Oona Keating. Updated on August 9, 2022
Rishi Sunak is apparently panicking about his poor poll results because not only did he frequently invoke the dreaded B-word – Brexit – in his latest pledge, he did so with bells, whistles … and a shredder.
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Let’s save Brexit👇 #Ready4Rishi https://t.co/3cXn1rFhca pic.twitter.com/BjdRVJSvJz
– Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) August 8, 2022
Does he not realize that members of the Tory Party have vowed to smash any device that plays the EU anthem, Ode to Joy?
Boris Johnson’s more talented understudy had a question.
Protect Brexit from what – reality?
— Parody Boris (@Parody_PM) August 8, 2022
This was not the only problem.
1.
Discovering that the Cabinet believes that simply shredding a paper copy of EU law is enough to legally nullify it actually explains much of the last few years. https://t.co/IcjyskiQiT
— Dmitry Hrazubinsky (@DmitryOpines) August 8, 2022
2.
Christ
What a crazy and unimaginable waste of time that would be at any time
Let people be hungry and cold… https://t.co/C0DavhtLEW
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) August 8, 2022
3.
Good Rishi, nothing says raising the bar like a billionaire ditching the protections of labor and environmental regulations.
— SECRET TORRY 🇬🇧 (@secrettory12) August 8, 2022
4.
the only possible explanation for this video is that Rishi Sunak started drinking pic.twitter.com/nUBKberf0r
— Henry Mance (@henrymance) August 8, 2022
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Six years on from the referendum, we’re about to get our third prime minister and we’re still in the ‘what the hell are we going to do then’ phase of leaving the EU https://t.co/q3ZHA6U39m
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) August 8, 2022
6.
What does ‘Keep Brexit’ even mean?
It was absolute in every way. It is not a precious treasure, it is not a fragile treasure. It’s been a bull in the grocery store through our economy.
What exactly is it trying to keep safe?— Emma Kennedy💙 (@EmmaKennedy) August 8, 2022
7.
Excuse me, excuse me? https://t.co/p94Xm3Tw71
— James O Brien (@mrjamesob) August 8, 2022
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Rishi Sunak impresses us all with his information security awareness using a shredder without a cross section https://t.co/88iUSo7us6
— Dr. Philip Lee (@drphiliplee1) August 8, 2022
Rishi Sunak’s latest pledge arrived with the most cringeworthy video of the campaign