Liz Truss storms off stage after Led By Donkeys lettuce prank
Liz Truss stormed off stage at an event to promote her book on after a banner featuring a lettuce was unfurled behind her as part of a stunt by a campaign group.
The former prime minister, who lasted just 49 days in office, was addressing an audience in Suffolk on Tuesday when the banner, emblazoned with the vegetable and carrying the words โI crashed the economyโ, was unveiled.
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36 comments
she better get used to it. Lett-uce hope this mockery follows her.
size of the burger muncher sat opposite!!!
This was brilliant. She claims it attacks free speech yet her reaction shows her true disdain for free speech by leaving the stage. Good riddance to utter rubbish.
If Liz is a `lettuce` then all who cannot see `conspiracy` are cabbages.
She was not the choice of `outside forces` but the choice of the membership – and, of course we cannot have that!
We shall never know the truth. She should have been cossetted and helped by wise heads around her, instead she was `thrown under the bus,` and the Tory membership`s `working democracy` was trashed by Tory Party Leaders.
Tories will not admit it but this one act of `democratic vandalism` of their own membership probably cost them the election.
Or liz ,time to giv it up lass.
A new kurdish barbers just opened near me. They need someone to sweep hair up . Cash in hand
It's VERY FUNNY
I wonder what I wanted what the applause was actually for… Liz, the lettuce or both?
A childish prank referring to a stale topic. Liz should have handled it better but i sympathise; particularly as the Labour government is gearing up to trash the economy in their own style. Its a shame you lost your seat Liz but hang on in there; your time will come.
I don't understand how she has the barefaced cheek to think we want to hear what she has to say. After she single handedly crashed the economy, causing misery for millions of hard working Britons, she should be imprisoned. Thank you whoever made that sign๐๐
Failure breeds Failure
Call it "Fatal Attraction"
She also flashed black ones ๐
Instantly donated to Led By Donkeys.
Brilliant!!๐๐๐๐
I had no idea she was moving towards the far right. Maybe watching trump trying to make a come back gives her hope and feels she can regain some dignity after failing so badly the way she did.
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Hopefully this will shut her up forever
Pertinent that she was talking utter shite as the lettuce descended.
The woman is a narcistic ignoramus, and you won't find a better example. It is a hilarious reflection in green of the thinking within the Tory party.
Beccles town hall Eh Liz? Bit of a reality check from your frantic USA Promotion of your 'book' where no one has heard of you. A small market town in Suffolk UK is probably your limit…and it WAS funny but not for the millions of people who faced economic hardship because of your misplaced belief in your version of economic success. Just go away to a small dark corner where you belong now please.
Lettuce look forward to Nerine Skinner's sketch on this incident ๐
in only 49 days the Truss woman wrecked the economy and killed the Queen. What a legacy. Now just go away for ever, you have no shame.
Why isn't this think tank owned, utterly vacant fantasist, in prison for criminal negligence?
I love the way it slowly descends in near silenceโฆ
She shouldn't have crashed the economy then. She deserves more heckling.
"How dare you speak the truth"!!"
im sorry…Im not a perv…but we almost got an upskirt moment…anyone got footage from a few seats to the left? (Id pay good money) ๐
The idiots clapping her.
well the black knickers were ok )))
Such grace under fire! ๐ฅฌ๐๐
she is such an imbecile.
And the lettuce leaf walks off
Who wants to buy a book written by her. She's completely delusional.
She supports Trump and was on stage with Steve Bannon and quite a few other decidedly extreme right wingers in the US. No thanks Truss. We donโt want your kind of politics ๐คฎ.
God it's so trivial. Fell a bit flat barley any laughter and Truss was clapped off. If this this was part of a campaign it missed the economic news of the last few days and looks dated and politically amateurish
See you Liz, you big incompetent lettuce ๐๐
Sounds like 3 people in the audience. How delusional is Truss? About the same as Trump, naturally. Pork markets anyone? ๐๐๐๐ฅฉ๐ท๐ท