{"id":249478,"date":"2022-10-20T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=249478"},"modified":"2022-10-20T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:23:00","slug":"the-lettuce-won-liz-truss-gone-in-45-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/10\/20\/the-lettuce-won-liz-truss-gone-in-45-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lettuce Won. Liz Truss Gone In 45 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Lettuce Won. Liz Truss Gone In 45 Days\" alt=\"The Lettuce Won. Liz Truss Gone In 45 Days\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-10\/hp2hs1ig_lettuce-650_625x300_20_October_22.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The lettuce stunt was inspired by The Economist magazine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Liz Truss, just after 45 days in office, resigned as UK prime minister. In the process, she also lost out to a ball of lettuce.<\/p>\n<p>The lettuce has become a caricature of the 47-year-old Conservative leader&#8217;s waning hold on power. It was pitted against the Prime Minister by The Daily Star, a left-leaning UK tabloid, asking readers if they thought the under-fire prime minister would lose her job before the vegetable decayed.<\/p>\n<p>The tabloid set up a live feed and plopped up an unrefrigerated iceberg next to a photo of Ms Truss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Which wet lettuce will last longer?&#8221; it asked in a Twitter video post that&#8217;s been running since October 14, garnering hundreds of viewers and comments.<\/p>\n<p>The lettuce stunt was inspired by The Economist magazine, which in an October 11 column titled &#8220;The Iceberg Lady&#8221; described Ms Truss as having &#8220;the shelf-life of a lettuce&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the lettuce, which did not wilt in its six days in the spotlight, emerged the winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lettuce outlasted Liz Truss,&#8221; the video declared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Daily Star lettuce has come out victorious in the battle of the year &#8211; to see whether it could outlast Prime Minister Liz Truss in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LizVsLettuce?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LizVsLettuce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[THREAD] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sP7QDgqcfr\">pic.twitter.com\/sP7QDgqcfr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Star (@dailystar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dailystar\/status\/1583089825582059523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone flipped the photo of Ms Truss face-down on the table, colorful lights came on, and a recording of &#8220;God Save the King&#8221; played on repeat as thousands watched live.<\/p>\n<p>Being compared to a lettuce was one of many indicators that Ms Truss had a nightmare turn as Britain&#8217;s leader since the Conservative Party elevated her in September to replace Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Truss came to power promising an all-out push for growth, but her program proved unpalatable to financial markets as both the pound and gilts tanked amid concerns about how she&#8217;d pay for her economic plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/how-the-liz-truss-vs-lettuce-joke-played-out-3449553\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The lettuce stunt was inspired by The Economist magazine Liz Truss, just after 45 days in office, resigned as UK prime minister. In the process, she also lost out to a ball of lettuce. The lettuce has become a caricature of the 47-year-old Conservative leader&#8217;s waning hold on power. 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