The Tory party have updated their infamous countdown clock which counted down the days until ‘we will have delivered Brexit and left the EU’ on October 31.
Blaming Labour, Lib Dems and SNP sure sounds like an If and a But to me
— (@OfSelina) November 4, 2019
This is slightly more accurate pic.twitter.com/5z47tpJl7t
The countdown clock, which cost more than £500, now counts up – apparently recording the “time since we should have left the EU if Labour, Lib Dems and the SNP hadn’t blocked Brexit”.
Since images of the new clock have emerged from inside CCHQ, the Tories have been facing a massive backlash online, with social media posts calling the clock “embarrassing”, “passive aggressive”, and showing that “no-one at Conservative Party HQ knows how to reset the clock.”
Many Twitter accounts were also quick to point out that it was Boris Johnson who ‘blocked Brexit’ by voting against the first Brexit deal.
The updated clock was first posted online by the Conservative MP for West Worcestershire Harriet Baldwin.
New clock at Tory HQ. Haven't seen anything this passive aggressive since the last time I opened the communal fridge in my student house pic.twitter.com/dylDU05q7X
— Georgina Lee (@lee_georgina) November 4, 2019
Other Twitter users made jokes about Tory MPs like James Cleverly who posed with the clock when it was first revealed in August this year.
One parody MP account said: “[James] Cleverly assures me the clock can be modified to four digits when we reach summer 2022.”
Another person added: “I’d suggest a new countdown clock for them – measured in decades – denoting the years by which they should have left the 19th century behind.”
One account ‘corrected’ the sign above the clock, photoshopping it to say: “Days since Boris broke his ‘no ifs, no buts, do or die promise on Brexit’.”
What this tells us is that no-one at Conservative Party HQ knows how to reset the clock. https://t.co/1FTbLhuXI9
— Simon (@SimonXIX) November 4, 2019
We have pulled together some of the best responses to the announced sign.
The new countdown clock counting down to when the Tory Party disappears in a puff of lies and failed far-right populist strategies pic.twitter.com/jsfia1B2Xh
— Randall McMurphy #GTFTO #StopBrexitVoteLabour (@respeak_uk) November 4, 2019
Odd that they missed off the PM who blocked Brexit by voting against the 1st Brexit deal. Still it's green week at work so it's good to see they're reusing that clock. Maybe it'll show days since having a majority after the election? #DitchBrexit #DitchJohnson https://t.co/f65OHD8lZC
— James Taylor ?' (@jtonline) November 4, 2019
9/10. Gammon-o-clock #Brexit #Gammon https://t.co/dPvpL91PvR
— Rate My Gammon (@GammonTastic) November 4, 2019
— christhebarker (@christhebarker) November 4, 2019
Fixed for the @Conservatives pic.twitter.com/i3QmTabOlp
— iRoy. (There's somebody wrong on the internet.) (@Roy_Isserlis) November 4, 2019
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