This Morning’s competition to win an energy bill payment didn’t pass the taste test

Liz Truss – the Prime Minister elect, get used to it – told Laura Kuenssberg that she would unveil policies to help with the energy crisis within seven days of being elected.

For those who don’t feel they can wait that long, there’s always *checks notes* This Morning.

#ThisMorning has turned completely dystopian and Black Mirror by offering to pay energy bills as a competition prize. pic.twitter.com/hs1DD6NXbo

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) September 5, 2022

You know you live in a broken country when a daytime TV show is giving away electricity money as a grand prize.

1.

I’m old enough to remember when the prize was a holiday https://t.co/VStchGiFo9

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) September 5, 2022

2.

Absolute ghouls. What’s next win a school lunch?! pic.twitter.com/jZCpJ9PHpP

— Scott Cuthbertson (@ScotCuthbertson) September 5, 2022

3.

What a time to be alive pic.twitter.com/RiR0nyFf5i

— Jono Read (@jonoread) September 5, 2022

4.

We are in Hell pic.twitter.com/MPKanRDhq6

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) September 5, 2022

5.

The bills are only being paid for FOUR MONTHS
And you have to enter by a Premium Phone Number.

The unmitigated gall of it. https://t.co/tJh1XaXjvB

— Carl Anka (@Ankaman616) September 5, 2022

6.

Sunlit uplands 🇬🇧 https://t.co/OYlxniOe2S

— Nadine Batchelor-Hunt (@nadinebh_) September 5, 2022

7.

God it’s all so fucking bleakpic.twitter.com/prURIGemBo

— Fancy Brenda 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (they/them) (@SpillerOfTea) September 5, 2022

8.

people are going to freeze to death this year because of energy crisis. turning it into light entertainment is beyond bleak. pic.twitter.com/xxrS90jgGG

— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) September 5, 2022

9.

Phillip Schofield’s This Morning takes a step into the dystopian future as ‘Energy Bills Paid’ appears on the wheel of fortune. Future programmes will feature ‘Kidney Transplant,’ ‘Chemotherapy’ and ‘Trolley Dash at Iceland.’pic.twitter.com/qh0gsI5bbN

— Ragged Trousered Philanderer (@RaggedTP) September 5, 2022

10.

It’s not even Black Mirror, it’s the fucking Running Man https://t.co/7XIbuHAW8n

— Mitch Benn 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@MitchBenn) September 5, 2022

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Philip Schofield:
“Be sure to tune in tomorrow, where the general public are hunted by bears for the chance to win a tub of Lurpak. pic.twitter.com/XL7g13nxmJ

— Guffers (@gavmacn) September 5, 2022

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'This Morning' in the UK offering a competition prize of paying for energy bills.

If that wasn't dystopian enough, the music in the background is…pic.twitter.com/Vgj9em2AP8

— Rob O'Hanrahan (@RobOHanrahan) September 5, 2022

Who knows where the trend could lead.

Looking forward to a month's time when Phil and Holly offer us plebs a chance to win some drinking water that hasn't got shit in it https://t.co/3l6aG6Q7a7

— Fuck off (@Get_effed) September 5, 2022

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