‘Frank Spencer tribute act’ Williamson gets jingoistic about Covid vaccine. Should Michael Crawford sue?
. Spencer Williamson
After cocking up his own brief on breakfast TV, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson went on to display his ignorance on the radio.
Talking with LBC’s Nick Ferrari (who once crossed swords with This Writer, and I wonder if he regrets it), Williamson was asked about the Covid vaccine and decided to play the race racist card:
This is the moment Gavin Williamson told @NickFerrariLBC the UK was the first to approve a vaccine because “we’re a much better country”pic.twitter.com/1PtkOJ1CeB
— Rachael Venables (@rachaelvenables) December 3, 2020
For clarity: the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was developed by a US/German company using mainly Turkish scientists. It was approved using EU rules, which means all the countries Williamson mentioned had some involvement (if only minor).
And on a day when a man named Adolf Hitler was trending on Twitter after he won an election (in Namibia), the public ensured that Williamson was right up there with him – as inept TV comedy icon Frank Spencer.
(It seems they find his accent amusing.)
See:
Gavin Williamson stars in the most embarrassingly jingoistic and xenophobic comedy sketch since Basil Fawlty’s ‘Don’t Mention the War’
Except it’s not a sketch
He’s an actual *Secretary of State*with all the competence of Frank Spencer https://t.co/UnbSFQqEqY
— Bruce McD (@brucemcd23) December 3, 2020
I thought listening to George Useless for 20 seconds was bad enough, but I can't stomach 'Frank Spencer' Gavin Williamson for more than 10. At least with @AlokSharma_RDG you go to sleep straight away.
— Matthew Payne (@Matthew82069336) December 3, 2020
Gavin Williamson announcing to the world in his ridiculous Frank Spencer voice something akin to Jack's declaration in The Lord of the Flies that "we're English, and the English are best at everything." 🤦♂️
Have we reached peak gammon yet?
— Graham David Hughes (@EveryCountry) December 3, 2020
I can only see Frank Spencer pic.twitter.com/yso7s3mXcX
— TheGothamCheese (@CheeseGotham) December 3, 2020
Really, all he has done is divert attention away from the terrifying fact:
This latest tory jingoism being spouted by Hancock/Rees-Mogg/Fabricant and now Frank Spencer tribute act Gavin Williamson against the EU is designed to make the UK look tough, in reality it's now a sad little island, totally isolated, about to lose access to our largest market.
— Loz Argyle (@ArgyleLoz) December 3, 2020
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