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Greg Evans
Sep 06, 2019
We all thought that we had seen it all when the Tories tweeted a meme of Jeremy Corbyn dressed as a chicken but it would appear that the UK's governing party had another trick up their sleeves.
The Tories have actually produced a bucket of chicken (or what they are trying to pass off as chicken, anyway) with a JFC logo on it plus Corbyn's face as well as the slogan 'totally spineless chicken' and are sending it to journalists across London.
This completely bizarre stunt was soon all over social media, and needless to say people were not impressed with the Tories attempt to try and goad Corbyn into backing a general election.
Just delivered to the lobby by someone in a chicken costume...a follow up to the Corbyn Fried Chicken ad. https://t.co/weImHrWRvw— Tony Diver (@Tony Diver) 1567778077
the Tory press office has just delivered actual chicken breasts to lobby journalists in a somewhat peculiar move ev… https://t.co/a5HTexMi3h— Jim Pickard (@Jim Pickard) 1567778345
Donald Tusk: "Don't waste this time." https://t.co/rimBoV1L15— Alan White (@Alan White) 1567778701
https://t.co/i2MMMcXzMA https://t.co/EEPndkjUnO— Mollie Goodfellow (@Mollie Goodfellow) 1567778687
I just cannot get over how stupid this is. All week, all Johnson has said is, “I don’t want an election, the public… https://t.co/Jol1vL4zi2— Tom Peck (@Tom Peck) 1567780110
Tories lose plot completely. KFC is a restaurant that serves chicken, not a chicken. Now, if they said Corbyn was a… https://t.co/N19JAFrx8V— Simon Bisson (@Simon Bisson) 1567780302
There is also a chance that 'JFC' could be misunderstood as something else...
How do we stop knife crime? Fried Chicken. How do we mock Jeremy Corbyn? Fried Chicken. https://t.co/kl9LWa6Yd0— Sammy James (@Sammy James) 1567775883
In summary, the public school wags at Tory HQ think KFC is a chicken The colonel is himself a chicken Corbyn is a… https://t.co/KvbSgnULbW— The author, Séamas O'Reilly (@The author, Séamas O'Reilly) 1567780109
Even MPs can't see the funny side.
This is hardly the first time that the government has used fried chicken to promote an agenda...
why does this government think that branding fried chicken is the answer to every problem https://t.co/VPGAZTPtYG— Eleanor Penny (@Eleanor Penny) 1567779472
How do we stop knife crime? Fried Chicken. How do we mock Jeremy Corbyn? Fried Chicken. https://t.co/kl9LWa6Yd0— Sammy James (@Sammy James) 1567775883
The real question is if the Jeremy Corbyn fried chicken comes with patronising advertising about knife crime.— Patrick W. Reed (@Patrick W. Reed) 1567780291
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