BREXIT is a complete mess. We've known this for a long time, the events of last night and this morning have merely thrown an already chaotic situation into even more disarray. If that was even possible.
The situation has inadvertently been summed up by a fault in the BBC live strap that runs along the bottom of their news coverage.
Absolutely incredible stuff from the BBC subtitles team. pic.twitter.com/3TCXmBCv3f
— Thomas Colson (@tpgcolson) July 9, 2018
Under the headline "Brexit Secretary resigns", the BBC carried the accompanying strapline of "Mission has been paused due to depleting oxygen levels". The headline remained while straplines from other stories appeared.
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Well done to Twitter user Thomas Colson who noticed the error before snapping some images of them.
Check it below along with the others two.
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