Theresa May compared herself to Geoff Boycott and everybody’s bowled over – 17 stumped reactions
When Theresa May appeared at number 10 Downing Street for her second press conference within 24 hours, there seemed to be an outside chance that she might be about to resign – she didn’t. Instead, she rambled on about how grateful she was for the service of the Tories who’d jumped ship in protest at her tentative deal, insisted she’d be there to deliver Brexit and ended on a weird note. This is what she said.
Brexit means Boycott…?! The Prime Minister likens herself to @GeoffreyBoycott pic.twitter.com/kvmuJHwNMC
— BBC Yorkshire (@BBCLookNorth) November 15, 2018
“Geoffrey Boycott stuck to it and he got the runs in the end”
Of course, an Eric Cantona-like ending such as that was hardly going to pass by the good folk of Twitter without comment, so these are the best we saw. Enjoy.
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I’m hallucinating. I just imagined that our Prime Minister, having lost a chunk of her cabinet and the support of her party, called a press conference, announced that she was Geoffrey Boycott and sashayed off screen.
— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) November 15, 2018
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Very apposite for the Prime Minister to use her Boycott analogy… He was, of course, famously and deliberately run out by one of his own teammates. Mr Botham, I believe.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) November 15, 2018
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To be fair, Theresa May comparing herself to Geoffrey Boycott, and saying he "always got the runs" – I'd be shitting myself too if I was her.#Brexitchaos
— Tom Pride (@ThomasPride) November 15, 2018
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Theresa May: "As I've said before, one of my cricketing heroes is Geoffrey Boycott. And what do we know about Geoffrey Boycott?"
Er, that he's a massive racist?
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) November 15, 2018
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https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1063127991973306368
6.
What is cricket and who the f*** is Geoffrey Boycott?
— Angela Merkel (@Queen_Europe) November 15, 2018
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Theresa May ends her press conference proudly comparing herself to indefatigable woman-assaulter Geoffrey Boycott before staunchly walking off into a pointless sense of duty.
— Lucy Prebble (@lucyprebblish) November 15, 2018
8.
Can we agree to ban Cricket analogies in politics? Anything ending “he got the runs in the end” as a good thing, shouldn’t be allowed#Brexit
— Rachel Riley (@RachelRileyRR) November 15, 2018
