This joke was made a lot funnier by people who just didn’t get it
It started as a perfectly decent gag featuring the ‘big name’ departures from the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.
BREAKING NEWS: the full list of big name resignations from the labour party has just been leaked. this could well be the end for jeremy corbyn pic.twitter.com/0JLwD7CcV7
— Michael Deacon is a bellend (@demarionunn) March 19, 2018
But it ascended to a whole new level thanks to people who appeared not to get it.
Great, glad to see the back of these Blair puppets. As for quality of personnel, the Momentum youngsters wiped the floor with the Blairites and Tories with new social media tools – they are the future, not these snakes in the grass.
— Christopher Rogers (@ChrisDaleRogers) March 19, 2018
these names are the heart and soul of the PLP, they will find it difficult to function without them imo
— Michael Deacon is a bellend (@demarionunn) March 19, 2018
If you want a right wing party go and join one, labour needs to be left wing , that's what's its for.
— S̷̡̕m҉͢͟҉a̸̡̛̕͡s̀͝h̀͡҉e̵͘͘͞͝d͏͠ ̀Pastryarch (@amias) March 20, 2018
Sernandez, right wing? Don't make me laugh
— Michael Deacon is a bellend (@demarionunn) March 20, 2018
Not exactly household names.
— John Lowe (@JohnLowe56) March 20, 2018
Are you kidding, my household is always ablaze with discussion about Dean Wesrey's policy ideas or about Jeromy Gride's newest tabloid scandal
— Jozef (@Jpb130) March 20, 2018
Are these the faceless directionless lot that were leading Labour into insignificance 5-10 years ago?
— ☆ Pete's Sake ☆ #DFS #CSL #MFI (@RedPed75) March 20, 2018
If Mike Truk had been advising the leader we would be in power already
— Michael Deacon is a bellend (@demarionunn) March 20, 2018
Or maybe they did get it and they were playing along to comic effect (in which case, bravo). Hard to tell, innit?
Oh dear, never mind, moving on. 14 resigned when McNicol took over. Big deal. They won't be missed.
— Gordon Liddle (@SUTONGIROTCIP) March 19, 2018
sleve mcdichel is labour through and through. sad to see the day that people celebrate him leaving
— Michael Deacon is a bellend (@demarionunn) March 19, 2018
Good riddance. Maybe finally Corbyn can purge the labour party now
— The Great ビダク (@dirtycommo) March 19, 2018
what are you on about? there is no labour party without mike truk
— Michael Deacon is a bellend (@demarionunn) March 19, 2018
Not like it's organised or something. Are well, all well that ends well, onward and upward. Far more together now so lets fill those rolls with people who share the vision and really want to help the many not the few.
— Edna's Son (@DelicateDave) March 20, 2018
Dustice, Sweemey, McDichael, Sernandez – to lose the original Gang of Four in one blow is very much co-ordinated. Trust me this is a huge blow to Corbyn's authority
— Michael Deacon is a bellend (@demarionunn) March 20, 2018
The clues were there for people who gave it more than a second glance.
todd bonzalez has practically been running the labour party for the last 5 years. hard to overstate the huge loss this is.
— Michael Deacon is a bellend (@demarionunn) March 19, 2018
And then the penny began to drop.
Whyyyy does this look like the closing credits of a Super Nintendo game?
— Swéta Rana (@s_rana_) March 20, 2018
IIRC this was actually from, like, an old Japanese baseball game where they fabricated American sounding names. I know it’s from a genuine game – I just can’t quite recall where from!
— Peter K O'Connor (@pkoconnor) March 20, 2018
It's from Fighting Baseball, released in 1994 in Japan.
— DearMallard (@DearMallard) March 20, 2018
Love the replies to this tweet.
— Doug Daniel: Cheese Ambassador (@DouglasDaniel) March 20, 2018
Can’t decide whether they’re playing along or pretending they know who they are
— Alan Morrison #FBPE (@1AlanM) March 20, 2018
Tell us about it. We’re off for a lie down.
