This fabulous takedown of Esther McVey’s ‘fake flag fury’ was magnificently done

John Plunkett. Updated April 3rd, 2024

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It’s been cut in half, bent and recoloured…

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— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) April 2, 2024

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It’s been a horse dancing with a tree…

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— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) April 2, 2024

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It’s been brutally truncated.

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— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) April 2, 2024

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It’s had all its colour vampirically drained…

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— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) April 2, 2024

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It’s been cut in half, deformed and turned into a glorified shower curtain…

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— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) April 2, 2024

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For the final word, it’s back to Esther McVey: “I’m proud of our national flag – can everyone leave it alone & keep it just as it is.”

Or alternatively if you’ve spent decades messing with it, don’t get fake furious when others see it as inspiration too.https://t.co/CxvgcxMY64

— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) April 2, 2024

And just a few of the comments it prompted …

This is so, so funny ✔️ https://t.co/jNMCLyfr0G

— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) April 2, 2024

There is no hypocrite like a conservative right leaning hypocrite. No matter what country they come from, if they lean right, chances are they are hypocrites.

— OO (@Tuminu) April 2, 2024

And this, ladies and gentlemen is the very reason why French electoral law strictly prohibits the use of the tricolour flag in all and any electoral propaganda, pamphlets, leaflets, websites, posters or any other visuals. No flag, no problem.

— JB Perrin – friend – Eur Geopolitics graduate (@alphast) April 2, 2024

This is a very enjoyable thread on the Tories liberally bastardising the U.K. flag…when it suits them…

Yet trying to own it when they are pumping up division and general stupidity and unpleasantness. https://t.co/vnvBABS55v

— Fionna O’Leary, (@fascinatorfun) April 2, 2024

She must be livid with UKIP then. pic.twitter.com/09PtEr8ZUr

— Finn FRSC ⚗️(+=) (@Finndog2018) April 2, 2024

It was also redesigned aaaaaages ago. pic.twitter.com/9BmLeZX9Fn

— M S (@Bulbheed) April 2, 2024

Hilarious thread unstitching the Tories’ posturing pomposity about a piece of cloth. https://t.co/PcCARGo0Pc

— Dr Simon Ubsdell (@SimonUbsdell) April 2, 2024

BA did NOT change the flag , it was replaced with different tail fin designs. But it’s a stylised version anyway. It’s an aircraft not a ship flying the chuffin red ensign

— Colin Brazier #proeu (@MmmmTrams) April 2, 2024

And of course she presented a GB News show for around 2 years, a channel whose whole look is hacked up parts of the union flag.

— john (@el_snoop) April 2, 2024

Source @edwinhayward

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