Tory MPs want £120m of lottery money to buy a new royal yacht. The only 8 tweets you need

50 Tory MPs have had a spiffing wheeze – to launch a new lottery game to raise the £120m needed to pay for a new royal yacht.

Not just any yacht, you’ll understand, but a royal yacht Britannia to “showcase post-Brexit Britain and bring trade to our shores’.

Oh yes it will! (Well, it IS panto season). Here are our favourite responses to this ingenious idea online.

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Fifty elected representatives want you to buy scratch cards to buy a yacht for a woman worth about half a billion quid. I’m running out of words. Might just play records in 2018.

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) December 28, 2017

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If the Tories think the Queen needs a new yacht then sell a palace or auction off some paintings that are gathering dust. Even better, hold a Gary Barlow hosted 'Her Majesty in Need' night on BBC1. Just see how much they raise then. We have 9,000 humans sleeping on our streets.

— Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective (@Rachael_Swindon) December 28, 2017

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https://twitter.com/grahamlithgow/status/946360309903699969

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https://twitter.com/withorpe/status/946437710952222720

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https://twitter.com/mutablejoe/status/946162904759521281

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For god's sake, stop carping and let the Queen have a new yacht like any normal 91 year old great grandmother.

— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) December 28, 2017

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These are the 50 Tory MPs that want a lottery-funded Royal Yacht, costing £120 million. Cancer sufferers are denied £30 a week, rough sleepers are dying on our streets at an average age of just 47 and 127,600 children need somewhere they can call their home. Have a think on this. pic.twitter.com/CxZ2S2UiuO

— Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective (@Rachael_Swindon) December 28, 2017