Sky’s Sophy Ridge telling a government minister that she’s just making stuff up is a magnificent watch
You’ll probably remember how a little while ago Rishi Sunak was proudly telling everyone who was still listening that he was ditching the ‘tax on meat’.
Despite basically the entirety of humanity telling the PM that no-one – not the Labour Party or anyone else – had ever proposed a tax on eating meat, the untruth continues to circulate in government.
And today it was new Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero – Google, Google – Claire Coutinho’s turn to wang on about the meat tax and it’s fair to say Sky News presenter Sophy Ridge was having none of it.
And it’s a magnificent – a truly magnificent – watch.
Sky's Sophy Ridge reads out part of the Energy Secretary's speech where she says, 'there's no wonder Labour seem so relaxed about taxing meat…' – and asks: "You didn't write that, did you? They're not proposing a meat tax?"#PoliticsHub https://t.co/GlTNastFii
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— Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge (@SkyPoliticsHub) October 2, 2023
Bravo!
And here is just a little bit of the love people had for it.
Absolutely INCREDIBLE moment.
New Environment Secretary Claire Coutinho, caught red-handed by @SophyRidgeSky making stuff up, just tries to blag through it.
Ends up basically suggesting that, since "Starmer won't tell us what he really thinks", it's okay to make stuff up. pic.twitter.com/7frb8DyvoC
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) October 2, 2023
This is excellent, and actually made all the more enjoyable by the minister actually being allowed to get all the way through her panicked, meaningless waffly word salad non answers, instead of being interrupted. https://t.co/J9PTw7qIif
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) October 3, 2023
Absolutely SHREDDING ministerial standards. Well done, to Sophy Ridge for holding firm. Completely incredible that a minister should think this is okay. https://t.co/l7EXFwc29a
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) October 2, 2023
Right wing politicians everywhere are testing the waters to see just how much reality they are allowed to completely make up. This is a good example of what to do about it. https://t.co/SM3hE5OXxs
— Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) October 3, 2023
THIS IS PROPER JOURNALISM
— Sam Bright (@WritesBright) October 2, 2023
Another masterclass from @SophyRidgeSky in how to hold these truth twisters to account https://t.co/GWo0xrhH47
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) October 3, 2023
Congratulations to Sophie Ridge. It is not OK for Claire Coutinho to talk about Keir Starmer's "meat tax" or Mark Harper to talk about local authorities powers to "limit shopping choices"? When did it become part of a minister's job to promote non-existent conspiracy theories? https://t.co/sB0OFseU2v
— Stephen Dorrell (@stephen_dorrell) October 2, 2023
To conclude …
British comedy at its finest, British politics at its worst https://t.co/4r8MVBcNth
— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) October 3, 2023
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Source @SkyPoliticsHub
