Chancellor George Osborneās decision to tweet a photo of him eating a Byron burger on Tuesday night has caused a rash of parodies, with Cabinet colleague Eric Pickles and Newsnight host Jeremy Paxman joining in.
Just as Osborne enjoyed his burger when finishing off his spending review speech, Paxman was shown putting his own āfinal touchesā to the script for Wednesdayās Newsnight. Instead of a posh burger, Paxman appears to be enjoying swan.
Paxman: Putting final touches to tonightās #newsnightscripts pic.twitter.com/1hmBWD9cdt
ā BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) June 27, 2013
This came after Communities Secretary Eric Pickles made his own joke in putting out a photo of him āputting final touchesā to a speech he was going to deliver to the Local Government Association. His food of choice? A salad.
Putting final touches to the LGA speech #lgaconf13pic.twitter.com/ls9ZWDz3rM
ā Eric Pickles (@EricPickles) June 27, 2013
Osborne responded to this barb by supportively retweeting Picklesā post and commenting āNice one Ericā. This may have come as a reaction to Osborne poking fun at Picklesā weight in offering back-handed praise to the minister as a āmodel of lean governmentā in his spending review speech.
Nice one Eric
ā George Osborne (@George_Osborne) June 27, 2013
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