Let the ridicule pile high: social media destroy Boris Johnson over Downing Street flat redecoration
The Electoral Commission has announced that it is investigating the funding of redecoration work on Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat, saying it has “reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred”.
And our friends on the social media have gone into satire overdrive.
Today they have targeted the prime ministerial consort, Carrie Symonds, under the hashtag #CarrieAntoinette – on the grounds that she was the driving force behind the astonishingly-expensive changes.
So we see this:
Best hashtag this year >#CarrieAntoinette
"Let them eat our old wallpaper" pic.twitter.com/6eCvkoZOdG
— Marie-Ann Detests Tories 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 (@MarieAnnUK) April 28, 2021
And, indeed, this:
That awkward moment when you have to buy your girlfriend £800 rolls of wallpaper or she won't let you into these. #CarrieAntoinette #MajorSleaze #BorisOut #PMQs pic.twitter.com/QWthUHXoQN
— Marie-Ann Detests Tories 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 (@MarieAnnUK) April 28, 2021
The claim that Symonds demanded the use of wallpaper costing £840 per roll has been particularly inflammatory:
We have 4.3 million children living in poverty.
What kind of person thinks "let's spend £840 for a roll wallpaper" #CarrieAntoinette— Pickle-Lily 💙 (@manda_m0) April 28, 2021
https://twitter.com/MarcDavenant/status/1387677007409041409
Carrie Antoinette has almost as bad a taste in décor as she does in men. 🤮🤮 #CarrieAntoinette #MajorSleaze #BorisOut pic.twitter.com/Iok9rxFKuw
— Marie-Ann Detests Tories 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 (@MarieAnnUK) April 29, 2021
Anyone who votes Tory next week is endorsing #MajorSleaze and every single corrupt thing he's ever done.#ToryCorruption #BorisOut #CarrieAntoinette #TorySleaze pic.twitter.com/pCEwPjIvhg
— Richard Milne (@milneorchid) April 28, 2021
Many have pointed out the hypocrisy of being funded with huge amounts of cash to pay for the redecoration of a Tory prime minister’s flat, while the Tory government still refuses to fund safety improvements to blocks of flats afflicted with inflammable cladding that makes them as likely to go up in flames as Grenfell Tower (due to decisions by Tories, most likely):
Boris Johnson and #CarrieAntoinette should pay back every penny into a highly flammable cladding removal fund.
— Northern Independence Party 🟨🟥 (@FreeNorthNow) April 29, 2021
Amazing how quickly they can find money to refurbish a flat when it suits them. #CarrieAntoinette pic.twitter.com/cHpPY5m0Zk
— Malcolm V Tucker 🏴☠️🇺🇦 (@Tucker5law) April 28, 2021
But possibly the best snipe of the lot came from department store chain John Lewis:
#MajorSleaze and #CarrieAntoinette being trolled by John Lewis is a thing of beauty 😂 https://t.co/d0XQ2vML22
— The Rt Hon Lady Matildamog (@Jc62Matildamog) April 28, 2021
The image is of a John Lewis van outside the gates of Downing Street.
The way events are moving, in a few days we’ll be seeing a removal van there.
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I wonder what the cost of un-doing all this expensive redecoration will be and who will pay for it?
This guy says it all; taken from Richard Murphy’s Tax Reserch blog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp1FIbBEoWw
WTF 840 quid for a sodding roll of wallpaper that makes your eyes bleed it’s so bad! This according to Bozo is his right? Sod the children in poverty, Covid and the NHS and every other issue he has avoided taking charge of instead his flat is more important!
Tory corruption, nepotism and sleaze, cronyism all demonstrate beyond a doubt Torys can’t ever be trusted with government it just corrupts them!
If you vote Tory you are endorsing this BS! Never come and complain afterwards of voting for scum.