Update from the house of Plague (Day Fnarg Year 3) 25th of January
Birthday celebration for PM sparks new party row
I have gathered a selection of commentary from Twitter, because that is what Twitter is for. And at this point the whole thing is just a farce. :)
My son couldn't have a primary school leaving party with his bubble of classmates, Nadine, and he's literally a child. He was bummed out, but stoic because he saw it as for the greater good. Literally a child.
— Gee Aitch Cee (@Scriblit) January 24, 2022
KGB OFFICER: Our new plan is to send Mr Johnson a cake
— Alex Chan (@alexwlchan) January 25, 2022
PUTIN: A poisoned cake?
KO: No, a birthday cake
PUTIN: A poisoned birthday cake?
KO: No, just a regular birthday cake. Maybe with frosting.
PUTIN: Poisoned frosting?
KO: No, really just a regular cake.
PUTIN: I don’t get it.
— Chris McLean (@chrismc_pc) January 24, 2022
Tories:
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) January 24, 2022
“It was on his birthday, there was birthday cake, snacks, people sang ‘happy birthday’ but let’s wait until Sue Gray’s report to find out if it was a birthday party”
Boris Johnson’s aide, Rafe Hubris BA (oxon), phoning the Prime Minister RE: His birthday party in lockdown. pic.twitter.com/xerC3nWxj0
— Josh ‘On Tour Link in Bio’ Berry (@JoshBerryComedy) January 24, 2022
“When I saw the Colin the Caterpillar cake held by my wife and our interior designer I believed implicitly that this was a work event.” https://t.co/mIrlNqv7Gm
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 24, 2022
Downing Street Cluedo.
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) January 24, 2022
Anyone else have Carrie in the Cabinet Room with the birthday cake?
Led by Donkeys have a whole sketch, it's rather neatly edited!
“Those were meetings of people at work…”
— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 24, 2022
“Mother of God, you must think we were born yesterday fella.”
pic.twitter.com/AOl2D4f0Bc
ETA:
If Rishi's meteoric rise gets done in because he had a slice of Colin the Caterpillar I will laugh my arse off.
— John Bull (@garius) January 25, 2022
(there's a whole thread, pop along to Twitter to see it.)
Anyway, was also reminded of this gem:
Although in this case it's more 'Cake AND death'. Hm. *tilts head*
(For whatever reason this post won't crosspost, so here goes the manual version.)