Following the decisions made in the first few weeks of her premiership and their financial consequences, Prime Minister Liz Truss continues to receive heavy criticism.
On October 18, Truss apologised for going “too far and too fast” with her policies but insisted that she would lead the Conservative Party into the next elections, despite almost all of her financial policies being scrapped by the new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt.
While some, including members of the Conservative Party, have chosen to take a more serious approach when disapproving of Truss’ leadership, others have chosen a more light-hearted and comedic route.
One of these humorous criticisms was a video that transformed Truss and her cabinet into the Muppet Show cast and went viral.
The meme kicks off with the curtains opening up to show the 10 Downing Street entrance, before showing a muppet playing the piano with a photograph of Margaret Thatcher pinned to the piano.
Then, the PM and her cabinet sing and dance in the House of Commons, while Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and SNP leader in the House of Commons Ian Blackford exclaim: “It’s kind of like torture to have to watch this show.”
That’s when the widely shared clip of Liz Truss vacantly staring at the audience and humming plays alongside videos of her previous chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and a chart featuring the drop of the pound.
A creative montage of Parliament and Big Ben leads to Truss’s infamous “pork markets” joke that she had made during the 2014 Conservative Party Conference.
It ends with viewers being shown a door with the signs “1922 Committee” and “Meeting in Progress”, as the voices of muppet critics Waldorf and Statler discuss how “awful” everything has been, ending with booing.
The viral video was uploaded by a Twitter user named Colin McQuaid on October 15, and has now been watched by more than a million people.
It has also received more than 20,000 likes and thousands of retweets.
