Blackadder’s Baldrick had a cunning takedown of John Redwood
Here’s Tory MP John Redwood talking Brexit the day before Theresa May’s big speech on how Britain will seamlessly leave the EU and everything’s going to be brilliant.
When I shop I do not put cash on the counter & then ask what the shop might have in return. I ask to see the goods, ask the price & then decide whether to buy. The EU wants us to shop the wrong way round. They expect us to put up a lot of money without telling us what it buys.
— John Redwood (@johnredwood) March 1, 2018
There were no shortage of replies to the former Welsh minister, but this was our favourite.
When I shop I go round the supermarket I’ve been going to for the last 40 years. What I don’t do is slam its door shut, then wander round the world for 10 years looking for other little shops that might one day sell me the same stuff but at higher prices cos they know im a mug. https://t.co/X84RxZeVO4
— Tony Robinson (@Tony_Robinson) March 1, 2018
His response went viral, shared more than 3,000 times and liked 8,000 more on Twitter.