🎁➡️🏛️Ah, Westminster’s favourite parlour game: blame-shifting. When the Foreign Secretary was asked about the row over hiring a former US ambassador under the watchful gaze of Lord Mandelson, she practically ducked behind the sofa. Apparently, she wasn’t even in the room. Not me, guv. I was busy yelling at migrants last week. Yes, because nothing says “serious stateswoman” quite like moonlighting as a border security sound machine while recruitment scandals smoulder in the Cabinet Office.
🧼 The Teflon Tango
This is the choreography: problem arises → deny involvement → blame another department → look very serious on camera → repeat. Cooper insists all the “due diligence” sat with No. 10 and the Cabinet Office, as if her desk is a sterile zone where no scandal can penetrate. It’s political Teflon, and she’s just cooked herself a nice alibi omelette.
But here’s the kicker—if it goes right, she’ll claim she had a hand in the hire. If it goes wrong, well, she was busy chasing migrants through Heathrow’s arrivals hall with a megaphone. Truly, Westminster efficiency at its finest. 🛂📋
🔥 Challenges 🔥
Why do ministers always find someone else to blame? Is this incompetence, cowardice, or just the ancient Westminster blood sport of “duck and cover”? 🦆💼
Jump into the comments—should ministers own the messes in their orbit, or is finger-pointing just the only transferable skill in politics?
👇 Like, share, comment—and name your favourite scapegoating act of the past decade.
The best clapbacks will be featured in the magazine. 🎤📝
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