The Conservatives tweeted a motivational poster in Comic Sans – the 11 hottest burns
The Conservative Twitter account has been very busy recently, tweeting every different way of saying “Get Brexit done” that they can think of; the trouble with that is that they’re not very good at it. For example, how motivational do you consider an animation that looks like it was made on a ZX Spectrum?
Come together.
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Back the new deal.
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Get Brexit done.
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Move on as a country.Let’s #GetBrexitDone. pic.twitter.com/6S2lDrmnd6
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) October 22, 2019
One tweet that got a lot of attention, if not the kind they would have liked, was this:
Now is the time for MPs to back the new deal and get Brexit done.#GetBrexitDone pic.twitter.com/JuqaOVdlMC
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) October 22, 2019
Their choice of the universally reviled Comic Sans caused a torrent of burns.
1.
Look, I opposed the govt before. But I will die in a ditch if it's a war against comic sans, you unspeakable vandal bastards. https://t.co/ezRZhZhYQA
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) October 22, 2019
2.
BREAKING: Government activates Yellowhammer contingency planning on own graphic design team. https://t.co/Q3wnS4ngzX
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) October 22, 2019
3.
Honestly not sure which is worse, the sentiment or the font… https://t.co/PhnUzhR7EP
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 22, 2019
4.
were all the good fonts European? https://t.co/qrR6tLl9xN
— Neil Slorance (@neilslorance) October 22, 2019
5.
Our country is being run by people who think Comic Sans is an acceptable font. https://t.co/9tv4U9CEZX
— Robert Borthwick (@RFBorthwick) October 22, 2019
6.
Are really going to give back control to a government that can't be left alone to pick a font
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) October 22, 2019
7.
Comic Sans.
Comic fucking Sans.“I thought Brexit was a tragedy but then I learned it was a comedy.”
Can't wait for the next one written in Papyrus https://t.co/N3ph1oKLSi
— Tim Soret (@timsoret) October 22, 2019
8.
To prepare people for what it will be like after we set the country back several decades, we are doing all Tory communications in Comic Sans. https://t.co/kRyn0MzNJG
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) October 22, 2019
9.
comic sans? these man are some trolls https://t.co/NAYKSfurhW
— Ad 🇯🇲 (@KRUZAA_) October 22, 2019
10.
Lads this is brexit, not a poster board in primary one https://t.co/15VU8AQ8RX
— Not Courtney🎃 (@theboisofsummer) October 22, 2019
11.
Saw "Comic Sans" was trending and never in a million years would have guessed that it would turn out to be this hilarious. https://t.co/41YpLs0J6C
— JaackMaate (@Jaack) October 22, 2019
Even the BBC’s Newsnight mildly trolled them, with this change of look …
Political sketch writer Tom Peck believed the choice was due to strategy rather than poor taste.
This new strategy of being deliberately crap so everyone notices you explains so, so, so much of what is going on in the Conservative Party. https://t.co/auitGIEL4d
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) October 22, 2019
And for how many decades has this been going on?
Source: Twitter Image: @Conservatives, Twitter screengrab, @bertsz on Unsplash