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Rishi Sunak said criminals should be shown no mercy and it was a scorching own goal – 17 funniest and totally on-point responses
Rishi Sunak emerged from 48 hours or so of hiding after his early D-Day exit to unveil his party’s big new election campaign idea.
And it didn’t so much reset Sunak’s beleaguered campaign as simply reinforce everything that’s gone before it.
If you’re a criminal, the law should show you no mercy.
— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) June 10, 2024
Well, actually, a little bit of understanding and compassion might actually help many criminals from reoffending, but anyway.
We mention it because it prompted no end of very funny and totally on-point comebacks. And these people surely said it best.
1.
You might want to sit down for this one Rishi, but you are – quite literally – letting criminals walk out of prison early. https://t.co/5RjBKQst8O
— Joanna Hardy-Susskind (@Joanna__Hardy) June 10, 2024
2.
Let’s start with fraudsters, liars, charlatans, sex pests and thieves?
Where shall we look?Also there’s a list of PPE VIP Lane beneficiaries who must be waiting for the knock on the door
once Rachel Reeves becomes Chancellor and
appoints her COVID CORRUPTION COMMISSIONER— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) June 10, 2024
3.
(Terms and conditions apply.) https://t.co/yrGHhhI9D0
— Robert Hutton (@RobDotHutton) June 10, 2024
4.
What about if you defraud the UK for vast amounts of £££… but the Chancellor of the day shrugs it off?
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) June 10, 2024
5.
Says the man fined for breaking the law twice. https://t.co/uXJJy5qVj2
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) June 10, 2024
6.
Rishi reduced to writing strap lines for a new vigilante movie https://t.co/iGNZsHMmQ2
— John O’Farrell (@mrjohnofarrell) June 10, 2024
7.
If you’re a criminal, @RishiSunak and his pals have made it as easy as possible for you by slashing police numbers, cutting prosecutors, selling off courts, creating record backlogs, forcing victims to wait *years* for a trial and making the prisons too full to take any more. https://t.co/rrJUwDxETd
— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) June 10, 2024
8.
If you’re a “petty” criminal, under the Tories the law will show you no mercy. If you’re a Tory donor or crony, we’ll give you a peerage. https://t.co/Gu3Kpwdyos
— alexandra hall hall (@alexhallhall) June 10, 2024
9.
Ah, posh Alf Garnett’s re-emerged. You are beyond ridiculous. https://t.co/eAwkN7t44y
— Brendan May (@bmay) June 10, 2024