Heading to the Titanic Quarter when he was 20 points behind the iceberg. Posing underneath an Exit sign, leaving our fallen heroes on the beaches to do a pre-rec with ITV that wasn’t even going out until last night.
It has become a parlour game to guess what he will delight us with next ahead of his July 4 end-date. Insult Judi Dench? Canonise Jimmy Savile? Do a “family shop” at Asda without a pound coin for the trolley?
We didn’t have to wait long as his next inside job was to go all Monty Python on us during his ITV News interview with Paul Brand (the famous “hole in the ground” sketch with the four northerners showing off about how destitute they were). Yes he spoke about his deprived childhood on TV. He went there. Oops!
This shows total unawareness of the iron rule that if you went to a fee-paying school this means that you can never, ever complain about anything that happens to you for the rest of your life. The only exception to this is if you were abused at said school, preferably in the Seventies, and then of course you can get a book out of it.
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