Politics

These Out of context The Thick Of It tweets prove that satire is stone dead

Poke Staff. Updated July 10th, 2022

We’re becoming increasingly concerned for satirists, whose livelihoods may well become yet another casualty of the political disaster engulfing the UK.

Here’s Andrea Jenkyns, newly appointed Education Minister, ‘greeting’ the public.

With real life like that, how can anyone create a spoof?

It’s a fact most accurately illustrated by the Out of context The Thick Of It Twitter account, which consistently pulls up TTOI quotes that say all that needs to be said about the state of politics.

The current mess was exacerbated by MPs being sent out to interviews with information that would be denied just hours later.

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They weren’t very happy about it.

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The Chancellor and Health Secretary were the first to go.

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Many more followed, each stating that the PM should step down.

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Instead, Johnson not only doubled down on his determination to stay in the job, he sacked one of the few people prepared to serve in his cabinet – Michael Gove.

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The pressure ramped up, with a Liaison Committee grilling.

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He still wouldn’t go.

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After sleeping on it, and a few words of persuasion from colleagues – not to mention the cancellation of a planned dinner with a Tory donor – Boris Johnson announced his intention to step down …eventually.

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To sum up the sentiment –

Let’s just hope this doesn’t come true.

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An especially grim finding of the Sue Gray report sent this Thick of It clip viral

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