The government may implement blackouts this winter in its continuing homage to the 70s – 21 favourite responses
12.
BREAKING: If you doubted for one second post-Brexit Britain was going to be brilliant, you will be thrilled to hear the UK government is planning for blackouts this winter x
— Laura Kuenssberg Translator (@BBCLauraKT) August 9, 2022
13.
Woo! 'My back to the seventies' scorecard is nearly full!
Oil crisis ✔️
Power cuts ✔️
Heatwave/water rationing ✔️
Stratospheric inflation ✔️
Hard borders ✔️
Holding out for 'platform shoes', 'Cadbury's Smash', and the test card. https://t.co/FaF9TkSBrE via @bpolitics— Stephen McGann💙 (@StephenMcGann) August 9, 2022
14.
Phew – glad we avoided this! pic.twitter.com/XFeMxBz4D6
— Benjamin Tassie (@benjamintassie) August 9, 2022
15.
Cue people saying stop scaremongering, we lived through this in the 70s, yes but we didn't rely on the internet, electric cars or in some cases life preserving home hospital treatment back then. https://t.co/Vce5Z53Lbq
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) August 9, 2022
16.
Will we still be allowed to pay our excessively high energy bills though?? I want to make sure all my money goes to rich old white men, as I freeze to death https://t.co/UcU7nEAvM2
— James Moran (@jamesmoran) August 9, 2022
17.
I lived through the Seventies. It was rubbish. I think today’s politicians have forgotten how close we came back then to bloody revolution. https://t.co/MgrwTnD4fA
— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) August 9, 2022
18.
Excellent plan, no notes https://t.co/saA0NZqede
— Sophia Dourou (@SophiaDourou) August 9, 2022
19.
Fixed that for you https://t.co/HncUhQRK5r pic.twitter.com/EGfOAriSeh
— Gary Brannan (@garybrannan) August 9, 2022
20.
I swear this government won’t be happy until we’re all milking cats on the street just to survive.
— Simon Harris – #LovelyBitOfSquirrel (@simonharris_mbd) August 9, 2022
21.
I knew this saved tweet from a few months ago would come in handy. https://t.co/eMW5l54JRv pic.twitter.com/txEAuoGk5l
— Michael Glasper (@michaelglasper) August 9, 2022
Bet you’re glad we aren’t mired in chaos with this guy.
This is the disgraceful result of 12 years of Tory government that has failed to prepare and refused to invest: scrapping all home insulation programmes, blocking the cheapest power (onshore wind & solar) and closing our gas storage. Bills are higher & our country is less secure. https://t.co/IYysu54oaO
— Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) August 9, 2022
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