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5 June 2019updated 07 Jun 2021 3:46pm

Cringe UK: Watch the moment a Change UK MP tells her audience to “look at your hands”

By Media Mole

There’s another party running in the European elections at the last minute, and its name is Cringe UK. Vote for it if you want muscle-clenching rhetoric and wince-inducing messaging.

Because that’s the kind of politics Labour-turned-Change UK MP Joan Ryan delivered at a rally today.

“Can you just look at your hands, please?” she asked, holding hers out above the lectern, like Oliver Twist at a primary school mock election.

“That’s it, it’s there. That’s the answer to this. It’s in your hands.”

She then released her hands from their book-like display with a flourish.

Watch it here, if you can see through your own hands, which presumably have gravitated over your face in horror:


A positive and uplifting moment in British politics, if you read some of the best Twitter jokes:


The best part of this speech is that she tells the audience: “You’re really good, you’re doing that ever so well, that’s the best I’ve seen it done – brilliant!”

So she’s done it before.

And with that, your mole will leave you with the Safety Dance:

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