Professor Stephen Hawking has rattled Jeremy Hunt’s cage alright. As in rattled it enough for Hunt to forget that no good ever came from mixing it with a walking talking National Treasure. It’s a hiding to nothing. Did he not learn from New Labour’s Phil Woolas, Minister for Borders & Immigration, who in 2009 got himself flattened when Joanna Lumley (National Treasure One) stepped into the ring for the Gurkhas (National Treasure Two)?
Great fun. But when, in a Graun piece yesterday, Hawking dished it to the Tories over the NHS the foolhardy Mr Hunt couldn’t resist tweeting his spleen:
Talk about sticking your dick in a hornets’ nest!
Also great fun – if you’re in the mood for dark irony – is the fact Hunt’s a financial beneficiary of the creeping privatisation of our NHS.
Last laugh, though, goes undoubtedly to Labour Shadow Health Minister Justin Madders for this tweet:
Professor Hawking has given us answers to many of the universe’s most challenging questions, and even he can’t work out why Jeremy Hunt is still in his job.
not really “walking” national treasure, is he Phil?