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October 5, 2017

Highlights From Theresa May’s Horrific, Much-Interrupted Speech [Video]

You're allowed the odd hiccup when speaking on stage, but in the most important speech of her political career Theresa May had a shocker.

Theresa May looks like one of those vultures from The Jungle Book come to life.

How about this for a Boris Johnson / May double act?

We’re being silly, but the truth remains that the Prime Minister’s speech yesterday at the Conservative party conference in Manchester was a complete nightmare.

It actually started rather incident-free, as May “laid out her party’s future, announced new policies and responses to hot issues like the Grenfell Tower fire and Brexit”.

She even cracked a few jokes at her own expense, but then it all went south.

Comedian Lee Nelson pranked her by publicly handing her a P45 form (the form handed to workers to signal an end in employment), and it unravelled from there.

Here’s something of a highlights reel:

Never a good look when the letters start falling off the walls.

If you’re thinking that Lee Nelson looks familiar then you may remember his Sepp(tic) Blatter prank from 2015, when he flung money at the disgraced former FIFA president (HERE).

By the way, a number of other letters also tumbled off the wall that weren’t captured on film:

If you’re into symbolism then you’re having a field day.

[source:mashable]