A Tory MP commented on ‘I, Daniel Blake’ and got totally roasted – the only 14 burns you need to read

Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, James Cleverly, has consistently voted against helping those most in need of welfare benefits, but decided to make a joke about them on Twitter.

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Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey‘s tweet about Ken Loach’s welfare docudrama, ‘I, Daniel Blake’, was obviously too tempting for him to ignore. This was her comment.

If anyone is in any doubt of the human cost of Tory austerity on our communities please watch I, Daniel Blake tonight at 9.45pm on BBC 2 https://t.co/8glHQL1wln

— Rebecca Long-Bailey (@RLong_Bailey) January 5, 2019

This was James Cleverly’s snipe:

Twitter users weren’t impressed and let him know it, in no uncertain terms.

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James Cleverly: resisting nominative determinism since 1969. https://t.co/l6wto0Sk6R

— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) January 5, 2019

2.

https://twitter.com/JacketPotato97/status/1081620415343198209

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https://twitter.com/David__Osland/status/1081623577080877056

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Thousands dead and millions of children's lives blighted due to sadistic and unnecessary Tory austerity, yet the best a Tory can say is 'Daniel Blake is not a documentary'.

No, if it was it would go on for nine effin' years and we'd witness many preventable suicides. https://t.co/1sbAg2oGIK

— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) January 5, 2019

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You do realise you are a member of the worst and most dangerously incompetent governing party in living memory, don't you? https://t.co/Nkjx5d80Cv

— Peter Smith (@Redpeter99) January 5, 2019

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https://twitter.com/YodaLayHeToo/status/1081621729326321665

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You do realise that it's a feature film dramatising actual cases, don't you.

Don't you? https://t.co/qWUGUMOagE

— illinois cook 🇵🇸 (@illi4141) January 5, 2019