Rishi Sunak tried to ‘innovate’ with a QR code on Twitter and got all the ridicule he deserved – 17 favourite takedowns
Never let it be said that prime minister Rishi Sunak isn’t down with the kids.
Just to prove how much he knows and cares about innovation – because Brexit Britain is at the cutting edge of all things innovative, right? – he, er, shared a QR code on Twitter.
Innovation means growth📱 pic.twitter.com/eFuXUMdc9O
— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) March 6, 2023
And you don’t have to be a Year 7 student to point out his unfortunate schoolboy error – we reckon a Year 5 or 6 student could tell him.
But just in case he didn’t have any of those available, there were plenty of people on Twitter only too happy to put him right. And deliver exactly the amount of ridicule he deserved.
1.
Could you fax this over to me so I can scan it on my phone?
— Moose Allain Ꙭ (@MooseAllain) March 6, 2023
2.
How exactly is it ‘innovation’ when I now have to go and get my wife’s phone and then point it at my own one to see where this QR code leads to? You lot really couldn’t organise a sausage roll in a Greggs.
— Simon Harris – Man Behaving Dadly (THAT’S DADLY) (@simonharris_mbd) March 6, 2023
3.
I scanned this at the self checkout in sainsburys and now I owe twenty seven pounds eighty two pence for shallots who at the Treasury do I contact about it
— mutable joe (@mutablejoe) March 6, 2023
4.
https://twitter.com/MrMichaelSpicer/status/1632727698425491457?s=20
5.
Innovation means growth📱 pic.twitter.com/qzqcOi8MPH
— Larry & Paul (@larryandpaul) March 6, 2023
6.
Been staring at this magic eye picture for hours. Nothing. https://t.co/a4GbMefpGk
— HENRY MORRIS (@mrhenrymorris) March 6, 2023
7.
Unlike everyone mocking this because they can't scan it on their phone, I actually bothered to open it on desktop. Whereupon it couldn't open it and gave me a link I had to cut and paste into my browser. https://t.co/CZ7irMunPz
— Alan White (@aljwhite) March 6, 2023
8.
QR code. Invented in 1994. In Japan.
— Damien Slash (@damienslash) March 6, 2023
9.
INT. DAY. 10 Downing St.
“Yes, I get it, but how will people SCAN it if they’re already USING their phone just to see it on Twitter?”
“They could print it out and THEN scan it?”
“That doesn’t exactly scream ‘innovation’.”
“The paper was created in an innovative paper mill?”
— NewsThump (@newsthump) March 6, 2023