22 bright sparks react to the UK power cuts
Due to a fault at the National Grid, several areas of the UK experienced power cuts on Friday evening. With trains halted, traffic lights out and kettles unable to provide tea, you could be forgiven for thinking the whole thing was an exercise in restoring the Blitz spirit so beloved of Brexiters.
The event was certainly enough to spur on the Twitter comedians, with these bringing light into the dark.
1.
In the old days we made our own electricity by rubbing dry boy scouts together while doing the hokey-cokey and singing patriotic songs in the blitz and we survived perfectly well apart from everyone dying so we’ll be fine after Brexit stop complaining you commie scum.#powercut
— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) August 9, 2019
2.
The UK is so broken that we've resorted to turning it off and on again. #powercut pic.twitter.com/OVbnMyXjw1
— Brian Yim Lim (@DrBrianYL) August 9, 2019
3.
The power cut across London and the SE could end immediately if enough people believed in electricity.
— Peter Smith (@Redpeter99) August 9, 2019
4.
Rees-Mogg's constituency office unaffected by #powercut pic.twitter.com/hKkFrZEtCo
— Simon HB (@norock) August 9, 2019
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If you have a #PowerCut right now then I have no idea why pic.twitter.com/uYciG1dTf9
— Gladstone (@TreasuryMog) August 9, 2019
6.
I'm so fucking old I can remember power cuts from the 70s. FORM AN ORDERLY QUEUE YOU SWEATY RETRO PERVES
— Sarah Phelps (@PhelpsieSarah) August 9, 2019
7.
The EU appear to have cut us off 85 days early #powercut
— Con Franklin (@ConFranklin) August 9, 2019
8.
Well, the Daily Express called it, courtesy of @PrivateEyeNews #powercut pic.twitter.com/HA0qa3mWzE
— Alan Ferrier (@alanferrier) August 9, 2019
9.
Currently at the National grid #powercut pic.twitter.com/bovtaoKlt4
— smithy (@danielsmith152) August 9, 2019
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Katie Hopkins trying to find a way to blame the power cuts on immigration:#powercut pic.twitter.com/imzHrOUSkS
— Esq. (@gavmacn) August 9, 2019
11.
UK HIT BY HUGE METAPHOR. #powercut
— Nick Ostler (@nickostler) August 9, 2019
