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Ariana Baio
Oct 20, 2022
TV host Jim Cramer calls UK 'a giant clown show' after Liz …
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How the tables have turned.
It seems the UK has become a political laughing stock for the rest of the world as Prime Minister Liz Truss officially announced her resignation Thursday morning following a turbulent week in UK politics.
On Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer called the UK "a giant clown show" saying US markets were likely not going to be impacted by the PM leaving.
"I mean there isn't anything there that impresses me as a valid way to run a country," Cramer told co-host David Faber.
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Cramer criticized Truss for the mini-budget unveiled at the end of September which sent the pound sterling into a spiral.
"This was a great country, could be a great country again," Cramer said.
Faber then asked Cramer to clarify if he was, "talking about us (US) or them (UK)?" To which the Mad Money host said "them".
\u201cHow the UK is being seen across the pond.\n\nJim Cramer(CNBC) - "It's a giant clown show over there... this was a great country... "\u201d— Haggis_UK \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa (@Haggis_UK \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa) 1666282066
Like Cramer, other TV anchors mocked and laughed at the turmoil Truss' short-lived premiership caused.
In Spain, two anchors held back laughter as they described the situation in the UK using words like "humiliation", "chaos", and "laughing stock."
\u201c"Caos", "desprop\u00f3sito", "humillaci\u00f3n", "hazmerreir mundial" o "espect\u00e1culo horrible" son algunos de las palabras m\u00e1s repetidas en los medios brit\u00e1nicos en las \u00faltimas 72 horas ante la dimisi\u00f3n de Liz Truss\n\nLo cuenta @annabosch en #Canal24horas\n\n\u25b6https://t.co/0Ix6dDsBAd\u201d— RTVE Noticias (@RTVE Noticias) 1666279113
German journalist Annette Dittert refused to translate some of the crude language Deputy Chief Whip Craig Whittaker reportedly used after the fracking vote Wednesday evening.
\u201cThis is @annettedittert, Bureau Chief of German broadcaster ARD, reporting on events in Parliament last night. Wait for it.....\u201d— PeteB (@PeteB) 1666266014
Truss announced there would be another Conservative election next week to determine who would be taking her role.
\u201cAlmost impossible to take in the scale of the national humiliation. We are the absolute laughing stock of the world.\u201d— Jonathan Lis (@Jonathan Lis) 1666269401
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