Well, me and Mrs Rod Liddle may have been cackling with glee on Friday morning, but Radio 4's Broadcasting House rightly reminded us of the need to please think of the politicians.
Paddy, Lord Hennessey and John Sergeant got out their hankies and encouraged us to commiserate with the poor, vulnerable ex-MPs who were dispossessed of their seats in the general election.
Won't somebody please think of Ed Balls!
Paddy O'Connell: Before you continue, we're here with Lord Adonis, who's not left the studio. This is a man who looks, doesn't he, very sad this morning. There's a human cost for the losers, Peter Hennessey?Peter Hennessey: Yes, it's very poignant, and wherever you stand in one's own political views figures who lose with dignity, like Ed Balls for example...John Sergeant: Yes, a very cruel night, and horrible to see people whose careers, lives, everything hung on this result.
Paddy O'Connell: And the Right and the Conservatives are gleeful...they're gleeful at that, and that's another thing...trend we must report on this morning.John Sergeant: Yes, they're gleeful and they have cause to feel. This is going to get them a tremendous position to fight all the difficulties they've got to fight, but if you look at the agenda they're facing...Peter Hennessey: Yes.John Sergeant: ...it's formidable.Peter Hennessey: The difficulties are extraordinary.
I have to say I wept uncontrollably at the idea of Lord Adonis looking very sad in the BH studio.
And as all three of them sadly reflected on the passing of Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg (though not Nigel Farage), I literally drowned in my own tears and required urgent mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to pull through. It was a very close shave, I can tell you.
And as all three of them sadly reflected on the passing of Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg (though not Nigel Farage), I literally drowned in my own tears and required urgent mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to pull through. It was a very close shave, I can tell you.
In other news, the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) is launching an appeal today to help scores of victims of the electoral earthquake which struck the UK on Thursda....
Hugh Sykes (interrupting): Whoa! Hold on, you can't say that! That's very insensitive. I was in China back in 1928 handing out signed photos of Lord Reith after the earthquake struck there. Apologise!
Sorry Hugh.
That's exactly the same thing I said Dimbley, Laura K. and Red Andy were doing. Groupthink? What groupthink? These people are so detached from reality it's sickening. Did they show that mine-closing footage from Poldark there as well?
ReplyDelete"And the Right and the Conservatives are gleeful...they're gleeful at that, and that's another thing...trend we must report on this morning."
ReplyDeleteAs always, I must ponder out loud as to what trends the BBC finds it must report upon, and those it often does not.
On account of there being a stonking great disconnect depending on what politics they drag in through the door with them, kicking and screaming.
Reasons to be gleeful, one, two, three....