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"There is no Dutch David Bowie," explains UK Culture Minister, to immediate Twitter ridicule

Earlier this morning while speaking at the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester, th...
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14.15 5 Oct 2015


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"There is no Dutch David Bowie," explains UK Culture Minister, to immediate Twitter ridicule

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14.15 5 Oct 2015


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Earlier this morning while speaking at the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester, the UK’s Culture Minister John Whattingdale took to the podium to issue his speech. Espousing the values of British culture, the Minister spoke of the Tories’ commitment to Britain and the British way of life, and caught the attention of Twitter with the following quote:

Originally written by the journalist and academic Dominic Sandbrook in an article in The Sunday Times, the press office of the Conservatives came in for an near universal onslaught of tweets reminding the party what else there is no non-British version of:

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