Former labour leader Ed Miliband shared the ironic tweet with a clown emoji (Pictures: Getty)
There is often no better feeling than proving someone wrong.
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband has done so in spectacular style today, in the wake of Liz Truss’s latest U-turn on her mini-budget and her sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng.
The Doncaster North MP dug up an old tweet from David Cameron, who had posted in 2015: ‘Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice – stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband.’
After today’s political earthquakes in Westminster, the word ‘stability’ associated with the Tories is seen by many as an example of irony so apt it could serve as a definition for the concept.
Mr Miliband clearly didn’t think his post needed much explaining or context, confident the day’s political developments had already done all the point-proving he could hope for.
The 52-year-old added a clown emoji to the tweet, and then sat back as it garnered more than 100,000 likes and 20-plus thousand retweets.
But Mr Miliband later did go on to write on Twitter: ‘The fever that has taken over the Tory party didn’t start with Liz Truss.
‘Trickle-down economics has been the guiding philosophy for 12 years. It has failed.’
Ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband lost the 2015 election to David Cameron in 2015 (Picture: Getty)
Mr Miliband lost the 2015 election to Mr Cameron just days after the latter politician posted the tweet.
The post has resurfaced at various points over the years, often when chaos reigns within the Tory party.
People have even got the post printed on mugs, T-shirts and in framed pictures.
Next to take the reigns of the country’s economy is the newly-installed Jeremy Hunt.
Kwasi Kwarteng was fired over the mini-Budget announcement’s effect on the market (Picture: AP)
He takes over as Chancellor of the Exchequer after Mr Kwarteng was sacked over the mini-Budget crisis today, after just six weeks in the job.
He had returned early from a meeting in Washington DC overnight and headed straight for a meeting with Ms Truss at Downing Street.
The Prime Minister later announced she was going back on another one of the financial policies she campaigned on, scrapping plans to block a planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%.
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Nothing proves a point quite like irony.
