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Imagine having a shelf life shorter than an iceberg lettuce. Well, that\u2019s the fate of former British prime minister Liz Truss after she resigned on Thursday.<\/p>\n
But the joke played out by journalists at the Daily Star really got the Twitter memes flying.<\/p>\n
The actual lettuce, that cost the whole of 59p, was live-streamed from their offices this week. On day six it was crowned the winner, complete with gold crown.<\/p>\n
Memes had lettuces projected onto the Houses of Parliament, a Marvel comics-style Lettucehead dragging off a recalcitrant Truss, and the bust of Truss done as a lettuce.<\/p>\n It was Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev who set the tone with a tweet: \u201cWell done lettuce\u201d, to which Elon Musk replied, \u201cPretty good troll,\u201d before asking, \u201cbtw, how are thing\u2019s it going in Bakhmut?\u201d.<\/p>\n Albert Ridsdale tweeted: \u201cLettuce pray for Liz Truss. And all those who can\u2019t afford a cabbage or anything to eat due to tory policies,\u201d in response to a tweeted prayer from the Archbishop of Canterbury for the disgraced prime minister.<\/p>\n Then yesterday anger rose when it emerged that departing prime ministers not only got very lucrative pensions but could draw an allowance of up to \u00a3115 000 a year to run their offices.<\/p>\n One tweeted: \u201cLooking forward to receiving \u00a3115 000 a year for life for spending 45 days doing a job more incompetently than anyone in history.\u201d<\/p>\n Memes had a revolving door fitted into the famed Number 10 frontage, while another showed Number 10 with an Airbnb sign above it and the words \u201cPerfect for short stays\u201d. <\/p>\n Many wondered if she had even had time to undo all of Boris Johnson\u2019s bad taste renovations of the famed property.<\/p>\n And many wits sharpened their pencils as to her legacy.<\/p>\n Patch Thompson noted: \u201cLiz Truss never misses. The Queen, the economy and now the Conservative Party. All in a matter of weeks. Deadly.\u201d<\/p>\n Another meme doing the rounds covers the same ground. <\/p>\n \u201cUK prime minister Liz Truss has resigned. <\/p>\n \u201cHer legacy is quite impressive: buried the queen, the pound, and the Tory party within a few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n One meme takes the picture of her meeting with Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral, with Truss saying \u201cyou don\u2019t look like you\u2019re going to last very long\u201d, and the queen responding \u201cneither do you\u201d.<\/p>\n American commentator Reginald D Hunter makes this observation: \u201cThe beauty of having Liz Truss as PM is that we no longer have to wonder what a Sarah Palin presidency would have looked like.\u201d<\/p>\n LBC noted: \u201cIt was like asking a hospital porter to perform brain surgery\u201d, while Chris Elliott described \u201cLiz Truss the political equivalent of a skid mark.\u201d <\/p>\n A meme as a Gatsby era film poster shows Liz Truss standing dramatically back to back with Kwasi Kwateng and the title How to Lose an Economy in 10 days.<\/p>\n Perhaps one of the more offbeat observations comes from Parody Prime Minister\u2019s comment on former home secretary Suella Braverman, whose odd resignation on Wednesday may have been the final straw that broke the camel\u2019s back. <\/p>\n \u201cSuella Braverman is what happens if you feed Priti Patel after midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n Others speculated on Truss\u2019s future.<\/p>\n Flappyhandski noted: \u201cNottingham Forest are interested in making Liz Truss their 185th signing of the season. <\/p>\n \u201cClub thinks she can play in a variety of positions on the pitch except at No.10.\u201d<\/p>\n While Glenn Evans noted dryly: \u201cLet\u2019s put a positive spin on it for the Tories\u2026 Liz Truss\u2026 the first postwar UK prime minister since Winston Churchill to have served under two monarchs.\u201d <\/p>\n To which King Charles III might aptly reply: \u201cDear, oh dear.\u201d<\/p>\n It was South African Suntosh Pillay\u00b7who took a longer view on the problem: \u201cI feel like decades from now the prize-winning question on some arb reality trivia show is going to be, \u2018Which Prime Minister served a mere 44 days in office?\u2019 The (British) contestant will get it wrong, later Googles Liz Truss, and then falls into a rabbit hole of Twitter memes.\u201d<\/p>\n