Tories dubbed ’embarrassing’ for David Beckham meme making enjoyable of Keir Starmer
The Conservative Party has been roundly ridiculed for utilizing a David Beckham meme to take a swipe at Sir Keir Starmer.
A clip from an episode of Golden Balls’ current Netflix docu-series ‘Beckham’, through which David referred to as out spouse Victoria for claiming she had a working class upbringing regardless of being pushed to high school in a Rolls-Royce, went viral a number of months in the past and the Tories thought they’d use it to appropriate one of many Labour chief’s fibs.
During an look on Thursday’s ITV Tonight, Sir Keir claimed he by no means needed predecessor Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister, however the Conservative Party’s X admin revealed he mentioned the alternative forward of the 2019 General Election, utilizing frames from the Netflix present, with Starmer taking part in the position of Victoria.
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Accurate although their assertion could have been, the meme did not sit significantly properly with social media customers, a lot of whom branded the publish “embarrassing”.
“What a pathetic attempt at humour,” one particular person raged. A second joked: “Your pick of work experience kid to run this account is super embarrassing,” whereas a 3rd mentioned: “This the terrible. Elizabeth Warren Meme Team 2.0. Tories are in the mud.”
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It is not the primary time the Tories have dabbled in football-themed social media posts. In November they introduced Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s cupboard reshuffle as if it have been soccer switch information, and even took a web page out of switch journalist Fabrizio Romano’s guide by beginning the publish together with his well-known slogan: “Here wo go!”.
In response, followers joked the celebration was working “a parody account” with many lambasting them for showing to deal with politics “like a game”.
