Famously Violet Elizabeth Truss employed her trademark phrase “I’ll thcream and thcream until I’m thick!” when she couldn’t get her own way, and those around her generally gave in. Her best friend, Kwasi Kwarteng would shrug and think “That’s barmy” but the thought of the poor girl vomiting on the Number 10 carpet was too much for him and he would give in.
But all too quickly the real world encroached on poor Lizzy and her threats were ignored. She blamed everyone but herself for her fall from grace.
Violet Elizabeth couldn’t face up to the fact that she’d blown it. Another once best friend Mark Field did offer to try and comfort her (again) but she decided , probably correctly, that that was a bygone that could be left to be a bygone. She tried praising Donald Trump but he wasn’t having it either “I thought you were a goddam Liberal” he said (he was right of course. And she was also a republican in those days.)
Violet Elizabeth could never be fully part of the established Tory gang. Too girly, and not very good with a catapult. And as, sadly, age and failed ambition began to take its toll life has become a struggle. As she herself put it “I want to be a good girl, but it’s so difficult!”
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