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Conservative chairman Grant Shapps starts #letthemeatbingo Twitter firestorm with budget 'Beer and Bingo' advert

on Mar 20, 2014 | 0 comments

By Stephen Lepitak

The Conservative party’s chairman, Grant Schapps has started a social media firestorm having tweeted an advert to celebrate George Osborne’s decision to cut duty on beer and taxation of bingo, describing it as something ‘hardworking people’ enjoy.

The reaction to the advert, which read ‘Bingo! Cutting the Bingo tax and beer duty – to help hard working people do more of the things they enjoy’ was originally tweeted by Shapps and caused instant furore on Twitter.

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Source: The Drum