Bananas, smoke and mirrors – 18 brutally honest assessments of Boris Johnson’s reset speech

10.

BREAKING: Boris Johnson has done his big speech in Blackpool to make everyone forget they hate him, but all it's done is remind everyone they hate him x

— Laura Kuenssberg Translator (@BBCLauraKT) June 9, 2022

11.

Apologies but…
Johnson’s speech? Totally fucking stupid
New ideas? Either not new or totally fucking stupid
Rwanda policy? Totally shameful, probably illegal
Trashing NI protocol? Totally fucking stupid, probably illegal

Beyond sick of this evil idiocy pretending to be a govt.

— sarah murphy (@13sarahmurphy) June 9, 2022

12.

"Ignore everything you can see, you've never been better off. Forget 2020 ever happened, it's impossible to spend your way out of a crisis. We're cutting spending, but we're spending more. We're doing more, but stepping back. Olive Oil. Bananas." #BorisJohnson , Blackpool speech

— Adam (@chugbass) June 9, 2022

13.

Why does it seem like Boris Johnson comes up with new flagship policies on the back of an envelope?

— Matthew Stadlen (@MatthewStadlen) June 9, 2022

14.

His own govt set the UK’s tariff schedule when we left the EU https://t.co/CSUMZb0Ah2

— Captain Haddock (@JXB101) June 9, 2022

15.

Ten points and a full house to whoever had olive oil and bananas on their Boris Johnson speech bingo card

— Caitlin Doherty (@_CaitlinDoherty) June 9, 2022

16.

For those that missed Johnson's speech today, allow me to summarise:-

Waffle. Lie. Olives. More waffle. Lie. Bananas. Extra waffle. Tax. Lie. Spaff. Waffle. Lie.

You're welcome.

— Mark Brett 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@themarkgodfrey) June 9, 2022

17.

I really hope there are some Tory MPs watching this garbage speech with a creeping sense of shame about the way they voted on Monday.

— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) June 9, 2022

18.

Six years to think about it and all they come up with is BS like this. https://t.co/crZKrdrEkv

— Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 (@arthistorynews) June 9, 2022

Tom Peck summed up the speech perfectly.

Is anyone else watching this fascinating new reality show on sky news right now, where some guy from the pub has to get on stage with a second’s notice and launch a brand new plan for housing entirely off the top of his head?

— Tom Peck (@tompeck) June 9, 2022

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