‘Iron Man Boris’ – 13 simply Marvel-ous responses to today’s Daily Express front page
Even by Boris Johnson’s own extraordinary standards, the Prime Minister’s Conservative party conference speech was widely considered to be big on blather, small on, well, pretty much anything else.
And it got people wondering what – in the absence of concrete policy proposals and stuff like that – how certain elements of the media would cover it.
And here’s your answer, the front page of today’s Daily Express.
Thursday’s Express: “Iron Man Boris: I’ll unleash the spirit of Britain” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/7FuHsAa3Vz pic.twitter.com/hYMHWqQC09
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 6, 2021
Well, it’s one way of covering it, definitely. And it prompted no end of Marvel-ous responses on Twitter. Here are 13 of our favourites.
1.
Even Nth Korea state media would be like…maybe we should take it down just a notch or two. pic.twitter.com/8eIpb59hMe
— Tom Jamieson (@jamiesont) October 7, 2021
2.
I suggested yesterday that it would be hard to get a substantive front page from the contents of the speech. And here we are. pic.twitter.com/nK78BWYsjZ
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) October 7, 2021
3.
Just another silly day on Normal Island where one of our most popular newspapers tells its sizeable readership that the Prime Minister is an Iron Man who is also sort of a wizard. pic.twitter.com/UirkPagmiG
— Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) October 7, 2021
4.
Bet this is what he says as he comes pic.twitter.com/UdZK5cTbpp
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) October 7, 2021
5.
https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1446003374122487811?s=20
6.
Fun fact: North Koreans believe that Kim Jong-il and his dad Kim Il-sung had something called chukjibeop, a magic ability a bit like the force, that could unleash the spirit of Korea… pic.twitter.com/NV4YNIOUUr
— Otto English (@Otto_English) October 7, 2021
7.
"Unleashing the spirit"? It sounds like the empty bluster of a spirit medium with all of the fakery and false promises to somehow revive an entity that is irrevocably dead, and in doing so preying on the emotional yearnings of the vulnerable and gullible. pic.twitter.com/RH7vPBVxAr
— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) October 7, 2021
8.
https://twitter.com/TSting18/status/1446015691988078592?s=20
9.
https://twitter.com/shaunwkeaveny/status/1446017564983898114?s=20
10.
How long before the express leads with a photo of Johnson riding topless on a horse? pic.twitter.com/XmVMZKJqH9
— TinTin’s Grandad (@casawolf) October 6, 2021
11.
https://twitter.com/ClientJournoExp/status/1446011240984285185?s=20
12.
Boris Johnson is like Iron Man in the same way Thanos is like Ghandi pic.twitter.com/4D0mmZGCHi
— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) October 6, 2021
13.
https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1446016685010558979?s=20
And also this.
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) October 7, 2021
And this!
Here I am unleashing the Spirit of Britain. pic.twitter.com/6nLKPc8EXg
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) October 7, 2021
Don’t have nightmares.
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