Corbyn welcomes election like 'the INJURED DOG welcomes the vet’s needle', blasts comedian
COMEDIANS have mocked Jeremy Corbyn’s chances of becoming Prime Minister and bashed Theresa May for calling a snap election during a radio panel show.
Comedian mocks Corbyn's comments on welcoming election
Miles Jupp, the host of BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, ripped into the Labour leader after he launched his campaign to take down the Tories this week.
Likening the Islington North MP to an “injured dog”, he predicted the end of his reign as party leader.
He said: “Jeremy Corbyn has said he welcomes the election – much as the injured dog welcomes the approach of the vet’s needle in the imminent release of death.
“We will get another one from the shelter.”
Jeremy Corbyn launched his campaign to thwart Theresa May this week
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I was frankly shocked that in a week when the royal princes were campaigning to improve this nations mental health, Theresa May called an election!
Panel member Andy Hamilton also took aim at the Mr Corbyn after blasting the Prime Minister over the election move.
He said: “I couldn’t believe this, I was frankly shocked that in a week when the royal princes were campaigning to improve this nation's mental health, Theresa May called an election!”
Hamilton joked the snap election was “workplace bullying”.
He said: “She clearly feels the need to annihilate the Labour party. She doesn’t need to annihilate the Labour party – they’re doing that themselves.
Jeremy Corbyn on the campaign trail this week
“That’s not really politics, that’s workplace bullying in my book.”
He predicted there would be another divisive vote ahead for the “doomed” British public.
Hamilton said: “She [Mrs May] came out with all sorts of absurd justifications, my favourite absurd statement that she made was ‘I trust the British people’ – why?
“How have we possibly earned that kind of trust. Name one choice that we have made in the last 50 years that turned out well?
“I reckon you’d have to go back to Lulu and the Eurovision song contest. We’re doomed basically.”