The Wardman Wire

Three Line Whip suggests that politics is becoming personalised again:

It appears that the magnificent Ken Dodd has a gag in his current stage show about the Prime Minister: “Every time I see Gordon Brown on the telly I think: ‘I bought that suit’.”

Older readers will remember that Doddy’s loathing for the tax man is as great as his comic talent. He fought a famous court case in 1989 over his tax bills and after a three month trial was acquitted. The memory clearly lingers on - but it’s interesting to see the way he has turned it into a Gordon Brown gag.

About time too.

Politics that is push and shove about the policies implemented within the framework of our democracy - whether higher taxes here, agricultural policies there or foreign policy somewhere else - is one thing. However, the current administration is implementing policies that are chipping away at the table on which the political jigsaw comes together.

When warned - whether by MPs, by the Lords, by the Newspapers, by the people, or by expert commissions - that their policies are inimical, they simply change the rhetoric, adjust the agenda, force the Parliamentary troops through the division lobbies, and carry on regardless.

Not acceptable. Current policies are imposing gross invasions of citizens’ personal lives. Maybe we should be turning the tables.

In other words - perhaps it needs to get personal.

Lamping Our Politicians

There’s also a glorious typo in the filename on Three Line Whip.:

lampp on our politicians.htm

So we can go after them like foxes, with Lurchers and a Shotgun, then. What a wonderful thought. Primarolo, Hewitt, Blair hunt, anyone?

But what to do with lamped politicians when we have caught them?

Who ate all the Pies?

This is my suggestion.

There is a film about the richest, most flavoursome paté in all France - that was only made but once a year for specially selected guests, and had a whole year to mature. The paté for next years was made from this year’s guests - like a haute cuisine never-ending soup.

I suggest that we take a leaf out of Sweeney-Todd’s book, and help our superannuated New Labour politicians “go into pies”, which could then grace the canteen of the House of Commons. It is only right that they should put something back in.

The only downside is that Alistair Darling will have nothing to worry about - he’ll be barred from the canteen by then.

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