HBO’s John Oliver will occasionally use Last Week Tonight to try to educate American viewers on a subject they know little about, but the subject of Oliver’s Sunday wrath this time was not the dictatorship of Turkmenistan, but his native Britain’s Conservative Party which is down in the polls ahead of their July 4 election. Being the host of a nominal comedy show gave Oliver the impression that he could compare Conservatives to “a wild badger” and label them “cunts, fuckpigs, and weirdos” and be taken seriously.
Reacting to a man who lamented that Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has run a “dull” campaign because he believes he does not need to risk anything because of his party’s big lead in the polls, Oliver ranted, “Yeah, maybe that's true, but after everything you've seen tonight, you can probably understand why people are much more concerned about who's leaving than who's coming next. If a wild badger broke into your home and fucked everything up for 14 straight years, tearing everything apart, you might think ‘you know what, we’ll argue about redecorating choices later, right now, that badger's got to fucking go.’”
He continued, “And I will say, if the U.K. can successfully rid itself of the Tories next month, that's not cause for a shrug, that's cause for a celebration. And I know that celebration's not something that comes naturally to Britons.”
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