Anyone find it pretty bizarre the Queen died under Truss' PMship?
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« on: October 20, 2022, 01:07:26 PM »

That's going to look like such a bizarre historical fluke in hindsight. What are the odds that that would happen under such a laughably short premiership?
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2022, 01:08:56 PM »

Yeah, absolutely. 70 years on the throne and she died during a primiership that won't even last 100 days.
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2022, 01:11:17 PM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 
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« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2022, 02:23:38 PM »

Queen Elizabeth I: 46 years
Queen consort/mother Elizabeth 65 years
Queen Elizabeth 2: 70 years
Elizabeth Truss: 45 days
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« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2022, 02:24:45 PM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 

No, the economic damage and the political fallout from that are both real and will both likely be regarded as significant.
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« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2022, 02:26:17 PM »

Two days before Elizabeth II died she appointed the shortest-serving PM in British history.
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« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2022, 03:34:56 PM »

Yeah weirdly enough I wish the Queen had not died under Truss, she doesn't deserve such a special though obviously meaningless distinction. She should only be known as the mad woman who crashed the pound then got chucked out in record time.
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« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2022, 03:40:23 PM »

Yeah weirdly enough I wish the Queen had not died under Truss, she doesn't deserve such a special though obviously meaningless distinction. She should only be known as the mad woman who crashed the pound then got chucked out in record time.

Plus it added around 12 days to her premiership.
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« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2022, 03:41:33 PM »

On the contrary, I find it very fitting.
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« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2022, 03:48:55 PM »

No it's not at all bizarre if you know The Plan. Thanks, agent Truss
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« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2022, 05:15:32 PM »

No it's not at all bizarre if you know The Plan. Thanks, agent Truss

You mean Comrade Truss, right?
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« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2022, 05:22:08 PM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 

No, the economic damage and the political fallout from that are both real and will both likely be regarded as significant.

Noteworthy in this sense means the thing people will remember the most.  No one will be asking bar trivia questions about the mini-budget in the year 2350.
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« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2022, 05:30:07 PM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 

No, the economic damage and the political fallout from that are both real and will both likely be regarded as significant.

Noteworthy in this sense means the thing people will remember the most.  No one will be asking bar trivia questions about the mini-budget in the year 2350.

Well, if Truss will be known for being the shortest-serving PM it is likely that it will also be known why she stopped being PM in the first place. Maybe not the specifics or the even the name of the mini-budget, but that she almost immediately resigned after almost immediately crashing the markets.
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« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2022, 05:40:56 PM »

Who was prime minister when Victoria died? I don’t have a clue

Who was the prime minister 8 years later who passed the peoples budget? Lloyd George

I think prime ministers policy achievements, or the opposite in fact, are more memorable than which royal happened to die  on their watch
Apparently it was Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. My brain could recall Henry Campbell-Bannerman, that was as close as I could get.
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« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2022, 05:42:42 PM »

Clearly Truss, whose anti monarchy views are well known, must be made a suspect in this unlikely death.
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« Reply #15 on: October 20, 2022, 06:34:11 PM »

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« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2022, 08:58:57 PM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 

No, the economic damage and the political fallout from that are both real and will both likely be regarded as significant.

Noteworthy in this sense means the thing people will remember the most.  No one will be asking bar trivia questions about the mini-budget in the year 2350.

No one will be asking bar trivia questions at all in the year 2350, given that everybody will be able to download all information about everything directly into their cerebral cortex. Smiley
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« Reply #17 on: October 20, 2022, 09:03:31 PM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 

No, the economic damage and the political fallout from that are both real and will both likely be regarded as significant.

Noteworthy in this sense means the thing people will remember the most.  No one will be asking bar trivia questions about the mini-budget in the year 2350.

No one will be asking bar trivia questions at all in the year 2350, given that everybody will be able to download all information about everything directly into their cerebral cortex. Smiley

That’s only the future if you vote Democrat.
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« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2022, 09:13:25 PM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 

No, the economic damage and the political fallout from that are both real and will both likely be regarded as significant.

Noteworthy in this sense means the thing people will remember the most.  No one will be asking bar trivia questions about the mini-budget in the year 2350.

No one will be asking bar trivia questions at all in the year 2350, given that everybody will be able to download all information about everything directly into their cerebral cortex. Smiley

That’s only the future if you vote Democrat.

Let's hope so!
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« Reply #19 on: October 20, 2022, 11:35:06 PM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 

No, the economic damage and the political fallout from that are both real and will both likely be regarded as significant.

Noteworthy in this sense means the thing people will remember the most.  No one will be asking bar trivia questions about the mini-budget in the year 2350.

Nobody will be alive in 2350.
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« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2022, 11:39:46 PM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 

No, the economic damage and the political fallout from that are both real and will both likely be regarded as significant.

Noteworthy in this sense means the thing people will remember the most.  No one will be asking bar trivia questions about the mini-budget in the year 2350.

Nobody will be alive in 2350.

Speak for yourself.
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« Reply #21 on: October 21, 2022, 12:25:16 AM »

It will likely be the only historically noteworthy thing about her premiership in retrospect. 

No, the economic damage and the political fallout from that are both real and will both likely be regarded as significant.

Noteworthy in this sense means the thing people will remember the most.  No one will be asking bar trivia questions about the mini-budget in the year 2350.

Nobody will be alive in 2350.

That’s only the future if you vote Republican.
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« Reply #22 on: October 21, 2022, 10:55:12 AM »

Who was prime minister when Victoria died? I don’t have a clue

Who was the prime minister 8 years later who passed the peoples budget? Lloyd George

I think prime ministers policy achievements, or the opposite in fact, are more memorable than which royal happened to die  on their watch
Apparently it was Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. My brain could recall Henry Campbell-Bannerman, that was as close as I could get.

Tories won a landslide in a GE held just months before her death, then literally gave up on governing before their term was up because the party had basically become a dysfunctional rabble.

Ring any bells?
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« Reply #23 on: October 21, 2022, 03:56:58 PM »

Yeah, absolutely. 70 years on the throne and she died during a primiership that won't even last 100 days.
Probably all it’ll be remembered for. The fact a white man ran Zambia briefly is also up there.
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