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I, for one, never expected to see this Alanis-themed pun about the former Conservative Chancellor but here we all are #brexit #rebels #yououghttoknow 👏 @stephenkb @NewStatesman

It can almost be hard to tell them apart. But this is Phil: “As my mother told me sticks and stones may break my bones but words don’t hurt me.”

And this is Alanis: “Cause the love that you gave that we made wasn’t able to make it enough for you to be open wide, no. And every time you speak her name does she know how you told me you’d hold me until you died ‘til you died, but you're still alive.”

Phil: “I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.”

Alanis: “Is she perverted like me?
Would she go down on you in a theater?
Does she speak eloquently
And would she have your baby?
I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother.”

“There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government... thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.”

“It was a slap in the face how quickly I was replaced are you thinking of me when you fuck her?”

“The irony of course is that this is the government that has just led the world by committing to a zero-carbon economy.”

You might say, a little *too* ironic.

“I’m here. To remind you. Of the mess you left when you went away.”

Well. Quite.