Regular readers know that I am vaguely interested in politics. I shall not, however, transmogrify into a political blogger. Rex Charon MP, my morally bankrupt brother from the unelectable wing of the Tory party (who crossed the floor when he saw the lie of the land), is quite capable of handling such political commentary as I wish to publish on my blog. Indeed, he did so only last night in the weekly ‘Postcard’.
I was astonished to see that Dr Who is voting Labour. Hat TIP: Man Widdicombe has a brief post on this – and Constantly Furious is blunt and to the point. Celebrities have exactly the same rights as the rest of us untutored souls to drone on about politics (Political bloggers, commentators tend, in the main, to know what they are on about even if we don’t always appreciate their stance) – but I do find it rather tedious when celebs (many of whom have invaded Twitter to tell us about their wonderful lives and their next show/book/pantomime) start to believe in their own immortality and iconographic status and ‘pronounce’. If Dr Who supports Labour is the best Labour can do by way of a poster campaign, we could be even deeper in the merde than we are already with the Watt’s revelations today that Gordon Brown behaves in a rather unusual way and the failed coup of last week. Still 5 months to go until the election. As the old saying goes... a week is a long time in politics…. and there are, thankfully, some clever and sane people in the Labour Party who could bring things round! (All comments relating to flying pigs are subject to ‘deletion’… possibly…. OK… they won’t be.)
I am not the first to consider that David Cameron, in the very limited context of Labour’s advert, may be a most suitable Davros. It has been a strange day… so I couldn’t resist faffing about with Photoshop again. The Daleks pictured are plastic ones. Cameron’s head is, of course, real…. in so far as anything is real when Photoshop comes into play.
PS… is the Labour poster for real? 🙂
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Update
Tom Harris MP – who is a serious MP and a well known political blogger – happens to be a major Dr Who fan. This is a matter of record and, who knows, may even be recorded in Hansard? If you go to Tom Harris’ twitter page… you will see what I mean on this matter.
Tom’s response:
and I just had to have this from a mate of mine…
But it’s not really Dr. Who declaring support for Cameron. David Tennant is now done with all that. Perhaps now he feels more free to be candid about these things.
But I did see him on a morning program or something a few years back, sitting next to Jacqui Smith and looking suitably appalled. He strikes me as a thoughtful guy who values thoughtful policies more than any particular political party.
Sir,
In all honesty, the only difference between the Conservatives and the Labour chappies, is that one likes his brown envelope payments made under Waterloo Bridge in the dead of the night. The other.. he likes his in backrooms of clandestine gay leather fetish clubs, just off of Soho.
I swear… if I see one more orange being sucked…. tut tut, the price we pay for operating in the cities of the auld enemy.
cheerio,
JB
PS. Catching the last flight down this evening, will be arriving Stansted in time for drinks at the Radisson.
I have ordered a bottle or two from the very top tier. I do like to stretch the trapezegirl to her limits.
Sir James…
The Radisson, you say…..? has something awful happened? No matter… happy to meet you there. I am bringing a chap who laughs like a horse….. apparently he may be a Cabinet Minister in the next government?
I shall use Google to find out where Stansted is…. I have heard it mentioned on the blogs.
See you then….. by the way… will that wonderfully curreal Egyptologist and belly dancer be accompanying you on this trip… I found her most interesting as she she swayed while she talked about Ramses II…
I do like a bit of Egyptology…
Best, as ever
Charon
Cathy… I am sure that DT is a thoughtful guy…