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Truss' government imploded and she announced her resignation after a mere 48 days in office, which is the NEW all time record for "shortest term as PM of the UK" by a considerable margin.

(George Canning, Prime Minister c. 1827, had the previous dubious honor of "shortest term ever" -- he served 119 days on the job before dying of tuberculous. It seems unlikely Truss will hang around anywhere NEAR that length of time, even if the UK Conservative Party drags its feet in choosing a replacement. By all accounts, they're planning a speedy leadership race this time around)

At least she beat William Henry Harrison, as he dropped dead after only being President for 30 days, but that's U.S. politics so its not the same thing. If we're going by UK standards, she did last longer as PM than "Lady Jane Gray" did as Queen, as Lady Jane had the title for a week before she was beheaded.

Supposedly Bumblin' Boris was the "frontrunner" to get his old job back, but apparently BoJo announced he's not running.

I won't hold my breath expecting the UK Conservative Party to pick someone who is an ACTUAL conservative...

The whole thing (PM carousel) is an indictment of the parliamentary system, Tory MPs are a bunch of panicky backstabbers, only concerned with saving their own jobs. They deserve to lose but the UK does not deserve woke socialist Keir Starmer (Trudeau 2.0).

Other than supposedly caving on a visa issue Truss actually seemed cool at first, didn’t let Charles speak about climate change, supply side mini-budget with tax cuts. Then the pound dropped and the markets panicked (I guess they adore taxes) and her MPs panicked and she reserved the tax cuts, fired her Chancellor and appointed EU-loving Jeremy Hunt. And that caused her to reach Jeff Flake approval ratings.

Tory voters wanted Johnson back, but there was no way because he knew the MPs would backstab him again. It’s hilarious to me he was ousted over violating his COVID lockdown rather than for imposing it in the first place.

I knew Sunak was smarter than Truss but I supported her because of his record on taxes. Man....she’s no leader, I don’t want to say it’s an indictment of women’s leadership but.......Maggie was one of a kind. Sunak has only done one cool thing, reappoint conservative Sue Braverman as Home Secretary, after she quit over some leaked documents.

Now there’s a looming crisis with Africans boating across the channel.