Can you spell the name of a wooden puppett?

[Fambo Number Mive]

Boris Johnson's father doesn't think the public can

Joanna Gosling: "One of our viewers called your son Pinocchio."

Stanley Johnson: "That requires a degree of literacy which I think the great British public doesn't necessarily have. They couldn't spell Pinocchio if they tried."

You can see more from Johnson's dad here: https://twitter.com/tezilyas/status/1176541067711262720

[holyzombiejesus]

Oh dear.

[pancreas]

I would have struggled to decide how many 'n's.

[BlodwynPig]

I would have struggled to decide how many 'n's.

Dumb assnn
Pinnocchnnionn

[EOLAN]

How does calling someone after a character best known from a Disney cartoon; require any degree of literacy?

[Chollis]

General Augusto Pinocchio

[PlanktonSideburns]

That's why I prefer the term

CUNT

[Butchers Blind]

He's right though, peopols speling is atroceous.

[Cuellar]

Ben.

Easy.

[Jittlebags]

[phantom_power]

The worst part is him thinking it beyond the pale to call the PM a liar. Is that any PM or just your putrid spawn?

[Buelligan]

Pettruchio farrago?



I think, in the Johnson context, it's actually spelt l i a r.

[momatt]

Spelling something incorrectly doesn't mean it's not true.
But you don't need to go to a public school to know how to spell.

Pair of fukcing kunts, the pair of them.

[Captain Z]

P O B

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That cartoon intro drummed it into our heads like we were revising for this very exam and we have FAILED IT, people.

(Well, I haven't.  You have and I'm not going to fall on my sword for you.)

[JesusAndYourBush]

How does calling someone after a character best known from a Disney cartoon; require any degree of literacy?

Yeah, what a muppet!

[Jittlebags]

What's the doddery old twat doing having media interviews anyway?

[thenoise]

> campaigns on behalf of a political party that cuts funding for public education, and makes it prohibitively expensive for normal people to get a decent education.

>Laughs at how poorly educated the average person is.

Lol what a loveable harmless buffoon #votetory

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