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I can't believe Liz Truss is 47..

279 replies

AirborneSnail · 08/10/2022 07:16

Following on from a thread yesterday, I guessed Liz was 56. I was shocked to hear she's a decade younger. I guess I am being unreasonable. It was probably the photo of her having a meeting wearing comfy trainers that did it. How old would you have guessed she was?

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MarshaBradyo · 08/10/2022 14:35

MyCatIsAChonk · 08/10/2022 14:12

mumsnet is really courting the clickbait by keeping this up isn't it? Is pulling a woman's looks apart "in the spirit of the site"?

Things must be dire

TheLoupGarou · 08/10/2022 14:37

I think she looks her age but her style makes her look older most of the time.

the80sweregreat · 08/10/2022 14:55

Not everyone on here has been horrible though

Ms Truss has to look smart as she is a professional woman with the top top job in the country.
I'm waiting for the day the Labour Party have a lady leader too and I'm not a conservative voter at all.

Alltheholidays · 08/10/2022 15:11

Somebody said she had work done. I’d be asking for my money back!
All the faux outrage about supposed misogyny. It’s an observation. People do it all the time.

Some of the stuff that was posted about Bo jo, and little Marty Hancock. 😀
Keir Starmer looks about 50. Can’t believe he’s late 50’s.

the80sweregreat · 08/10/2022 15:20

Boris Johnson could look smart if he tried.
The hair thing was deliberate though.
He just didn't have the slimmer silhouette or the height to look really good in a well cut suit.
It's easier for the men though : a trip to Saville row or somewhere and your sorted out. I'd love to be a man as I find most women's clothes don't fit me and dresses make me look like a wrestler wearing a nice dress.
I can't wear heels either which can finish off an outfit.

leccybill · 08/10/2022 15:21

She's a bit hard faced, as my mum would say.

fluffinsalad · 08/10/2022 15:23

2022 and women are still slagging off women on their looks

the80sweregreat · 08/10/2022 15:31

Women in the work place have become much more hard nosed I think
It's very competitive now and any weakness or empathy and your toast.
All this 'aspire nation ' will drive this forwards for people to fight over those jobs.
We are becoming more American in this respect I think.

topcat2014 · 08/10/2022 16:12

Tories are hated and Labour loved..

Kier Starmer looks a decade older than me and I am 50.

Liz Truss looks exactly the same as all the mid 40s women in my workplace.

Newspapers always choose the least flattering photo of any politician.

Alltheholidays · 08/10/2022 16:16

@leccybill Perfect description of her.

the80sweregreat · 08/10/2022 16:17

I couldn't put an age on Kier Starmer if I couldn't look him up and he wasn't well known / in the public eye etc.
I'd say 50s? He looks like he takes care of himself though.

WahineToa · 08/10/2022 16:52

why don't you just accept that?

because I don’t want to. Why don’t you just accept it’s misogynistic and nasty to tear apart a woman’s looks? Just because something is allowed doesn’t mean it isn’t fucked up.

Anonymouseposter · 08/10/2022 17:01

I think her policies are disastrous and even cruel. Don’t care what age she looks. Women being misogynistic to another woman. She’s a politician not a model.

derxa · 08/10/2022 17:02

WahineToa · 08/10/2022 10:50

Imagine starting a thread like this about Rupa Huq? Would you? Would MN allow it? ( they don’t support free speech at all, plenty of nasty misogynistic posts are deleted when they’re targeting certain people ) Rupa is a similar age. It’s not just that this is a woman, she’s a conservative woman and they’re the worst kind. Right?

Brits, their hypocrisy and class obsession huh.

I did start a thread about Rupa Huq but it was about what she said about Kwasi Kwarteng.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson
Have a look at Wilson's picture on wiki I believe he was 46 when it was taken

LadyVictoriaSponge · 08/10/2022 17:06

It’s just her style that makes her appear older and also psychologically we think a Prime minister is much older than mid forties so we are projecting that onto her subconsciously I think. In this picture she looks like an average mid forties woman to me.

I can't believe Liz Truss is 47..
LadyVictoriaSponge · 08/10/2022 17:09

And here as well

I can't believe Liz Truss is 47..
the80sweregreat · 08/10/2022 17:10

She looks nice dressed down
I used to like Theresa May's leopard skin shoes.
Do politicians have stylists ? Hair dressers etc?

AlecTrevelyan006 · 08/10/2022 17:22

topcat2014 · 08/10/2022 16:12

Tories are hated and Labour loved..

Kier Starmer looks a decade older than me and I am 50.

Liz Truss looks exactly the same as all the mid 40s women in my workplace.

Newspapers always choose the least flattering photo of any politician.

Well, if you are 50 then Starmer is a decade older than you.

Goingtoqueens · 08/10/2022 17:28

What a nasty thread. Who cares how old she looks? How sexist!

Alltheholidays · 08/10/2022 17:32

It’s truss who’s nasty. Apart from her doing her best to fuck the country up, her personal morals leave a lot to be desired,
like her old boss Boris, she’s known to shag anything that moves!

Crankley · 08/10/2022 17:36

What a scummy little thread. Why don't you post some pics of you OP, so we can make bitchy comments about how old you look?

okytdvhuoo · 08/10/2022 18:06

Crankley · 08/10/2022 17:36

What a scummy little thread. Why don't you post some pics of you OP, so we can make bitchy comments about how old you look?

Hear hear

SofiaSoFar · 08/10/2022 18:52

...It’s just her style that makes her appear older and also psychologically we think a Prime minister is much older than mid forties

"We" think a Prime minister is much older..."

Do "we"?

DandyMandy · 08/10/2022 22:25

I think she looks fine. I find it disturbing how people are going on and bashing her for having pale skin. Pale skin is beautiful and it's the native/indigenous skin colour of the UK and Ireland. No one would talk about how dark a politicians skin is so it's inappropriate to talk about how "sickly" she apparently looks.

vera99 · 08/10/2022 22:39

LadyVictoriaSponge · 08/10/2022 17:09

And here as well

She's got an umbrella up and it's not raining and the ground is dry. As Cumming's said batshit crazy.

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