Today, a massive UK power cut took out the electricity across large chunks of England and Wales. As well as robbing people of their precious internet access, British transport systems were also affected by the outage.
https://twitter.com/liam_kerridge/status/1159867185269002240
As inconvenient and scary as this was, it happened to the British, which means the primary response to it was sarcasm. #PowerCut started trending on Twitter and people jumped onto the apt political parallel that the situation provided.
Was that #powercut someone attempting to fix Britain by turning it off and on again?
— Emma Clarke (@emmabclarke) August 9, 2019
Did somebody just try and reboot the country to see if it would fix itself . No power and no phone signal #powercut pic.twitter.com/O89PHgSLsW
— Paul (@lobbufgjkj) August 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/nickostler/status/1159866401492013056
Some took the chance for a jab at Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Cause of #powercut revealed: pic.twitter.com/etcCBj3skK
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) August 9, 2019
Working on it #powercut pic.twitter.com/4kDVr0Tk31
— Luigi C (@ggkro) August 9, 2019
Others made jokes about Jacob William Rees-Mogg, leader of the House of Commons.
https://twitter.com/RhysHuws/status/1159868901615910917
Rees-Mogg's constituency office unaffected by #powercut pic.twitter.com/hKkFrZEtCo
— Simon HB (@norock) August 9, 2019
Brexit, naturally, also came up.
Country having a practice for no deal Brexit #powercut
— Wayne (@Gunga__Din) August 9, 2019
Well, the Daily Express called it, courtesy of @PrivateEyeNews #powercut pic.twitter.com/HA0qa3mWzE
— Alan Ferrier (@alanferrier) August 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/YorkshireLad_87/status/1159880074717536256
Stay calm and carry on – it’s just a dry run for Johnson-Cummings post-Brexit Britain! #powercut
— Angela 🛡🇪🇺💙 Rebel With Many Causes #ToriesOut (@spaceangel1964) August 9, 2019
Our obsession with tea got wheeled out.
See you don’t need to kill people to cause terror! Just stop Britain making tea and we lose our collective shit! #powercut
— mousemat123 (@mousemat123) August 9, 2019
Future leader.
— Jon Turnbull 💙💙💙 (@jonwturnbull1) August 9, 2019
And the IndyRefers—people who support the referendum on Scottish independence—were back.
Hey Boris!
— Seonaidh – mastodon.scot/@MacNaBracha (@MacNaBracha) August 9, 2019
There's another power cut coming soon.#indyref2 #powercut pic.twitter.com/e5H8V9jgAa
So basically, it was a concentrated tag of Britishness. Hopefully, we’ll all get the power back soon.
https://twitter.com/iamphilstewart/status/1159868764772585472
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