Somebody must have promised Wes Streeting a tenner for every nautical metaphor, and he ended up all at sea
With hours of airtime to fill before the first verified results would come through, all the election results programmes drafted in political talking heads to discuss campaigns, potential plans and the exit polls.
Wes Streeting spoke to the BBC about why Labour was making gains. Prepare to hear the word ‘ship’ a lot.
prepare for the longest nautical metaphor you’ll hear today pic.twitter.com/GMb7LwqgyF
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) July 4, 2024
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Wes Streeting just took the shipshape metaphor, used every single iteration of it, nearly capsized twice, but managed to right it and sailed off into soundbite heaven #Elections2024
— hoskas (@hoskas) July 4, 2024
These reactions went swimmingly.
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Don’t like Streeting but I stood up and applauded the pure Partridgeism of this https://t.co/rZU93lES0k
— Luke (@LukeWhosTalking) July 4, 2024
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"Stop"
"Stop saying ship"
"Stop this"
"STOPPPP!!" pic.twitter.com/YlLmDrVTsU
— Dougal D'Arcy (@MrDarcyDog) July 4, 2024
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Wes Streeting going for a world record attempt for the number of times a person can say "ship" in an increasingly confused extended metaphor.
"The ship is ship shape, with the vessel having been pulled back from the ship wreck to be ship shape…"— Chris Kehoe (@MrKehoe79) July 4, 2024
5.
Wes Streeting with his own version of “I’m not the pheasant plucker; I’m the pheasant plucker’s son” tongue twister. He comes squeakily close to swearing live on BBC. https://t.co/ikY4zIm68w
— Fritha Malcouronne. (@NomadicWriter) July 4, 2024
6.
Nearly sunk absorbing all that
— Bennon Maina (@BennonMaina) July 4, 2024
7.
He successfully steered that metaphor straight into an iceberg
— Sam West (@wj_sam) July 4, 2024
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Shipshapeship steer the ship of the sails in tiptopshipshopeshape
— Zashy (@Zashy120) July 4, 2024
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Anyone who just heard Wes Streeting ship-ship-shaping his way through that tortured analogy will, I suspect, have had a fit of laughter like I just did
— Chaminda Jayanetti (@cjayanetti) July 4, 2024
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(hrmmm, saying that too often now) pic.twitter.com/Db0BvNhHmG
— Joe Shanahan (@JoeShanahan) July 4, 2024
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pic.twitter.com/qhgoHBz6Pa
— S4Blade (@S4Blade) July 4, 2024
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Giving 2024 English Language Paper 2 vibes #teamenglish https://t.co/fBis3WGsFw
— Melissa P (@maepoulson) July 5, 2024
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If this had happened at 4am I’d have thought I was hallucinating https://t.co/ARzEVjmQRf
— Nollaig McEvilly (@Dr_McEvil) July 4, 2024
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, he came back with another one.
Sailing close to the wind. https://t.co/bN001xMA4U
— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) July 4, 2024
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