Gordon McKee is taking the biscuit. The MP for Glasgow South – who’s a member of the 2024 consumption – has wracked up over 3 million views on a TikTok video during which he makes use of bourbons and custard lotions to clarify the UK’s debt to GDP ratio.
McKee, who at 31 years previous might be classed as a “Zillenial” (between the top of Millenials and the beginning of Technology Z), is the one backbencher recognized to have employed his personal digital content material specialist.
His sleights of snackery have taken the Parliamentary Labour Occasion by storm and have impressed a wave of copy-cat colleagues. Richard Burgon defined the necessity to tax billionaires utilizing a number of packets of Sainsbury’s personal fusilli (most of which has now been donated to a foodbank).
The Pygge has heard that McKee’s viral video has had different unintended penalties. The Glasgow South MP now has a rolling provide of custard lotions being despatched on to his Parliamentary places of work. His staffers aren’t fairly certain what to do with them. However they might be good fodder for one more raft of movies: what can be subsequent, a custard cream themed explainer of Quantitative Easing?
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