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Watch: Shapps’ rail announcement announcement is literally the Thick of It – bemused reactions

"Thank you so much. This really improves railway services in the Liverpool city region. Starting to feel fully levelled up now," one person said.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2022-01-21 15:42
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I used to pinch myself every day to make sure that I wasn’t in a dream (well, nightmare) and the government was actually doing what they were doing in the real world.

Lately, I have started punching myself, that’s how ridiculous the UK is becoming. It really hurts!

So this video of Grant Shapps on a train, like a creepy drunk leering over his paper (The Torygraph, naturally) on his train back to the Home Counties from Waterloo will leave you shaking your head and send a shiver down your spine.

Shapps, or Micheal Green as he is known on some dark corners of the internet, tells the viewer: “put unwanted newspapers in the bin…’ This is one example of the announcements that we’re getting rid of, making the passenger experience better and delivering on the Williams-Shapps.”

The video followed an announcement that the Government wants to scrap “banal” messages which the Department for Transport said “add unnecessary noise and disruption to journeys”.

📢 '…put unwanted newspapers in the bin…'

This is one example of the announcements that we're getting rid of, making the passenger experience better and delivering on the Williams-Shapps #PlanForRail.

Read more on announcements we’re removing 👇https://t.co/rSHLqZ5itH pic.twitter.com/xvp09Op4m9

— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) January 21, 2022

It was quickly spotted that it is almost exactly the same idea as this clip from The Thick of it, as Adan Bienkov pointed out.

OMG. They've actually just done The Thick of It. https://t.co/aOmj06ZxEe pic.twitter.com/72ABvKlU2Y

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) January 21, 2022

This is beyond parody, deep into the seventh dimension of cringe, a new frontier Shapps is welcome to explore, a one-way mission, we can only hope.

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Reactions

Other people were quite frankly baffled by the announcement…

1.

Thank you so much. This really improves railway services in the Liverpool city region. Starting to feel fully levelled up now. https://t.co/rDjEcvlodQ

— Matty (@MathewBerry01) January 21, 2022

2.

This Government is laughing at us, that’s the real Williams-Shapps plan https://t.co/9CeCUXFdR5

— Guy Lambert (@GRALCreates) January 21, 2022

3.

gOODness ME. witH dead cATS LikE ThIS, THe gOvErnMeNT IS TrUlY in safE hands :-/ https://t.co/qsYO0EJ91m

— Awatha 😷 (@mudjokivis) January 21, 2022

4.

Tbf, they did promise they would move heaven and earth to provide a modern, efficient, regular, reliable, high speed, high capacity, affordable railway for the north and so it is good to see them getting on with delivering on those promises. https://t.co/wbh1TOhWEK

— James Mitchinson (@JayMitchinson) January 21, 2022

5.

Yh because it’s announcements that are the issue and not the fucking cost https://t.co/Gcn0e9VEEM

— Elliot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇰🇳 (@UberEatsFan_) January 21, 2022

6.

"Mind the Gap" between what commuters actually need (reliable, affordable rail travel) and, well… this. https://t.co/biAMBvXejy

— Charlie (@CharlieFarley91) January 21, 2022

7.

What do we want? Cheaper rails fares

What are they giving us? Put your paper in the bin https://t.co/3iLsJv9y2N

— •𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗔• (@agirlcalledlina) January 21, 2022

8.

Messages repeated over and over annoying you are they @grantshapps?

I know a woman called Sue that might want to have a word. https://t.co/ne7VtSMJUd

— Angela Rayner (@AngelaRayner) January 21, 2022

9.

Who cares about this? Nobody.

Maybe Shapps should concentrate on not dropping services (and not sacking thousands of railway people) rather than dropping announcements. #RailBetrayal https://t.co/qv496FXbnG

— Gareth Dennis (@GarethDennis) January 21, 2022

10.

I see we’ve reached the ‘cones hotline’ stage of this tired, discredited and out of touch government.

Your bills are going through the roof, but don’t worry – Grant Shapps has sorted announcements on the train. Phew. https://t.co/Btz2rSvaoN

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) January 21, 2022

11.

Tbh we'd rather see you get rid of the announcements where you cancel investment and infrastructure projects https://t.co/fw36rNuH0g

— ASLEF (@ASLEFunion) January 21, 2022

12.

Meanwhile in Bolton: we only have an hourly service btwn MCR-Farnworth, trains frequently cancelled/delayed, up until recently still had pacer trains (yes, seriously), stations not step free

Yet despite this Grant thinks getting rid of some announcements is a worthwhile policy https://t.co/BhPom62FTy

— Yasmin Qureshi MP (@YasminQureshiMP) January 21, 2022

13.

Loving the Thick of It remake, and the tax pyer funded plug for Boris Johnson's "real boss" (according to Dominic Cummings) – the Telegraph.

(Wonder what Dacre and Murdoch will make of it though) https://t.co/NUjXk4aDkg

— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) January 21, 2022

13.

What the f*** is this. pic.twitter.com/LDZZtDSOLM

— Brendan May (@bmay) January 21, 2022

14.

Is this for real? 🤣🤣 https://t.co/FUP8dXjE8W

— Gary Lineker 💙 (@GaryLineker) January 21, 2022

Related: PMQs 19th January – Big Dog mauled by Bury beagle

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