Sandi Thom’s column: Taking stock of UK politics
We need revolution to sort out Parliament
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WHERE’S Oliver Cromwell when you need him to usurp the throne?
Where’s Guy Fawkes when you need Parliament razed to the ground?
I’d settle for a military coup perpetrated by a battle-scarred, cigar-chomping general, spitting napalm as he tanks along Downing Street to find out just how hard that lone police constable sentry really is.
Where are our revolutionary heroes? Where is Che or Spartacus to lead the insurrection?
Surely there’s a clause in our constitution that states the people can oust their leader if he’s lost his grip?
Is there such a precedent in our history, people? I appeal to those more learned than I to make it known.
Brown’s Energiser Bunny has beaten its last drum – time to write the memoirs, methinks.
Can we not eject the entire Government and install Jeremy Clarkson as interim PM for a year?
I think the entire country would be fine with that.
Joanna Lumley as Chancellor and the cast of Eastenders filling the rest of the top jobs – Peggy Mitchell being a shoe-in for defence, Grant as foreign secretary and Dot in the health dept.
I’ve just had a peach of an idea how to kick-start the economy.
I want all the politicians exposed as cheap weasels in recent weeks, assembled outside Parliament in stocks and for a fiver a go you can throw whatever you want at them. Genius, right?
The country’s coffers would, in a matter of weeks, be overflowing with cash as Britons from across the land make the pilgrimage to Westminster.
They could smear copious amounts of orange sauce on Sir Peter Viggers of duck house fame or submerge the head of Douglas Hogg in his own moat.
That business idea is for free by the way Gordon; no peerage required just yet, Sugar.
Why don’t you use the money you’ll make and help van manufacturer LDV out of trouble?
Billions given over to banks and you can’t find another £50 million to safeguard a company that practically employs a whole town, come on!
I’m so bored with the Labour party talking tough about winning the next election and who the right person is to lead them to victory.
Labour don’t have a chance of winning the next General Election.
The Labour Party is finished – they won’t even be the shadow Government after the next election.
I have more chance of being maid of honour at Lily Allen’s wedding than this shambolic, tired and corrupt Government has of hanging on to power.
Changing the party leader for a year isn’t going to change one thing about how the party is now perceived.
When did we start putting people in power without proper elections anyway?
What are we ... Americans?
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