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Rishi Sunak said we should buy British food and of all the delicious comebacks, Jay Rayner said it best
Further doubling down on his attempt to make it the least inspiring election campaign in living memory, Rishi Sunak has been getting his Twitter out again.
And it’s just as profound and inspiring as you’d imagine it to be. If this doesn’t capture the electorate’s imagination then surely nothing will.
We shouldn’t be reliant on foreign food. Buy British.
— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) June 18, 2024
Well, we wouldn’t stick it on the side of a bus.
And it prompted all the mockery (and, more generally, a sense of bemused disbelief) that you’d expect it to.
What's going on here? What's the process? Does it just pop into his head? Or is there a note on the Downing Street whiteboard which says "DO BANAL FOOD TWEET JUST BEFORE MIDDAY ON TUESDAY"? https://t.co/KDd7ImcwAI
— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) June 18, 2024
BAN BANANAS NOW https://t.co/SOtSmC0RXO
— Rosie Holt (@RosieisaHolt) June 18, 2024
Everybody dunking on this like “but I like my imported food” (I agree) and nobody commenting on the fact he’s been fucking prime minister for 2 years and is busy tweeting like he’s some powerless boomer dad on Facebook. Where’s your policy to encourage this been, mate? https://t.co/WsWtnsd01o
— Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya) (@twlldun) June 18, 2024
Eat nowt to help out, then. https://t.co/2lBcWvrRov
— HENRY MORRIS (@mrhenrymorris) June 18, 2024
Sunak's big idea for pulling back the election https://t.co/H2Iu5MIfwT pic.twitter.com/0MMWEA5AnA
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 18, 2024
‘Foreign food’. They really want to take us back to the 1970s where olives are down a small aisle called ‘ethnic produce’ don’t they. Meanwhile they have destroyed UK agriculture. July 4th cannot come soon enough. https://t.co/9wVzMYySZB
— Brendan May (@bmay) June 18, 2024
This just in. The "party of business" wants everyone to give Tesco a swerve and descend upon a farmers market in Bury St Edmunds. https://t.co/SO6gnon03I
— Pete Paphides (@petepaphides) June 18, 2024
British rivers and seas where the British fish live are full of human shit, there’s e-coli in the supermarket food, foodbank use is at an all time high, what British food are you recommending we buy, exactly? https://t.co/pMiFbRuabD
— Sorcha Ní Nia (@Luiseach) June 18, 2024
Says the guy who only drinks Mexican coke https://t.co/eOpmx0q5WZ
— HappyToast★ (@IamHappyToast) June 18, 2024
Dig for victory! Put that light out! Mothers, send them out of London! https://t.co/IKyxJfvMJt
— John O'Farrell (@mrjohnofarrell) June 18, 2024
Who had "Reintroduce the Corn Laws" on their Tory manifesto bingo card? https://t.co/sIsU1p7Krf
— Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) June 18, 2024
I made this 3 years ago, it was supposed to be a joke. https://t.co/7TRetOsMbl pic.twitter.com/MkCjzAaqMT
— Phlegm Clandango (@Cain_Unable) June 18, 2024
But surely no-one put it better than TV presenter, food critic and all round good egg, Jay Rayner.
Where to bloody start? There isn't enough British food to buy because the crass, malformed, malignant clown-show of Brexit that you promoted, has undermined food production, courtesy of ill-thought out subsidies. Plus, brexit-driven border controls have stymied imports. https://t.co/OWFVKIy1kW
— Jay Rayner (@jayrayner1) June 18, 2024
Seconded.
Welcome to life behind the Gammon Curtain.
— CaptainSwing666 Rejoiner and proud of it. (@CaptainSwing666) June 18, 2024
And finally …
We're about three days away from him communicating only through gurgled moans. https://t.co/Qf8xlsgHD2
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) June 18, 2024
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