‘The Thick of It characters, where are they now?’ is today’s best thing

The Thick of It ran for eight years until 2012 and was last week named by the Guardian as the fourth best TV show of the 21st century.

Seven years after it finished, a chap called David Klemperer (with a little help from Felix Light) got thinking … where are they all now?

And their Twitter thread is today’s best thing.

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https://twitter.com/dmk1793/status/1175064339436515330

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After standing down from Parliament at the 2015 election, Nicola Murray took up her current role as Dean of the Centre for Modern Governance at the University of West Bedfordshire pic.twitter.com/CNL1781zkr

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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After serving loyally in Theresa May's cabinet as Secretary of State for Local Communities, Sir Peter Mannion has had the Conservative whip revoked for voting to block No Deal Brexit pic.twitter.com/LhTR6lBhl8

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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Despite serving a three month suspended sentence for the Tickell leaks, Malcolm Tucker has returned to public life as Director of Strategy for the People's Vote Campaign pic.twitter.com/wSxI9HhlIh

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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Glenn Cullen made a brief return to politics earlier this year, when he stood as an MEP candidate for Change UK pic.twitter.com/YQFDnMQzsK

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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After running Labour's unsuccessful 2015 election campaign, Oliver Reeder moved into the private sector to take up a senior position at Portland Communications pic.twitter.com/z0zlnQvnw2

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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Helen Hatley now writes a weekly column for the Guardian, in which she laments the decline of civility in modern politics pic.twitter.com/1OgQWKw5fr

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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After losing his seat in the 2015 election, Fergus Williams re-located to California, to earn an unspecified six-figure salary as Head of EU Regulatory at LinkedIn pic.twitter.com/WgFAi5s3uw

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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Stewart Pearson authored a slim volume on "Donald Trump and the rise of networked e-democracy", and now markets himself as a guru for populist age.

He writes a regular column for UnHerd, and is soon to be embarking on a speaking tour with Professor Matthew Goodwin. pic.twitter.com/c190mR7qYn

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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Emma Messenger was recently fired from her CCHQ job by Dominic Cummings, and is launching a new career promoting Women in Leadership pic.twitter.com/NxeDYv5Ykr

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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Ben Swain briefly served in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, before resigning in early 2016 to unsuccessfully run for Mayor of the West Midlands pic.twitter.com/8crl1NVOK2

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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Terri Coverly left the civil service with a generous pension, and now devotes herself full-time to FBPE Twitter pic.twitter.com/WuRIeLtBue

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

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Phil Smith entered Parliament at the 2017 election, and has now, inexplicably, been appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pic.twitter.com/hd5YlSJE71

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) 20 September 2019

Beautifully done.

Just absolutely brilliant. C'mon @Aiannucci, make it happen?

— Alistair Campbell (@alistaircampbel) 20 September 2019

We absolutely need more Thick of It.

We just need satire to stop being lapped by reality first. 😁

— MojoBeast (@MojoBeastLP) 20 September 2019

I am not the story

— Malcolm Tucker Esq (@Tucker5law) 20 September 2019

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Source @dmk1793