FOLLOWING a week of calamitous disaster for Theresa May, a rather fitting sight has popped up outside of Number 10.
An Acme Removal van has been spotted at the Prime Minister's residence.
Ummmm ... don’t read too much into this: pic.twitter.com/muMCDt7dKL
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) December 8, 2017
The Acme Corporation is well-known as a fictional company that supplies Wile E. Coyote with the equipment he needs to catch the Road Runner; equipment that inevitably backfires on him.
It seems fitting that the infamous organisations namesake would show up after a week of comically incompetent blunders from Theresa May's government, including David Davis admitting that not a single impact assessment into Brexit had been done.
Following rumours of a plot to oust May by Christmas, the fact that it's a removal van also adds a degree of sly humour...
This entry from our front cover challenge yesterday seems all the more relevant today.
— Lindsay Bruce (@RogueCoder250) December 6, 2017
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