The meme arrived on Saturday morning, sent from a concerned friend. It showed Jeremy Clarkson sitting in the interlocutor’s chair on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? He looked composed, concerned, and a little apprehensive. The picture was accompanied by a subtitle: “OK Keir, for one million pounds…” Underneath was displayed a question and the famous millionaire multiple choice answers: “Finish the song title ‘Blame it on the…’ a) Sunshine b) Moonlight c) Good Times d) Far-Right.”
Of course, we knew that Keir Starmer was always going to blame everything on the Tories (no way was he going to blame the Jacksons). If you remember it was the centrepiece of his election campaign. Fourteen years of chaos! Underfunding! Cronyism! Flagrant disregard for public services! We all know now that the Prime Minister is an incredibly sophisticated NW5 luvvie, and therefore obviously wouldn’t have sanctioned something so crass, but my abiding memory of his campaign is a phrase which could have been inserted into any pre-election soundbite: “It’s the Tories wot dun it!”
