(It’s not satire – it’s our MPs!)
Try not to laugh but Tory MPs seem to be desperately trawling their twitter archives looking for any previous tweets they’ve made praising the UK’s AAA status to delete – now their blundering chancellor has gone and lost it.
For example, yesterday, Daniel Byles, Tory MP for North Warwickshire and Karl McCartney, Tory MP for Lincoln both deleted this tweet they made over a year ago:
UK is now the largest country in the world with a “AAA” credit rating and a stable outlook. < Thanks to the Coalition govt.
Blimey. It must have taken them hours to go back that far in the Twitter archives to find a tweet – just so they could delete it and pretend they never said it.
You’d think MPs would have something better to do with their time, wouldn’t you?
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superfurryandy said:
Byles just tweeted me denying it, like I’d believe a Tory…
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Tom Pride said:
Yes – he’s been tweeting me too. He seems to be pretty upset by this article.
He retweeted a tweet which was most probably deleted when the original was deleted.
But as his colleague Lord McAlpine has so righteously pointed out – retweets are the same as tweets!
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Paul Smyth said:
Reblogged this on The Greater Fool.
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Frank said:
It’s all here… http://bit.ly/Xad6KN
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guy fawkes said:
according to the daily politics we are now a AA1 what next a 007 send in Bond, I forgot the Bond market is already in there with a forecasted interest rate of 0 and the banks being allowed to start lending again.
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