When I’m Prime Minister #1
My administration will hit the ground running…
Day 1: If you vote for a political party because a dead soap opera character told you to, you will lose your vote. And your prefrontal cortex.
Posted on May 16th, 2008 at 9:04am under Miscellaneous misanthropy, UK politics
i My administration will hit the ground running…
Of course, in Brown’s case, this is precisely what a cartoon character does when it runs over the edge of a cliff…
I remember Ken Barlow coming out in support of Neil Hamilton in 1997 (vs Hutch from Starsky and Hutch, who supported Martin Bell). I don’t understand why Hamilton lost, since Ken Barlow is certainly not boring.
Well, as we’ve seen with Cherie Blair’s “poor upbringing” – if you (in this case Tony Booth) play a working-class person on the telly, you must be a bona fide, hard done by, horny handed son or daughter of toil. Mustn’t you?
Similar thing worked for Ronald Reagan, being a war hero and everything.