Our favourite funny reactions to the Downing Street lectern’s design fail
You’ll no doubt be aware that Downing Street now has a fancy US-style briefing room to go with its fancy US-style government spokesperson – Allegra Stratton, in case you’re interested.
The first images emerged at the weekend, showing that the £2.6m refurbishment had gone all-in on the flags and the Tory blue paint job.
Only four flags? Heads must roll. pic.twitter.com/CXUPeKHUL1
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) March 15, 2021
I’m not being funny, but it looks exactly like the stage at Conservative Party Conference.
If Labour had won the election and spent £2.6 million painting bits of Downing Street red people would have gone absolutely ballistic. pic.twitter.com/PF241KQNzs
— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) March 15, 2021
There were a lot of questions about the price tag – but Darren Dutton had it covered.
Revealed: The costings for the new Downing Street Briefing Room pic.twitter.com/RqCtinGVwv
— Darren Dutton (@Darren_Dutton) March 16, 2021
Unfortunately, the Russian-owned company that carried out the work had either not planned very well or had been given a last-minute addition to their instructions, because this happened.
£2.6m for a briefing room, and this is the podium?? pic.twitter.com/KUBTJl22eP
— Henry Mance (@henrymance) March 15, 2021
The words ‘DOW REET’ trended on Twitter for hours, and these tweets stood out considerably better than the lectern’s label does.
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Remember, kids, in these times of covid: Ha… Fa… …ace #DowReet
— Jake Yapp (@jakeyapp) March 16, 2021
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We now go live to Dow Reet! pic.twitter.com/aFUvaIW9ZG
— Matt Swift (@MSwift94) March 15, 2021
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The Comms room. Communications. Message discipline. Attention to detail 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂ #DowReet pic.twitter.com/v2IGyID8IH
— Tam Jardine (@Tam__Jardine) March 15, 2021
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"So, Boris, yeah? You want 4 flags, a crap desk, school chairs, bit of moody walnut veneer and a mini podium? Yeah, mate. £2.6m all in, best offer. Tell you what… I'll even stencil 'Dow Reet' on the front. Cushty."https://t.co/LY7lgJlUkr pic.twitter.com/yv3gU4IgIT
— James S Clarke (@JSClarkeRenew) March 16, 2021
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I almost couldn’t believe they’d covered the lettering with the crest, but then… #DowReet pic.twitter.com/L2UjgWzjHR
— Martin Angus (@martinangus) March 15, 2021
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Incompetence wrapped in a flag. #DowReet pic.twitter.com/orltCkheM0
— Martin Linklater 💙 (@fizzychicken) March 16, 2021
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The worst makeover since Linda Barker fucked with that lady’s teapots on them string shelves.
DOW REET ! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/aq03QCuJl7— Glen Scott (@glenrules) March 15, 2021
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'They say how much for job? For joke we say £2.6m and we'll throw in Henry Hoover and they're like 'when can you start?'' #DowReet #henryhoover pic.twitter.com/nEuWMyvFO9
— Harry Palmer (@harrypalmer285) March 15, 2021
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Little did you know that Dow reet is how the stock market is discussed over a few pints in Whitley Bay
— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) March 15, 2021
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in fairness what is more british than a new build with some absolutely shocking snags because it was somehow both very expensive and done on the cheap https://t.co/cSwG2uzxNf
— lines (@thatinterlace) March 15, 2021
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I made this for art gcse using chicken wire and mod roc. I got a b- https://t.co/Gl7qok4SJZ
— Bella Mackie (@bellamackie) March 15, 2021
The very funny @RussInCheshire pointed out the solution to the problem.
For another £2.6 million, we can have a plinth that displays all the letters.#DowReet pic.twitter.com/fDG4V6bZny
— Russ (@RussInCheshire) March 15, 2021
Matt Hancock probably knows a guy who’ll do it for just £2.5m.
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