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Welcome to Worst Hot Take of the Week – a column in which @MULLET_FAN_NEO crowns the wildest hot take of the week.
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Business minister Nadhim Zahawi said the real reason that the Prime Minister was yet to visit victims of the flooding was not due to a lack of empathy, nor his blatant disregard to his duties as prime minister, nor anything to do with fact he was spending his week cosied from the perils of the storm in a 115-room grace-and-favour mansion in Kent like some fop in a Brontë novel, but because he consciously attempting to save the flood-hit communities from a “media jamboree” and allow the work of the emergency services to continue without disruption.It’s good to see the “he actually cares too much to show up, he didn’t want to cause a scene” defence not only being utilised as an excuse for estranged dads across the country after failing to attend their kid’s birthday party, but for the literal prime minister of Britain in the midst of a national emergency.
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Cue a barrage of remarks from both sides of the political spectrum; one-half boasting that they were too smart be in his predicament: “You bought a house near a river, serves you right!” and the other gloating: “You voted Tory, serves you right!” Which perfectly exemplifies the unhelpful quandary most people have found themselves in this week: some thought the Tories cared about them, some didn’t, but regardless of everything they're all being indistinguishably shat on from a great height.With a new UN-backed report suggesting that considerable parts of Britain could be lost to sea within a few decades, the knowledge that we're all doomed to be trapped on this drowning, cut-off, tiny island with nearly all our villages, towns and cities built alongside rivers, I really hope the government in charge of futureproofing us against the woes of the climate change is going to do more than issue a voucher booklet for Wetherspoons and hope it all blows over.@MULLET_FAN_NEO