The Wardman Wire

Politalk is a snarky and PG (I guess) rated interpretation of the week’s politics. This is the first edition from last week.

It is made by Gavin Whenman (script/voiceover) and Lee Griffin.
Very sharply observed, but still needs some polishing. To my mind it has too much content in the animation. This is the description:

First of a [...]

On a morning when I have read an article about an attempt to exempt MPs from Freedom of Information legislation, I’m featuring an animation about ID Cards. At a time of departure of another Home Secretary, it is also a paean to the memory of some previous holders of the job.

This animation is from Eclectech (or click on the pic). Not my musical style, but it makes the point.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB64XtfPRIQ[/video]

Here is Alistair Darling when he was Trade and Industry Secretary:

Many of the services once offered exclusively could now be done elsewhere - for example, people were now able to buy road tax online, 98% of new pensions were paid straight into people’s bank accounts, and TV licences could no longer be bought at post offices.

and again (same source)

“I want to maintain a national network, but I want to do it in a way that will last so we don’t keep coming back again and again to the underlying problems we have had in the past few years,” he said.

I see no reason to believe him. With the current “initiative”, they will have progressively closed more than 5000 branches in less than 10 years.

This is a Friday afternoon animation from Eclectech.co.uk (or click on the pick).

This is rude, but very, very witty and beautifully sung.

A send up of a certain famous coke advert.

Very marginally unsafe if your boss is Oliver Cromwell.

On a morning when I have read an article about an attempt to exempt MPs from Freedom of Information legislation, I’m featuring an animation about ID Cards. At a time of departure of another Home Secretary, it is also a paean to the memory of some previous holders of the job.

On a morning when I have read an article about an attempt to exempt MPs from Freedom of Information legislation, I’m featuring an animation about ID Cards. At a time of departure of another Home Secretary, it is also a paean to the memory of some previous holders of the job.