Esther McVey’s plan to ban rainbow lanyards in the Civil Service might not be the vote-winner she thinks
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As PM warns of threats from "axis of authoritarian powers" Russia, Iran, North Korea and China and warns of "dangerous, transformational years…more will change in the next 5 years than in the last 30", Cabinet Office Minister McVey bans rainbow lanyards in the civil service. pic.twitter.com/rrRyrfZVjL
— Paul Lewis (@paullewismoney) May 13, 2024
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what is wrong with the UK is rainbow lanyards. If you ban these, the trains will run, the fields will be full of bees, children will have enough to eat and joy will reign
— Alison K. Montijn☕ (@alisonkatebr) May 13, 2024
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There’s a constant war going on inside my head about which Tory MP is the stupidest of them all, a battle which is never definitively won as the contenders are so numerous; but finally I think I may have settled on a winner.
This really is exceptional.pic.twitter.com/q6QLOn8a5I
— Brendan May (@bmay) May 13, 2024
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A government minister worrying about the colour of lanyards makes the cone hotline look like the stuff of Olympian ambition and big picture politics. https://t.co/44Fu4PQFEP
— Graham Smith ️ (@GrahamSmith_) May 13, 2024
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I'll tell you what would be 'common sense', it would be 'common sense' to think about addressing the myriad crises facing the country – housing, homelessness, justice, poverty, public transport, sewage in rivers, local government, the NHS.
But no, lets focus on lanyards shall we
— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) May 13, 2024
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Imagine being frightened by a rainbow….
This is not a serious government if they have appointed a minister to be hall monitor. https://t.co/VKfcSwOmkl
— stellacreasy (@stellacreasy) May 13, 2024
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We now live in a country where a serving Member of Parliament has been given an entirely made up ministerial role to spend time & money giving speeches on banning certain colours of lanyards
Just. Think. About. That https://t.co/4d5jSoRgXO
— David (@Zero_4) May 14, 2024
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New #Lanyards available for Ministry of Nonsense staff pic.twitter.com/gqkHehTaBk
— Trumpton (@Trump_ton) May 14, 2024
David Osland summed up her priorities.
If only Esther McVey was as angry about hungry schoolchildren as she is about rainbow lanyards
— David__Osland (@David__Osland) May 13, 2024
The Conservative Chair of the London Assembly, Andrew Boff, demonstrated that the Government may not have found the magic formula to unite the party just yet.
Hi Esther. You can take my lanyard from my cold dead neck. pic.twitter.com/QiPmbdimPZ
— Andrew Boff (@AndrewBoff) May 13, 2024
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