Richard Osman predicted Rishi Sunak’s latest election tweet wouldn’t end well and he was right – 17 favourite comebacks

Rishi Sunak’s election campaign started catastrophically and just got worse, and now appears to consist almost entirely of tweets most kindly described as bizarre, less kindly as utterly inane.

And this one on Tuesday, with just two days to go to polling day, hit new heights.

Once you make that decision on Thursday, there’s no going back.

Don’t do something you might regret.

— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) July 2, 2024

It caught the eye of Pointless guy turned gazillion selling author and cultural phenomenon, Richard Osman, who suggested it probably wasn’t going to end well for the beleaguered PM.

This is going to break the world ‘quote tweet’ record. https://t.co/x0RA56GOJE

— Richard Osman (@richardosman) July 2, 2024

And he was right.

1.

Now he’s moved on to a bloke pleading with the wife not to take the kids https://t.co/HQlyoxQkhN

— Mooms – The Euros Interesteder (@Danny_McMoomins) July 2, 2024

2.

“If you walk out that door, Sandra, don’t come crawling back to me with your tail between your legs” https://t.co/wNzcgVwksy

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) July 2, 2024

3.

same energy https://t.co/89AUzQ0ynS pic.twitter.com/QpnRfbUqUM

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) July 2, 2024

4.

this is peak “things a supervillain yells seconds before one of the minions he betrayed in Act 2 shoves him into a vat of acid” https://t.co/6nS7DfI4mX

— Jack Bernhardt (@jackbern23) July 2, 2024

5.

Shouting through the letterbox as his clothes are thrown from the upstairs bedroom window. https://t.co/MATA9Ox0LG

— Andrew Mueller (@andrew_mueller) July 2, 2024

6.

A Prime Minister so weak, so defeated, so utterly bereft of substance, that he’s reduced to spouting naff soap opera dialogue like some tearful diva in EastEnders, mascara running down her cheeks, howling ‘You walk out that door now and our marriage is over!’ Tune in on Friday. https://t.co/j5p6ntCpUw

— Nicholas Pegg (@NicholasPegg) July 2, 2024

7.

https://t.co/aFAU60q6sM pic.twitter.com/8a8LP4nHdM

— Daniel Krynoid (@DChilv) July 2, 2024

8.

This is a very weird framing for an election. The entire point of democracy is that voters can and do regularly decide to change government. There is always “going back.” It’s just that voters have clearly decided that 14 years was certainly long enough for this failed government https://t.co/bFq3knqIxN

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) July 2, 2024

9.

How the fuck does he know I’m doing an all-dayer with my wrongun mates? https://t.co/6mlF4Toyli

— Geoff Norcott (@GeoffNorcott) July 2, 2024