Hilarity at the Tories’ expense as Labour MP calls for Boris Johnson to ‘FO’ from the FO
Boris Johnson [Image from The Canary].
That is the amount of time it took him to ask this question:
Mr Speaker, in the light of the Foreign Secretary’s display of chronic foot-in-mouth disease, when deciding on Cabinet positions, does the Prime Minister now regret that pencilling FO against his name should have been an instruction not a job offer.
That was enough to send the occupants of the green benches into prolonged hysterics. A discomfited Mrs May had to wait for an interruption by the Speaker, John Bercow, before the laughter abated and she could respond. She said:
I have to say that the Foreign Secretary is doing an absolutely excellent job. He is in short an FFS, a fine foreign secretary.
How nice. But those of us who are familiar with Internet slang also know what “FFS” actually means, and in context it seems Mrs May was ill-advised to use it when referring to Mr Johnson.
You see, when referring to a man who embarrassed the Conservative Government by referring to its Middle East ally Saudi Arabia as “puppeteering and playing proxy wars”, and who – as London Mayor – wasted more than £300,000 on water cannons that cannot be used, the original meaning of the abbreviation “FFS” certainly comes to mind.
Perhaps that is why Canary writer Carlyn Harvey penned the following:
There’s one clear ‘instruction’ we should all give the prime minister: FFS, can you please tell the foreign secretary to FO? For all our sakes.
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The Tories should be regarded as a black hole, as not a glimmer of light escapes them and no one in their right mind would approach them..
FO and FFS just about sums up the tory party in a nutshell, perhaps ffs applies to there policies where as fo should apply to all of them, i doubt very much if there would be support for them if they lost badly in a election (anyone), perhaps they could find a use for ids and co for xmas, sticking them on a german riot wagon with speakers and dressing them up for xmas sounds fun, hohoho look what we waisted loads of taxpayers money on, could even have a name the Boris Lederhosen clown troop, he reminds me of Homer Simpson!!!
I was watching and I loved this remark. Better than the one Milliband made about a Piss up in a brewery.
Didn’t watch PMQs, but couldn’t resist that bit, after reading this article.
She didn’t look pleased, did she!
Pity Corbyn didn’t add FFS, at the beginning of his “get a grip” statement!