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The Internet Is Mocking British Politicians With Spectacular Memes

Following a week of shocking political turmoil, the future of British politics is looking more than a little chaotic.

Tories are stabbing one another in the back in the race to become leader, the Labour party is doing its utmost to oust leader Jeremy Corbyn, and Nigel Farage’s inflammatory post-Brexit speech to the European Parliament was the political equivalent of poking a snake with a stick.

Luckily, the Great British public has responded in the very best way possible.

Instead of indulging in all the doom-and-gloomery, we’ve been taking to photoshop to create some truly excellent memes.

Politicians are being made over into characters from our favourite TV shows, and the results are excellent.

Tory leadership candidate Michael Gove was transformed into a number of less-than-savoury telly characters.

Twitter user David Mason is clearly not a Gove fan, reimagining him as the dreaded Night King.

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He was also turned into everyone’s favourite mafia villain.

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And he was put in the chair of House of Cards’ Machiavellian schemer Frank Underwood.

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Gove’s savaging of Boris Johnson saw him turned into a murderous Macbeth.

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Boris himself didn’t fair much better. The general consensus on Twitter was that he’d created a huge mess and left other people to clean it up. And the memes were savage…

Mr Johnson was likened to Batman ultra-baddie The Joker.

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The disparity between Boris’s mop-like ‘do and his actions didn’t go unnoticed.

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But not everyone was all that surprised by yesterday’s revelation:

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Outgoing PM David Cameron was judged by the web to have stealthily dodged a bullet, and to be feeling justifiably smug about the whole thing.

Jimmy Rushmore guessed how David Cameron might have been feeling.

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Sebastian Payne had the same sort of idea.

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You get the idea.

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Seriously good work, internet, keep it up.