Which IIRC should be about 140 Truss's

Clearly "Muti" was a solid long term investment.

We need a Prime Minister who is concerned about fixing all of the issues affecting the UK that have appeared in recent years ... but we're only going to get a Prime Minister who's good at getting elected. This is pretty much like writing software and saying it works, but never checking it ... The current update with Liz Truss is just like installing Windows 11 and finding issues that will be "fixed next week" for the next few years.

>we're only going to get a Prime Minister who's good at getting elected

We haven't really had one of them in donkeys. All three of Truss, Johnson and May plumb the depths for least popular party leaders and PMs in recorded history.

Johnson didn't win in 2019 because he was popular or great at elections, he won because he was standing against a hate-filled antisemite who these days spends his time parroting Putin's talking points with his fellow quislings from the so-called stop the war coalition and "Novara Media"

Or because he teamed up with UKIP to have "Brexit Party" candidates to split the vote in labour safe seats.

Presumably the proof will be when the strong and stable conservative candidates all keep their northern seats with an increased majority

"but we're only going to get a Prime Minister who's good at getting elected."

Welcome to 21st Century politics, you'll just love it here. [/s]

Take your pick: weak, ineffectual "progressive" or authoritarian rich-apologist "conservative".

Oh, and BTW, immediately remove any politician preaching that austerity and tax cuts for the top earners will work - just ask Kansas.

But that won't stop them from preaching the same tired, old, hoary beliefs.

>Take your pick: weak, ineffectual "progressive" or authoritarian rich-apologist "conservative".

Given the last UK election was between a "conservative" who raised taxes to their highest levels in history and a "progressive" mostly obsessed with how to help out his mates in Syria and Iran I think it's fairly safe to say this is complete nonsense. If anything we're more at risk of populist extremists engaging in elected tyranny than at any other time since the beginning of last century.

By your measure, we should never have made friends with the Germans after WW2, and should instead drag a conflict out for as longs possible.

I suspect you're afflicted with inkfingers, which BTW gives you cancer. You should avoid printed media

>By your measure, we should never have made friends with the Germans after WW2, and should instead drag a conflict out for as longs possible.

Germans? Pah, we should still be at war with the French!

Wait, England isn't still at war with France?!

Ah. Truss is still in office, and will be until Friday next week.

So a Truss would be, what, 52 days?

She did quit after 44 days, so while she may still be in office, she won't be making any serious decisions... sorry did I say decisions, I meant mistakes. Serious mistakes.

The last bloke was in office for a longer than that and didn't make any decisions either, other than "let's party". So not sure that's a benchmark.

Private Eye helpfully noted that Goebbels was only in power for one day. Nice for the Tories still to have something to aim for.

He might have made bad decisions but it's lazy humour to say he didn't make any. He didn't get so unpopular without doing things that affected people.

You slightly forgot "let's leave the EU"

She also had 10 days in mourning, so is a Truss 34 days active service?

So 10 days without making mistakes then? The queen paid a high price for that, but I'm very grateful.

> she won't be making any serious decisions... sorry did I say decisions, I meant mistakes. Serious mistakes.

Sadly it is quite likely she'll still manage to make serious mistakes ever after resigning.

If you're going to do that, you should submit the two weeks of mourning following the death of the Queen. Otherwise Truss probably wouldn't have made it to the Nasty Tory Party conferences.

Still, if current events are anything to go by, she might be back next year.

Readers will be glad to know that a BOFH/PFY Friday 10.5hr lager and curry bender is the same amount of time as a centi-truss.

Since her chancellor crashed the economy shirly a Kwarteng can now be defined as £/$43,000,000,000. I add the dollar since he nearly brought the pound into parity with the US dollar.

As I closed my eyes to sleep and was about to drift off, something dawned on me.

My son will have seen 4 Prime Ministers, 4 Chancellors, 1 Queen, 1 King, and 1 Lettuce in his life time.

He's 10 months old.

Ouch.

Although I have to say, I find it a bit unfair to mix the Queen in with that bag of nuts.

Yeah, Charles belongs with the other nuts

... delighted to know may have actually thrown his hat into the ring again, according to a report in The Times.

Delighted indeed ...

Those of the sado-masochistic persuasion or downright brain-dead [1]idiots among Tory MPs and/or voters could be drooling at the idea.

But who knows what the Tories will come up with?

After all, they did come up with Truss.

Fortunately, Truss' 44 days in office may have finally put an end to the political and [2]economic policies that have brought the UK to its present situation.

Quite a sad state of affairs.

One which I fear it will take the UK decades to recover from, if at all.

