(not satire – it’s Wallace vs Flashman)
So what was the Right’s response to Ed Miliband’s thoughtful speech on One Nation politics at the Labour Party conference? This –
‘Yes but he will never be PM because he still looks like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit, doesn’t he?”
Which of course – as he himself has admitted – he does.
But I’ve never understood why that’s supposed to be such a bad thing.
Wallace is a likeable working class eccentric who loves English cheese, Lancashire hotpot and a cup of tea. He loves his dog and is a loyal friend. He has a kindly nature, although is perhaps a little over-optimistic sometimes. He has a good heart and always means well.
His creator, Nick Park said the character is based on his own dad:
He’s a very self-contained figure. A very homely sort who doesn’t mind the odd adventure.
And the icons project had this to say about Wallace and Gromit:
They have done more to improve the image of the English world-wide than any officially appointed ambassadors.
Can’t see much wrong with all that, can you?
Or maybe some would prefer Flashman? A notorious public school bully who is finally expelled for drunkenness, an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, and gambles and boozes enthusiastically.
I know which I’d prefer for a Prime Minister. Do you?
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You have my condolences Tom – whilst I as a resident of Edinburgh, hope that particular choice will be a moot point by 2015…
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I have to say, IMHO for some reason Scottish Labour seem to be intent on committing electoral suicide up there.
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Gromit for President for Life!
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O Do for sure and it’s not Flasher either!
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TWO TOUGH QUESTIONS
Question 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids
already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally
retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the next question before looking at the answer for this one.
Question 2: It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote
counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates.
Candidate A: Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.
He’s had two Mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10
martinis a day.
Candidate B He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used
opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.
Candidate C He is a decorated war hero. He’s a vegetarian, doesn’t smoke, drinks an
occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.
Which of these candidates would be your choice? Decide first, no peeking,
then scroll down for the answer.
————————————————————————-
Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
And, by the way, the answer to the abortion question: If you said yes,
you just killed Beethoven.
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On a serious note, If the Scots vote for independence, (Which I can understand quite frankly) that removes a good few Scottish Labour seats from the current Westminster total.
I see a problem here….
We are sleep walking int a gerrymandering, north-south, divided appocalypse where the majority of southerners will be ruled by a minority Tory government and the people in the less densly populated North of England will be screaming for the Scottish border to be moved south!
I can see a new “Dane line” being drawn, this side of a civil war….
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Hi Tom Ed did OK anyway & is 3yrs out from election – maybe less. HE’s a lot more sincere than the posh bullingdon boy in Number10. regards FMcC
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Very good.
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As an English lefty I want Labour to win. But if I was Scottish I’d be sorely tempted to vote SNP.
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I’ve always thought Ed is OK as a leader – but then I’m so cynical about all politicians I place the bar very low.
For example, I always quite liked Gordon Brown.
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Indeed Tom, I thought Gordon Brown was a tremendous leader from a moral and intellectual point of view. But he looked awkward in the role of “game show host”.
This USA style of campaigning makes me want to vommit, Grommit, (did you see what I did there)…
We are in a malestrom, between Machiavellian Cameron, and his Faustian Pact with Clegg, whilst Ed B and Ed M are playing the Erasmus game, of poking and gauding the oposition whilst trying to gain as much popular and moral support as they can.
By exercising the checks and balances to command a majority come election time, by being electable, in touch and someone you can relate too, even if the “pledge” was a bit weak. But as you said in a previous blog, pledge now means, furniture polish and nothing else..
I think us lefties would be profoundly naive if we thought Cameron was’nt going to do a Margaret and somehow win a slim majority by winning a few middle class jobs and tax cuts in key marginals? Look at what Boris did in London?
There needs to be a credible “neo left” campaign to open up some space between negative conotations with the Unions and some recognition and identity with say, Modern Germany, where they do have a well rounded economy and people don’t have to go to food banks and they don’t spend collosal amounts on fighting wars (any more).
I share your blog, in the hope it finds it’s way into the hearts and minds of the young.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s when Thatcherism was a dirty word for the working classes, of whom I was destined to become a member, having not worked hard enough at school when schools were shit.
We need some “right on” humour to awaken the young, some protest songs and a bit of the spirit behind punk and the poll tax riots and the two tone culture, to bring people together.
How the power of todays youth can ever break free on a diet of x-factor and modern popular culture, I have no idea.
I blame the colapse of the working class, on the closing of all those pubs and the smoking ban.
Hey Ho.
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You’re right about GB and the US style of campaigning which didn’t suit him at all. Some sharp-suited young spin doctor obviously told him to smile more at one point. What a disaster. The thing I liked the most about GB was his grumpiness.
Oh – that gives me an idea for a blog post. So thanks.
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Cool! I look forward to reading the creation, hewn and tempered from the forge and the crucible of human consciousness that is, the internet! another, great British social invention and social institution under threat by conservatives!
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Prefer wallace to the cad and bounder flashman
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I’d prefer Dennis Skinner.
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