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The 100 Funniest Tweets About UK Politics In 2017

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my interests include long walks on the beach holding hands & not talkin bout torture

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Heinous insults on the streets of London #MuslimBanprotest #MuslimBan

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Theresa May met some children today and it went GREAT.

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2017's hottest new techno thriller. Jeremy Corbyn is Jason Bourne in The Bourne Incompetency.

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Did anyone else see Theresa May eating a fish during PMQs earlier? #PMQs #Budget2017

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Thursday: Noel Fielding named host of GBBO Fri: George Osborne new editor of Evening Standard Sat: Sonic the Hedgehog becomes Labour leader

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'She said she wasn't going to call a general election' Theresa May:

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Political journalists at the start of 2014 V political journalists at the end of 2017

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On balance I'm thinking chaos with Ed Miliband might have been the simpler option

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"NOT ANOTHER ONE!" Watch Brenda's reaction when I tell her that the PM wants a General Election. Safe to say, she'… https://t.co/ORtKQj1wLN

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Paul Nuttall is currently locked himself in this room and is refusing to say if he will fight a seat at the electio… https://t.co/2YzCbcguuk

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Fact: Everyone that voted brexit shouts WAHEY when someone drops a pint in a pub

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Just choose a fucking colour.

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I'm not convinced the Conservatives thought this poster launch through.

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"I love these tasty human potato sticks" "Chips, Theresa, they are called..." "STRONG AND STABLE POTATO STICKS"

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Coming soon to ITV2: BURNHAM, a tough northern detective who breaks the rules but always gets results.

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If you say "strong and stable" three times into a mirror then Theresa May will appear and close your local A&E

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It's the remix to ignition Hot and fresh out the kitchen 4,000 homes for rough sleepers And you won't have to pay f… https://t.co/6gNfp8Lphx

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Find someone who looks at you like Tim Farron looks at Nick Clegg

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Rees Mogg totally nailing the 'family who take you in after your car breaks down in the storm in Tales of the Unexp… https://t.co/jlny1wa5EV

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Every single one of these men from last night's Question Time would keep your ball if it landed in their garden.

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me: i respect everyone regardless of who they vote for me in the pub on a friday night:

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I hope to one day be as excited by anything as this young man is about Theresa May's campaign speech

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This picture looks like Tim Farron has just saved the earth from a giant asteroid in the worst Michael Bay film ev… https://t.co/jXgkPgACwm

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Want to feel old? This is what Bucks Fizz look like now 👀 #Eurovision

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Theresa May's Facebook Live interview is going well

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Is it just me or is Paul Nuttall just walking on the spot in the UKIP party political broadcast? Hahaha 🤔🤔

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this vulture from the jungle book died and was replaced by a lookalike: a conspiracy theory thread

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"Activate them" "You couldn't possibly mean..." "Yes. The Home Counties Tories" "God have mercy"

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he whomsoever that canst draw the motorola from this carriageway shall be kinge of all post brexit englandde

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"pssst, Mrs May, stand like a human being" "a what" "a human person" "I am" "but" "this is my best standing human p… https://t.co/FU1ySiUpr3

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Am I the only person wondering why 1980s Tom Cruise was in the car with Corbyn? #corbyncar

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The Sunday Sport: ‘teenage Jeremy Corbyn squashed girl’s pet rabbit with his pogo stick’ https://t.co/aNAH2S4toA

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'Shhh I've only had 5 beers.' 'You've had 15.' 'It's closer to 10.'

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"Never have I ever ran through a field of wheat"

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Astonishing that the BBC are so blatant about it

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May now insisting all interviews take place in a rural warehouse and that interviewer comes alone, no cops.

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I see Corbyn's fallen for the office "Fancy-dress Friday" prank again

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When you start to realise you shouldn't have agreed to cover your mates shift at work #BBCDebate #wherestheresa

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Hahahah this is excellent @Ed_Miliband

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"Hello, my name is Jeremy Corbyn and I would like to talk to you about my *reads hand* policies."

