Esther McVey asked to identify where the airport is she’s talking about is a very funny watch
Here’s Tory leader wannabe Esther McVey being interviewed by Iain Dale on LBC radio, complaining about the horrendous waste of the UK’s foreign aid, in particular this nightmare of an airport.
Esther McVey told LBC that foreign aid has been mis-spent, including on an airport where the runway was built in the wrong direction facing the wind.
Iain Dale: "Where has that happened?"
McVey: "It's in… one of the continents… abroad."@iaindale | #ForeignAid pic.twitter.com/guJW6qJjSf
— LBC (@LBC) June 12, 2019
EM: ‘Airports have been built and the runways are in the wrong direction because of the winds.’
ID: ‘Where has that happened?’
EM: ‘It’s in one of the er … er … er … continents abroad. We know we’ve got that airport …’
Continents abroad!
And there were lots of very funny and enlightening replies.
I love "It's in…one of the continents…abroad." She may as well have said: "It's in…the world." https://t.co/TT1EO6imAl
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) June 12, 2019
She knows aircraft can take off in the other direction right?
— Justin (@Sheepie_1985) June 12, 2019
This actually happened on St Helena, which is a British Overseas Territory, and so it was not uh, foreign aid https://t.co/YIUxfdqa09
— Daniel Knowles (@dlknowles) June 12, 2019
But this one was the best.
Total rubbish. The runway in question is in St Helena. I was the DFID Minister who built it – completed early, under budget, and despite difficult wind conditions it operates well. It fulfils our legal obligations to a UK overseas territory and so is not "foreign aid". https://t.co/n4AmL0kBWY
— Sir Alan Duncan MP (@AlanDuncanMP) June 12, 2019
And just to underline that.
.@EstherMcVey1 means Saint Helena, which is a British Overseas Territory (so not a recipient of foreign aid), where the runway wasn’t built in the wrong direction, but where wind shear can be an issue. So there’s literally not one word of what she says in this clip that’s true.
— Matt Bishop (@TheBishF1) June 12, 2019
Vote McVey! Anyone?
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