Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
LETTUCE LIZ:
Famously outlasted by a head of lettuce during her disastrous 49-day spell as Prime Minister, international laughing stock Liz Truss is no Little Gem.
Having clearly learned nothing from her mercifully brief stay in No10, the deluded Tory is now branding as stupid the millions of people paying the price for her trashing of the economy.
And at the same time portraying herself as the wrongly smeared, misunderstood victim of a huge plot by a mysterious deep state.
It’s usually victors who get to write history but Truss’s new all-nonsense book, Ten Years to Save the West, and its promotional blitz is the work of a deranged loser still peddling failed right-wing politics and economics.
Unable to see the truth through ideological blinkers, it is 320 pages of cringing self-pity and justification from a figure who will be no more than a humiliating footnote in history.
Loopy Liz is in la-la-land on another head-spinning planet where she is right and everybody else is too dull, dim and dumb to appreciate a rare genius.
Homeowners paying shedloads in higher mortgages know and feel the truth after interest rates rocketed thanks to that £45billion kamikaze mini-budget in 2022. The immediate sugar rush of unfunded tax cuts mainly for the rich providing her “happiest moment” of a seven-week premiership before grim reality sent her packing.
But no, Truss insists, it was not her fault and fools believing it was – that’s you, me and much of the nation – are wrong or poisonous.
She bleated in an interview: “The people who claim I crashed the economy are not telling the truth. They’re either very stupid or very malevolent. Because it’s clearly not true so they should be ashamed of themselves.”
An apology would have been nice, a mea culpa in order. But savaging those picking up her bills only adds insult to injury. Had Truss an ounce of shame, she would say sorry for the misery she inflicted then retire quietly to grow lettuces. She could get a few tips from the Daily Star which backed a 62p vegetable to last longer than her in No10.
This very former PM is the ultimate political dud, an unloved child of “infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me” Frankie Howard and “I’ll scream and scream and
scream” Violet Elizabeth Bott. Humour long ago bypassed a Tory blaming a “London elite” for defeat to the lettuce.
Adding horticultural mockers to a list of detractors supposedly responsible for her downfall is the tip of the Iceberg.
Included are the Treasury, Office for Budget Responsibility, Bank of England, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, Andrew Bailey’s eyebrows, speculators, economic establishment and other Tories such as arch plotter Michael Gove, plus the deep state. Truss was out of No10 before new furniture arrived for a flat infested with bloodsucking insects – predecessor Boris Johnson’s dog, Dilyn, the chief suspect.
“The entire place had to be sprayed with flea killer,” we learn. “I spent several weeks itching.”
The “saving grace” in Downing Street was Larry the cat. “He’s a lovely character and seems to take a liking and disliking to all the right