Ed Balls had the perfect response to a comment on a Tory leadership headline
In the race to find the UK’s next Prime Minister, one of the hopefuls, Matt Hancock, decided to throw in the towel, leading to a dubious headline in the Huffington Post. Editor, Jess Brammar, tweeted about the decision to use it.
We debated this headline, but in the end I decided it’s not our fault that’s his name pic.twitter.com/0QueJHnBeT
— Jess Brammar (@jessbrammar) June 14, 2019
She has a point, but former Labour MP and darling of the Strictly crowd, Ed Balls, had an even better point.
Could be worse.. https://t.co/Brx12cmhVF
— Ed Balls (@edballs) June 14, 2019
A few people had some things to add to Ed’s zinger.
Hancock pulls out gives even more scope for innuendo.
— Steve Humphreys™ 🌜 (@TheActualSteve) June 14, 2019
I would have gone for Matt Finish
— The Bald Truth 🤓 (@Mr_Furs) June 14, 2019
So he’s had his half hour!
— Karl Parr (@KP1963) June 14, 2019
The BBC’s Jon Sopel made this comment.
Cock and Balls story https://t.co/mEqoI72LuD
— Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) June 14, 2019
That’s it in a nutshell.