 days is the shortest tenure of any British PM in history.

Well, the instantaneous transmission of news has only been a thing for a hundred years or so. Think how long it used to take for everyone to hear how badly the PM was fucking up, and then for his party to do something about it.

[Upthorn]

[Mongrel]

TBH honest, I'm pretty surprised that 45 days is the shortest tenure of any British PM in history.

Well, the instantaneous transmission of news has only been a thing for a hundred years or so. Think how long it used to take for everyone to hear how badly the PM was fucking up, and then for his party to do something about it.

It's more that I'm surprised there's nothing along the lines of, say, one of the Plantagenets having appointed and sacked three Prime Ministers in one day, or a horse having been Prime Minister for a week in 1724 due to some intractable parliamentary dispute over lamprey farming, or anything else appropriately absurd. I mean, it's Britain England.

[Thad]

AIUI there are a few examples like that -- a couple of PMs who were unable to form a government and resigned immediately, a caretaker who held the office while the just-appointed PM was out of the country -- but they don't count those on the grounds that they never officially took office as PM.

[KingRoyal]

Liz Truss's other accomplishment is that she's the only PM not to have an episode of Doctor Who air during her tenure since the show began

Truly scandalous

[Thad]

Missed it by three days.

[nosimpleway]

[Thad]

This is worse than that guy who declared that George HW Bush was Deep Throat a few months before Felt came forward.

[Mongrel]

Headline: Man Who Egged King Charles Has Been Banned From Publicly Carrying Eggs*

*except between his home and the grocery store.

“Eggs are funny, eggs have always been funny," the perpetrator told Jezebel in an interview. "Even just the word.”

[Mongrel]

Thread title actually becoming possible.

[Mongrel]

Nicola Sturgeon, who recently lost her re-election race for leadership of the Scottish Nationalist Party (and by extension her job as First Minister of Scotland), has come under investigation for campaign finance violations. This however is, uh, quite the new wrinkle.

As several commentators pointed out, the police in this case are not wearing PPE, so we can likely rule out the hilarious twist of someone looking for bodies or the like, but there's still a "murder tent" out front for whatever evidence they think they're looking for, and this is all still wonderfully bizarre.

[Thad]

Nicola Sturgeon, who recently lost her re-election race for leadership of the Scottish Nationalist Party (and by extension her job as First Minister of Scotland)

She didn't lose re-election, she resigned.

And it's Scottish National Party.

[Mongrel]

An earlier version of this post etc. etc. we regret the error.

[Mongrel]

Diplomatic shitpoasting is a truly rarefied art, and you get double points if you do it to the British.

[Thad]

Oh shit, when did the US Embassy hire Gail Simone?