Inspired by the popular new @PoliticsMoments, here are some more ‘Insane Moments in British Politics’ 🧵
Enoch Powell yells racial slurs at a Romanian Family from a Pogo Stick (1961)
Enoch Powell yells racial slurs at a Romanian Family from a Pogo Stick (1961)
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott punches a protestor in the face for calling his son ‘gay’ and ‘the type of person who likes to wear woman’s clothes’, while yelling ‘you better f*cking take that back’ (2001)
MP Lloyd Russell Moyle steals the mace in the House of Commons and gives an impromptu two hour lecture to the House about the difficulties of living as a gay man with HIV. MPs initially stay out of respect but as the talk drags on many discreetly leave (2018)
Rishi Sunak tells two school pupils that he is 5’5 before quickly clarifying that he meant 5’7 (2021)
Theresa May is handed a document containing the names of politicians involved in a Westminster Child Sex Trafficking ring at the Conservative Party Conference (2017)
Defence Secretary Gavin Willamson describes Russia as ‘a backwards asiatic sh*thole’ that ‘we could easily nuke and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference’ in response to the Salisbury nerve agent attack (2018)
Jeremy Corbyn arrives at the Labour Party Conference (2018)
During a photo op with The Beatles Prime Minister Harold Wilson tells John Lennon he is a ‘layabout’, a ‘preening Scouser simpleton’ and to ‘get your damned Feni*n gurn out of my face’. Lennon had been standing too close to him and breathing on him during the shoot (1964)
Theresa May is photographed stroking President Trump’s thigh (2018)
Just after polls closed in the EU Referendum, Nigel Farage tells reporters to ‘trust the plan’ and that though ‘there may be a few too many chaps with exotic-sounding names involved in this thing at the upper levels for my liking’ he was ‘pretty sure we’ll pull this off’ (2016)
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