People have gone ape over Rishi Sunak’s plan for the Treasury to produce NFTs – 17 mint responses
As Rishi Sunak suns himself in Santa Monica, at one of his 12 luxury homes, it fell to his deputy, John Glen, to announce the Treasury’s surprising new direction.
According to Glen, the NFT is one aspect of the UK’s push to ‘lead the way’ in cryptocurrency.
Obviously, the government will claim to be world-beating, even if it turns out to have exchanged Buckingham Palace for an energy-sucking NFT of Boris Johnson in a grass skirt and roller boots. It’s what they do.
Labour’s Tulip Siddiq pointed out the problem with the chancellor’s priorities.
Rishi Sunak is totally out of touch. He should be urgently addressing the cost of living crisis, not coming up with gimmicks like this! https://t.co/bYDwgUHK50
— Tulip Siddiq (@TulipSiddiq) April 4, 2022
She was far from being the only person with concerns.
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This is a deeply unserious country https://t.co/oG06mNQFzA
— Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar) April 4, 2022
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Of all the things Sunak could be devoting his time to right now… https://t.co/9w3bT67xJQ
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) April 4, 2022
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We’re going to long for the days of pissing money away on substandard PPE when he announces he invested all our money in a jpg of a monkey https://t.co/OkaFX6umEg
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 4, 2022
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*me in my garden signalling to a passing meteorite to just wipe us out* https://t.co/QDkSfDX34K
— Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) April 4, 2022
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Whenever anyone in the Treasury does their sniffy superior shtick about other departments, remind them of this moment. https://t.co/l2bZBblOxY
— Chris Cook (@xtophercook) April 4, 2022
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Say what you like about this government, our creativity when it comes to pissing money, time and energy away is first class. https://t.co/XNww73mNnO
— THE SECRET TORY 🗽 (@secrettory12) April 4, 2022
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Whoever is advising him doesn’t like him. https://t.co/70YgkCtI7v
— Musa Okwonga (@Okwonga) April 4, 2022
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Joining the list of accounts I've blocked because of jumping on the NFT bandwagon include Duran Duran, Dolly Parton and now the Rishi Sunak and the Royal Mint. https://t.co/Lw4mwA4j7R
— Rob Manuel 🧻 (@robmanuel) April 4, 2022
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Hang on, surely it's too late for April Fools' Day. https://t.co/pQ8aw9S3mH
— Glen O'Hara (@gsoh31) April 4, 2022