NEW YORK (Dagbladet): Truss resigned as British Prime Minister Thursday after just six stormy weeks.
Political failure is ridiculed in the Kremlin.
– Britain has never seen a prime minister perform this way. She will be remembered for her catastrophic illiteracy, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Telegram, according to Moscow times.
The chaos that brought it down: – The worship of the day of judgment
Lost for salad
– Mother Liz Truss. Congratulations on the salad, writes former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Twitter.
The salad is a reference to a live stream from the British tabloid Daily Star. There, the British were recently able to test whether a salad would survive longer than Truss did as prime minister. Now it is clear that the salad has won.
Warns of “historical disaster”
Political chaos in Britain has received widespread attention in Russia. A guest on the popular political debate program “Time will tell,” says Reutersthat Truss possessed three qualities necessary to thrive in British politics: “Stupidity, arrogance and belligerence”.
Truss has been a target of the Putin regime since February.
Visited Moscow
At the time, he visited Moscow as foreign minister in an attempt by Western politicians to prevent the Russian attack on Ukraine. During a meeting with experienced Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, Truss is said to have confused two regions of Russia with Ukraine.
Lavrov described the meeting with Truss as conversations “between a deaf and a mute,” according to the Moscow Times.
The relationship between the Putin regime and Britain is the worst in a long time.
Now the war is psychological
Truss also took a hard line against Russia during her short time as prime minister.
– I came to work at a time of great economic and international instability. I acknowledge, given the situation, that I cannot keep the term for which I was elected by the Conservative Party, ”Truss said in a brief statement outside Downing Street on Thursday.
Truss took over from Boris Johnson at a terribly difficult time for Britain. The economy was going into recession, British households were facing a terrifying rise in their electricity and gas bills and what has been described as the worst living conditions crisis in 40 years.
Russia makes millions from stolen grain
Looking for a new manager
Truss quickly presented a plan for major tax cuts. This was very badly received by both experts and reviewers.
The British pound plummeted in value and Truss was forced to reverse the entire plan.
After weeks of severe political turbulence, the Conservatives are doing it very ugly in opinion polls, NTB writes.
But in the House of Commons the party has a solid majority. The new party leader will thus also become the new prime minister.
Usually, the selection of leaders is a long process. Now, however, the plan calls for party members to nominate a new leader in a vote as early as next week.
