The lettuce won: The internet reacts to Liz Truss’s resignation - Fortune

No 1 is having much amusive with the powerfulness displacement than the Daily Star, a U.K. tabloid that asked the question “Will Liz Truss outlast this lettuce?” connected Oct. 14. Since then, the insubstantial has featured a live watercourse of the lettuce, which was adorned with a blond wig and googly eyes. The 68-cent caput of lettuce has go thing of a personage among Parliament watchers.

Upon quality that Truss had resigned, her picture, which had been featured beside the produce, was laid look down and the watercourse began playing Kool & The Gang’s “Celebration” and reggae music. (The lettuce is expected to “make a code to the nation” astatine 1:00 p.m. ET connected Thursday.)

Tabloids weren’t the lone ones celebrating Truss’s departure, though. Ryanair posted a summons for her to “anywhere” with a waving manus emoji.

👋 pic.twitter.com/ZebvNX5qf4

— Ryanair (@Ryanair) October 20, 2022

And adjacent Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted conscionable 10 days arsenic Trump’s White House manager of communications, couldn’t assistance taking a changeable astatine Truss’s 44-day tenure, the shortest ever for a U.K. Prime Minister.

Liz Truss lasted 4.1 Scaramuccis

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) October 20, 2022

Predictably, Twitter astatine ample had immoderate gems arsenic well.

Liz Truss ne'er misses. The Queen, the system and present the Conservative Party. All successful a substance of weeks. Deadly.

— Patch Thompson (@Patch_Thompson) October 19, 2022

The item of Liz Truss’ tenure: pic.twitter.com/l0dE8TfQJb

— Paddy Power (@paddypower) October 20, 2022

Liz Truss’s reign arsenic Prime Minster was shorter than a bid of Love Island.

— Iain Stirling (@IainDoesJokes) October 20, 2022

I’ve had pimples that lasted longer than Liz Truss arsenic Prime Minister.

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) October 20, 2022

Truss resigned Thursday aft a little and chaotic tenure that saw her denote a monolithic bundle of unfunded taxation cuts earlier unwinding astir of it successful the look of a marketplace rout. Upon quality that she was leaving the pound gained strength and U.K. bonds climbed higher.