It’s hard to do much in such a short term, and yet she managed to do everything wrong. She appointed a cabinet as rich in diversity as it was void of quality and competence. Her first – and only – big move was to announce the so-called ‘mini-budget’: a scheme so obviously disastrous that the GBP dropped faster than a shady crypto coin. The IMF condemned the budget, Larry Summers compared Britain to an “emerging market,” and the Bank of England promised to spend £65B buying government bonds to shore up the British economy. Her party’s electoral chances were slashed by 80%. She reached the lowest approval rating for a Prime Minister on record. The best one can say of Truss was that she was consistent.
Out now, my sharp summary of the shortest Prime Ministerial term in history, out now in the Backpages of Tablet’s ‘The Scroll’.
The artwork here was generated using PlaygroundAI.com - a really interesting AI image generating program that uses Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 - and it’s both incredibly fun to use, and very interesting. I intend to write a detailed piece on the subject soon.
A tweet with some more of them made with my prompts: