Be rude not to share this classic on a day like today ... The Day Today - Pound Stolen
@benjameslucas @AndyAitcheson I know nostalgia is always fun but I haven’t seen anything on TV in recebt years that even comes close to this.
@benjameslucas That's actually less stupid than what's just happened
@benjameslucas @Alistair1965 A work of pure genius from Chris Morris and Armando Ianucci. They'd never allow it today.
@benjameslucas My gf just overheard me listening to this clip and took it as a genuine news report. She heard the bit about the Queen's eggs and her brain has just exploded. Where do I start with the explanation?
@benjameslucas Here’s Collaterly Sisters with the business news.
@benjameslucas @IanDunt Whoops Apocalypse… The new prime minister reveals to the chancellor that he believes himself to be Superman
@benjameslucas @IanDunt I have no idea what I’ve just watched but it was hilarious 😂 😂
@benjameslucas @PeterOHanrahaH what have you done with the pound? Did you find it lying around? Was it a Kwasi currently not real at all? Was it a Cinderella had enough of the ball? Where's Liz Truss in all this fussy? Is she heading out of London on a big blue bus? Give the pound back to us!
@benjameslucas I'd forgotten this, an economy based on the Queen's eggs...🤣🤣🤣🤣
@benjameslucas I hope Malcom Rifkind has seen this….and had a bloody good laugh
@benjameslucas The writing... the delivery... I'm not sure there was ever a team that took satire to the toweringly absurd heights that Morris and Iannucci did. Absolute mastery!
@benjameslucas And next, the Exchange Rate Kidney…
@benjameslucas @The_IGR Classic. There should be The Day Today revival…..ah wait, there is. It’s called the news.
@benjameslucas The first topic when I studied Public Administration at College was the adoption of Proportional Representation. That was in 1980. I supported it then and I still do now. Many have supported it long before me. Now we have realistic optimism of it happening. Hurrah..!
@benjameslucas @_danilo Is this the actor who played Renholm in season 1 of The IT Crowd?
@benjameslucas Chris Morris & co were years ahead of their time. Makes the Mash report look pedestrian. Genius. Morris should be back on tv.
@benjameslucas It seems the current government have taken this as policy advice and not the staggeringly obvious satirical cautionary tale it was meant to be. So nothing new there then!
@benjameslucas I sort of understand that the value of the pound going down against the dollar is bad, but after a while all the discussion ends up sounding like this to me: youtube.com/watch?v=Q9_fBD…
@benjameslucas @ScotchCurran “After someone took it out to play with at lunch time…and forgot to put it back”
@benjameslucas Love watching old news clips like this. The parody stuff from back then was really good too.
@benjameslucas Worst thing about this is it's OUR pounds they've stolen! #torychaos #TrussOut
@benjameslucas I believe that if GBP hits zero the 84 year old little boy who dressed as a city gent & shouted ‘fuck the pound’ will finally be released.
@benjameslucas This is the neeeewwwws @kevinmulroue
@benjameslucas Where's the Tom Hardy looking field reporter?
@benjameslucas Montego exports will be through the roof with a weaker pound
@benjameslucas A white Montego , had anybody not forgotten the Montego 🤣
