Friday, February 08, 2008
Andy Who?
Apparently this little chap is our Culture Secretary. Am I the only person to have noticed that on last night's Question Time he was replaced by a rather badly painted ventriloquist's dummy? You could tell from the staring eyes with extravagant paint-on lashes that recalled the heyday of Biba - oh and the fact that he hadn't a clue about any of the questions, especially those that came within his ministerial brief. It was quite alarming really - but then Question Time often is, especially when thrown such bloody red meat as Rowan Williams's remarks on Sharia.
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You can see the programme, I believe, here...
ReplyDeleteNige, we can't seem to agree about anything to do with art. I thought he made a perfectly painted dummy, else, I expect, the comparison would not have come to mind.
ReplyDelete...also a hint of clockwork orange about the eyes.
Apparently the little twerp is the new culture secretary. Significantly the audience in Liverpool seemed to respond to the nice Tory Chris Grayling, rather than to either the alien, the bizarrely dressed liberal, or snappy little Chakratbati- clearly a Dimbelby favourite since she's always on- with her Diana like upward glances and lawyer cant. Both she and the culture secretary also have strange ears. Was the fourth guest totally pissed? He looked it. Off to catch a rat now.
ReplyDeleteThat was Duncan Ballantyne the inventor of the steam powered trouser press and water cress millionaire! You lot are silly. Did you notice how the dummy thing kept saying what Labour Party policy is? Why did he do that if no one had asked him?
ReplyDeletesurely you mean Lagour Carty Colicy?
ReplyDeletethere's some outtakes on youtube where Gordon Brown simultaneously drinks from a glass of water.
I'd like to make a complaint about the comment preceding this one - I laughed so much that I inhaled the coffee I was drinking and now I feel sick.
ReplyDeleteCaptainB: Delete the little and rename her Snappy Chakratbati. Poor Andy - he's a nice enough chap but a real lightweight. With Milliband, Balls, Alexander and Burnham, it feels like we've got the National Union of Students running the country.
ReplyDeleteI actually beginning to think that the country is being run by the Children's Parliament....
ReplyDeleteWas the little fellow wearing eye liner and/or mascara? Is he right in at the start of a trend of men in serious positions wearing make up?
ReplyDeleteIs that why he's 'culture' secretary?
Does anyone agree that a lot of men in the public eye would do us all a favour if they started wearing make up.