Richard Tice's guide to sitting back and enjoying a wildfire

By Richard Tice, Reform shadow minister for not being Farage and MP of somewhere urgh

WHY the hysteria? Climate change can’t be fought. Instead, follow these simple rules and you’ll find yourself savouring the wildfires in your neighbourhood. 

Choose a vantage point

Ideally a hill, but if it offers spectacular views the roof of a neighbour’s house is fine as long as you’re more English than they are. Set up a folding chair, an ice bucket and opera glasses and watch the spectacle unfold. Keep an eye out for the group of scrotal teenagers who set it, they are natural Reform canvassers. 

Enjoy the panic

The woke Fire Brigade, the something-for-nothing crew, the police with their so-called concern for public safety – they’ll all be scurrying around, bleating about danger from the fires which have dominated this proud country since time immemorial. I don’t recall anyone screeching the Great Fire of London should be ‘put out’! Lefty nonsense. 

Bask in the heat 

If global warming is real – and many prominent-on-the-internet scientists believe it isn’t – then isn’t that a blessing? Haven’t we all complained about the British weather? The truth is, the liberal commentariat is outraged that Clacton, Blackpoool, Skegness and other Reform-loving towns will be popular holiday resorts again, and Tuscany closed down. 

Imagine Green faces

As the grassfire spreads to the trees – wow, that pine went up like a rocket! – you should be chuckling away as you picture the dismayed fizzogs of the Green lobby. Every tree consumed by flames is a slap in their stupid, self-satisfied faces, which means every tree that burns is a win for good old-fashioned common sense alarm clock Britain. 

Toast British ingenuity

Fires in Spain and France? Caused by mere accident. Fires in the UK? Set by children making their own entertainment, gloriously discarded fag-ends from white van windows, or celebratory fireworks. Let’s toast them with a pint of ale and a pack of ten per cent pork sausages on the disposable barbecue. Take that, Burnham. 

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'You're my lobster' and other quotes from TV shows people need to get the f**k over

THE unimaginative walk among us, still trotting out quotes from TV shows that ceased broadcast decades ago. These six scream ‘Jesus Christ, watch something else’: 

‘You’re my lobster’

It was fun the first time Phoebe Buffay suggested that Friends couple Ross and Rachel belong together. Like lobsters, who supposedly mate for life, not that you give a shit. But when you’ve seen it on enough wedding invitations and tea towels you find yourself fully behind boiling lobsters alive and would happily watch a livestream.

‘Bazinga!’

The Big Bang Theory refuses to die and has now spawned at least two spin-off shows. Even nerds hate it. But more unkillable than its TV presence is the demonic current that keeps people buying tote bags and stickers emblazoned with Sheldon Cooper’s meaningless, moronic catchphrase.

‘Computer says no’

Little Britain, for all its many, many faults – see any millennial’s social media for details – at least felt a bit edgy. Today, every shit-useless colleague who can’t find the Attachment button on Outlook thinks it’s an opportune moment to quote a 23-year-old sketch show instead of admitting they cannot use a computer and should retire.

‘Winter is coming’

You’d think that its dire finale would have killed off all Game of Thrones’s cultural capital as dead as Cersei Lannister, crushed by masonry RIP, but come autumn and you can’t go five minutes without someone solemnly intoning this as if it’s the most profound thing they’ve ever heard and not just how seasons work.

‘I’m Pickle Rick!’

The trajectory of Rick & Morty to fun cartoon to cult show dominated by audience of men who take online IQ tests and post them on LinkedIn was swift. These men all find Pickle Rick to be a line worthy of frequent quoting despite it not working in any context whatsoever.

‘I am the one who knocks.’

Sorry, Breaking Bad fans, but no you are not. It may hurt to hear it, but you’re a middle-aged man who works in office furniture sales. Male pattern baldness has given you a superficial resemblance to Walter White, but you are not ‘the danger’, even if your mouse mat says so.