17 funny and essential topical tweets from this week
We’ve spotted some great topical tweets this week, and we’ve gathered the ones that either came too late to make it into a relevant round-up or were just free-floating out there with an unmissable take on current affairs.
It’s like a news round-up, but with laughs.
1.
Hold a chicken in the air
Pump raw shit into the sea
Spend six weeks abroad
As we face catastrophe
Leave a trail of lies
Written on the Brexit bus
And condemn us all
To the new PM Liz Truss pic.twitter.com/qEjS0VAg1d— Robin Flavell (@RobinFlavell) August 29, 2022
2.
Work begins on govt’s £5 billion broadband rollout, in order to ensure everyone can Google how to prepare and cook roadkill over the winter.
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) August 30, 2022
3.
It’s not that the government isn’t reading the room; it’s that the room they’re reading is the dining hall in the workhouse from Oliver Twist, while digesting a heavy meal in a leather armchair, warmed by a blazing log fire, swilling brandy, and dreaming of hedge funds.
— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) August 30, 2022
4.
Sept 5th – Liz Truss becomes PM
Sept 6th – Liz Truss goes to Balmoral to meet the Queen
Sept 12th – Liz Truss officially declared as missing.
Sept 30th – Liz Truss is found lost in a toilet in the castle's West wing, unable to find the door & surviving by eating bits of loo roll— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) September 1, 2022
5.
2016: sunlit uplands
2022: hard border with the Magic Kingdom pic.twitter.com/oMT1tshitE
— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV) August 30, 2022
6.
We should definitely privatise our NHS…
Look how well it’s worked out for energy, rail, water, dentistry, Royal Mail, etc
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) August 30, 2022
7.
May all of you live in homes as nice as any of Rishi Sunak's 12 houses, with salaries matching Owen Paterson's second job, central heating as warm as Nadhim Zahawi's stables, and holidays as regular as Boris Johnson's
— David__Osland (@David__Osland) August 27, 2022
8.
Is that because she’s threatened by their IQ? pic.twitter.com/6N7hjVoiZI
— Shaun Keaveny 💙 (@shaunwkeaveny) September 1, 2022
9.
I understand that this year’s John Lewis advert features a family who are evicted when they can’t pay their bills, forcing them to trudge the streets in search of warmth. But all ends well when they get to spend Christmas in Nadhim Zahawi’s stables.
— Keith Burge (@carryonkeith) August 27, 2022