Clive Lewis turned the first image of a black hole into a joke about the Downing Street team working on Brexit.
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Lewis used a story that was already commanding attention to make a point about political careers and trust being swallowed up by the Brexit process.
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ready to hit the ground from day one
During the Conservative leadership contest, Liz Truss posted that she was ready to hit the ground from day one. A corrected version added the missing word “running”.
Truss was posting after Penny Mordaunt had been eliminated and the contest had narrowed to Truss and Rishi Sunak. The typo was widely recalled after her short premiership.
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Image from Rochester
On polling day in Rochester and Strood, Emily Thornberry posted a photograph showing flags on a house and a white van outside.
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Critics interpreted the image as a comment on the people who lived there. Thornberry apologised and resigned as shadow attorney general that evening. The episode took place during a by-election in which UKIP was challenging the Conservatives for the seat.
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How can it be TEN YEARS… ?
Yvette Cooper replied to Ed Balls’s tenth-anniversary post asking how ten years had gone by.
The reply was part of a wider round of anniversary posts by politicians, journalists and other Twitter users. The original two-word tweet dates to April 2011.
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Ed Balls marked ten years since the original tweet with a photo of himself holding a cake, with a number ten candle added to the image.
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By 2021 Balls had become a participant in the annual joke about his own typo. PA reported that he had previously baked a cake styled after the original tweet.
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Ed Balls
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Ed Balls was trying to search Twitter for his own name on 28 April 2011. He put it in a tweet instead. The two-word post stayed online, and Twitter users began marking 28 April as Ed Balls Day.
Balls eventually joined the joke himself. In 2021 he marked the tenth anniversary with a photo of himself holding a cake, and Yvette Cooper replied to ask how ten years could have passed already. The later tweets tell the other half of the story: the politician who made the mistake became one of the people keeping the joke alive.
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