O.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/21/boris-johnson-stand-tory-leadership-race-pm

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/liz-truss-resignation-brexit-brexitism

Tory MPs wanted Sunak from day one. That's why they gave members the choice of either him or the Queen of Turnips. Unfortunately he was in charge of the economy going to shit and people weren't going to forgive him for that so Liz got it instead.

Now it looks for all the world like it will be him and Boris as the final two, which would be a literal "vote Rishi or the party gets it.". I'd expect that Boris will step down at the last minute Leadsom-style allowing Rishi to be appointed by the party elites instead,

As for the plan beyond that, Britain has a surfeit of gas and Europe is expected to run out this winter. I'm guessing someone behind the scenes thinks they can gain some post-Brexit concessions if they have that as a bargaining chip. Not saying it'll work but I can't see anything else that might save the party.

Or maybe they just want to add the first non-white PM to the party's portfolio before they crash out of politics for another decade. Wouldn't bet either way.

"As for the plan beyond that, Britain has a surfeit of gas"

Are you sure about that? Source please.

Have a good weekend. -->

Britain has a surfeit of gas"

Would that be the intestinal type or the kind from down deep in the earth? Inquiring minds and all that....

I suspect the real reason sunak failed last time (oh god someone make it stop) is because he has a strange sounding name and a non british wife(although she maybe british now by marriage and living here 5 years)

That how truss got the job...

And now bozo the clown is back................... >>> icon

Shirley that's mostly a surfeit of gasBAGS. Mostly found in and around the Houses of Parliament.

>Tory MPs wanted Sunak from day one. Unfortunately he was in charge of the economy going to shit and people weren't going to forgive him for that so Liz got it instead.

So Buffers Buffington at the golf club looked at the 10 year gilts yeild curve against GDP and decided to make the white choice

Why are you doing decimal calculations? Wasn't Brexit about going back to sane calculations and bases?

Certainly. I'd suggest we round off a Truss to 4 Scaramouches.

We can then brag that, like gallons, our Scaramouches are bigger than American Scaramuccis. And we have Queen, if not a proper Queen any more, on our side.

Furthermore, henceforth there will be 33 1/3 Trusses in every four years, which of course includes one leap year. That works out at 100 Trusses every 12 years, just to prove that we are not biased against decimal so shut up. God Save the King!

God Save the King!

I didn't know he needed to be saved?!?! Isn't the King supposed to be doing the saving?

I was hoping to calculate my daily energy use in approved Reg units but the lowest £ value that receives a non-zero conversion in any other unit is £10,000 and even now, my energy cost is not that high.

We need a currency unit which is comparable or significantly lower than the pound, or the converter needs to have a better resolution such as nanoPogbas.

Why don't we adopt the [1]Ningi ? Although it'll probably be worth more than the plastic pound shortly.

[1] https://www.acc.umu.se/~ola/hitchhik.htm

The way the pound is going, this won't be a problem for long...

So is that Solar days or Sidereal days?

The Reg Standards Bureau must be precise!

The standards bureau calculation page? (I assume speed will also be updated? I propose LBT or London Bus per Truss.)

I was thinking the other way around. There were time units already:

(square root nanoWales) per (Percentage of maximum velocity of sheep in a vacuum)

square root (Great White Shark Linguine per Noris)

In more [1]standard units , a Truss is about πF.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_system

... a Pfeffel?

I don’t care what it measures as it will probably be useless anyway.

Mine’s the one with nothing at all in any of the pockets.

" I don’t care what it measures as it will probably be useless anyway. "

I nominate that it records the quantity of bullshit. Or the speed of bluster/wind.

1 Pfeffel = 1 Metric Tonne Bullshit

or

1 Pfeffel = Category 4 Hurricane.

Her tenure lasted from the first to her last day officially as PM, there are 45 days in that range.

(If she'd quit on her first day on the job, she would have lasted 1 day as PM. Q.E.D.)

Solar days or Sidereal days?

The Reg Standards Bureau must be precise!

1 Truss ~= 4.89 [1]Schwartzenberg. . The latter was a minister for 9 days, having to resign because he proposed a mandatory AIDS test for pregnant women and the legalization of cannabis.

During the French 4th Republic (1945-1958), some "Présidents du Conseil" lasted only a couple of days.

== Bring us Dabbsy back as Prime Minister! ==

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC261676/

Dabbsy for PM, now there's a movement I can get behind. I doubt he'd want the job though.

Pope John Paul I died suddenly in September 1978, 33 days after his election.

1 Truss = 44 x 24 = 1056 hours

Therefore 1 Millitruss = about 1 hour

Therefore 1 Truss = 1 Kilohour

Or am I just getting my metric and imperial measures hopelessly confused here?