Chris Addison had the best response to Gillian Keegan’s unfortunate 4-letter foul-up
You’ll no doubt already have seen education secretary Gillian Keegan’s unfortunate 4-letter foul-up following her ITV interview about the crumbling schools crisis.
Education secretary Gillian Keegan is recorded on camera saying others ‘have been sat on their a***s’ on schools Raac crisis and shares frustration about not being thanked for doing ‘a f***ing good job’https://t.co/c02gI4dXiM pic.twitter.com/jWbYTVZl5D
— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) September 4, 2023
How was she to know there was a camera and a microphone – and a journalist – in the room? Give her a break, someone!
We’ve rounded up 27 of our favourite reactions here, including this.
Gillian Keegan focusing on the important stuff: her own grievances & grandiosity. https://t.co/ZMJdvP5hGG
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) September 4, 2023
And this.
https://twitter.com/simonharris_mbd/status/1698684837001822344?s=20
But surely the best response went to comedian, writer, actor and director Chris Addison, who said this.
Boy, have I got a show *you* should watch, Gillian. Think of it as a kind of series of training videos. https://t.co/AJbMCYVxHR
— @[email protected] (@mrchrisaddison) September 4, 2023
Boom. And he wasn’t the only person thinking it for reasons that will already be obvious.
I know everything gets compared to The Thick of It these days but I’m desperate to know how she would deal with crumbly concrete pic.twitter.com/FjHKH6jX9E
— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) September 4, 2023
A proper The Thick of It moment — even the camerawork https://t.co/wlqmzUTyHM
— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) September 4, 2023
People are comparing the Tory government to The Thick of It but that’s an insult to The Thick of It, because under this Tory regime, to quote Glenn "the worst thing is, there's no humour in the cruelty"
— Supertanskiii (@supertanskiii) September 4, 2023
https://t.co/SmQ0TqaIVv pic.twitter.com/GxnZ7wYjBX
— Edward Mayes (@eljmayes) September 4, 2023
Gillian Keegan reminds me of Nicola Murray from The Thick Of It pic.twitter.com/DwQng5dyQt
— Georgina (@gs_mick) September 4, 2023
— out of context the thick of it (@OOCThickOfIt) September 4, 2023
When I said she was straight out of The Thick Of It… https://t.co/GwtTQ5Sorv
— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) September 4, 2023
And finally …
it's @OOCThickOfIt world we're just living in it pic.twitter.com/KB8HrYHDtb
— Henry Dyer (@Direthoughts) September 4, 2023
Source Twitter @mrchrisaddison