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GROOT: "I am Groot" HODOR: "Hodor!" THERESA MAY: "Strong and stable leadership"

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When you're out with the lads and get back in the taxi after a tactical vom.

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The year is 2032. Great Britain holds a referendum every three seconds. The country is ankle deep in ballot papers. Biros are currency.

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Folks, the Brits have Elmo, Boss Hogg, and Trash Can Darth Vader as candidates. They never get to make fun of our e… https://t.co/7b2CnidX9s

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"If you're just joining us everything is on fire." #GE2017

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turned on the BBC and i forgot how absoloutely mental the election graphics packages are. this man is in PS2 Parlia… https://t.co/p3DlHsiNXM

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Never piss off wheat farmers in key marginals

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In case our oversees friends are curious about what's happening in British politics:

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'Would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids...' #GE2017

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.@theresa_may Hey girl, are you British Rail? Cos you're getting publicly owned.

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"Give me the mandate to speak for Britain. Give me the mandate to fight for Britain, and give me the mandate to del… https://t.co/5J5genxZyk

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"Well, David, the British people have spoken, and I think they've made very clear that what they like is absolute pandaemonium"

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My message to the people of the UK: Don't worry, I've got this. #GE2017

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"I got us into this mess, I'm going to get us out of it", says Theresa May.

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If Vince doesn't run with the Leadership campaign slogan 'Strong and Cable' then, quite frankly, he doesn't deserve to be Lib Dem leader

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Corbyn: "democracy is a wondrous thing that throws up some unexpected results" May:

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Can't leave the EU if you can't form a government

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I'm enjoying the irony of this looking like a gay wedding ceremony that neither set of parents entirely approve of.… https://t.co/R2XC9Ymg43

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Tory-DUP deal is like when your mum never had money for ice cream but still sent you to the shop to get cigs.

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PICTURED: Government begins removal of any evidence of dinosaurs from the UK following deal with the DUP.

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*FBI knocks on the door* "Nigel Farage? never heard of him"

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If you iron Gordon Ramsay you end up with Keir Starmer.

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I see the Brexit negotiations are going well

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when your mum shouts dinners ready but its not actually ready so you're just sat there like

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The UKIP lion looks like it's just been told its dinner is halal.

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More than 22,000 users are currently tracking flight #KQ100 en route to London. According to media #PritiPatel is… https://t.co/WEl4UYlQkK

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"We've met Benjamin Netanyahu by mistake"

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Meanwhile on Downing Street roof, the Prime Minister eagerly awaits Priti's return from Kenya... #PritiPatel… https://t.co/FdpfhFLJZw

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At an "acid corbynism" event. Absolute scenes.

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Not sure why but I photoshopped the dude handing May a copy of Iron Maiden's Powerslave and it's good.

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This is what happens when you send the Poles home.

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Boris Johnson: I'm going to be responsible for the biggest disaster at Tory conference Set designer: Hold my b r

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Theresa May is living the first verse of Lose Yourself by Eminem in front of our eyes.

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Source tells me ISIS have claimed responsibility for Theresa May's speech

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"I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please"

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The face on the guy behind is something special.

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Theresa was not impressed by Angela and Emmanuel's impromptu beatbox battle.

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Let's pause a moment to admire the total success of David Cameron's plan to use the Brexit referendum to heal the divisions in his party.

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John Redwood, Conservative MP for Mordor. #redsun

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This 2015 tweet from Cameron now reads like a wish granted by a cursed monkey paw.

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I like to think that with each Brexit front page The Mail is becoming more like me trying to deal with my kids.

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All the average British punter wants is to be paid less than £10 an hour and be incinerated in a nuclear holocaust, and good luck to em

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If I lose just six seats I will lose this election and Jeremy Corbyn will be sitting down to negotiate with Europe: https://t.co/OwbfDseOJh