THERE was something not quite right about the Foreign Office’s most recent attempt to promote Great British engineering.
Their tweet simply said: “Opening in 2017, the 2.7 km Queensferry Crossing will be the longest 3 tower cable-stayed bridge in the world #DesignisGREAT #GlobalBritain”
The picture accompanying that tweet was a couple of years out date, featuring only the iconic Forth Bridge and original Forth Road Bridge.
It didn’t take too long for fellow Twitter users to make the Foreign Office aware of their mistake and to point out that maybe the British government shouldn’t be taking credit for the new bridge over the Forth. Rhiannon Spear tweeted: “1. It was paid for by Scot Govt. 2. That’s the Forth Bridge. 3. Britain is FAR from great atm #Brexit” Tristan Henderson said: “That’s not the fifth Forth bridge!”
“BRITAIN, it says, with a flag, just in case you didn’t get it. Shame it’s a) wrong bridge b) built by Scottish govt” Jen Stout said.
SNP minister Mark McDonald tweeted: “Don’t worry everyone, when the Queensferry Crossing fails to win Wimbledon they’ll revert to it being a Scottish bridge again.”
In a bid to help, hundreds then contacted the Foreign Office twitter account with pictures of bridges. The Rialto Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, Jeff Bridges.
At lunchtime yesterday, the tweet was still live.
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