A Tory MP attacked Labour over the rail strike and was owned into next week – 9 favourite takedowns
Rail strikes have brought large parts of the public transport system to a halt today and a common line of attack among Tory MPs is to blame it all on Labour.
And surely none of them did it better than Conservative member for Workington, Mark Jenkinson.
It started when the MP spotted this tweet by journalist Kate Ferguson about how teachers are coping with the train stoppage.
Teacher says students are bunking down on their mates’ floors so they can avoid the train strike and get to exams #today
— Kate Ferguson (@kateferguson4) June 21, 2022
And here was Jenkinson’s take on it.
Except it wasn’t the slam-dunk he presumably thought it was. Here are our 9 favourite things people said about it on Twitter.
1.
[pointing at thing literally happening right now under the Tories] if Labour were in power this is how shit life would be right now pic.twitter.com/QEJvQC8sLz
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 21, 2022
2.
Just a Tory MP who doesn't realise thar his own party is in power – and has been for 12 years https://t.co/ZAGNQ2FYnQ
— Otto English (@Otto_English) June 21, 2022
3.
Every single time you think you've found the stupidest member of the 2019 intake, another one puts their hand up. https://t.co/UF63aOziYV
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) June 21, 2022
4.
Every time Mark goes to Parliament he sits on the opposition benches & has to be reminded he should be sitting on the opposite side pic.twitter.com/DoRi7dNCAl
— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 Threads tobyontv (@TobyonTV) June 21, 2022
5.
https://twitter.com/paulsinha/status/1539164309703598082?s=20&t=Z2AximdEZIRdqcyVKaD98g
6.
I'm not convinced voters will respond to this tactic of hammering "the strikes are Labour's fault" at them. It just makes the govt look like whiny babies who can't take responsibility https://t.co/FMbIeUsQF3
— Eddie Robson (@EddieRobson) June 21, 2022
7.
https://twitter.com/twlldun/status/1539151613545398272?s=20&t=Z2AximdEZIRdqcyVKaD98g
8.
— TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) (@TechnicallyRon) June 21, 2022
9.
VOICEOVER: Mark’s party has been in charge, at this point, for over twelve years. ~AA https://t.co/gFTMFw6hNO
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) June 21, 2022
Just in case the name rings a bell, Jenkinson was also the Tory MP who compared Boris Johnson’s Covid breaches to a parking fine.
To conclude …
This is the Conservative Party’s Britain.
Or are you so stupid that you’d forgotten the Tories are in power right now? https://t.co/EsRjsN6aXN
— Miffy (@miffythegamer) June 21, 2022
And this.
You realise this is Tory Britain right now. And more importantly, so do voters.
— Mike Holden 💙 (@MikeHolden42) June 21, 2022
And this!
Nope. I’m done.
This is the Truman Show or some sh**.
None of this is real.
There’s no way an actual human person would spend 12years in government, shaping a country… then say “See! This is what the country would look like if we WEREN’T in power”.
Pineapples!
PINEAPPLES!!
— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) June 21, 2022
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