It’s like goldy & bronzy, only it’s made of iron
The Guardian: Blunkett play to get legal scrutiny
Tonight’s opening performance of Who’s the Daddy, a satirical farce based on the David Blunkett affair, will attract more than just the usual Islington theatre-going crowd.
In a case of life imitating art, a team of lawyers acting for Mr Blunkett is also expected to be in attendance in order to run a rule over the play before possible legal action against its writers and producers.
So far, so schadenfraude - but it gets better:
They are threatening to stop the play on the basis that it breaches the right to privacy of Mr Blunkett’s child with Ms Quinn and infringes his right to a family life under the 1998 Human Rights Act.
That’s right. Dave the Rave wants to use the Human Rights Act to stop a satirical play about him putting his dingle dangle in a married lady’s tuppence. All this from the man who’s done more to undermine human rights in the UK in the last ten years than anyone else. But then I suppose asylum seekers, for example, have a lower expectation from life than a humourless cry-baby authoritarian with a skewed (but adequately renumerated) morality and therefore have little use for human rights legislation.
I hope a judge tells this airy-fairy liberal just where he can shove his human rights.
Posted on July 14th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
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In the interests of fairness, while Blunkett was being his usual belligerent self over the thing, the inimitable member of parliament for Henley merely professed his stoicism and ataraxia about the issue and laughed it off.
quoth those chaps who made it:
“Fortunately, Boris’s reaction to the play has been remarkably good humoured. He would have preferred us not to have written it, obviously, but now that it’s going ahead he’s decided to treat it as a bit of a lark.”
“wants to use the Human Rights Act to stop a satirical play about him putting his dingle dangle in a married lady’s tuppence”
Talk about absolute power……. lucky bastard.
It’s not like he’s even able to see the bloody thing!