Iimpressionist/comedian Rory Bremner tells us in the Sunday Times that…
‘I’m coming for you Cameron’
He went on to say that…
‘The Coalition has got away with colossal injustice’
He worries about Nigel Farage and the dark side of Boris Johnson…and yet he has nothing to say, in the interview at least, about Labour….sure he mocked ‘New Labour’ long ago…but was that more about their presentation (ala Alastair Campbell) rather than their policies? It seems he has deep concerns about the Coaliton’s policies…and he is prepared to voice those concerns using his one-off comedy show…on the BBC….‘Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report’.
Apparently…
With a mixture of sketches, stand-up, songs and archive, Rory and the team take on the combined might of Cameron, Clegg and Miliband... and also Nigel Farage.
Perhaps he will do a hatchet job on Miliband’s policies as well…..just as the Now Show does week in week out….or not.
Here they concentrate on Miliband’s presentation not his policies…
Is this appropriate in the run up to an election……a show from someone who obviously has some issues with the Coalition’s policies and looks set to attack them?
As I said appearances count and this might give the appearance of anti-Coalition tendencies at the BBC…although a ‘one-off’ how many more such ‘one-offs’ will we be treated to in the next 94 days and counting?
Does look funny though…Tuesday night, BBC2 10 pm.
since when has that multi millionaire middle class leftie bore rory bremmer been a politacal commentator,ever since his career as a failed comedian has gone into the doldrums because the bbc and co dont put him on there left wing comedy showcases anymore he seems to of decided that he is an expert on politicss,he pops up everywhere even on channel 4 spouting out out his left wing opinions,who cares what you think rory bremmer,your just a has been looking to be in the limelight again,not a chance bubba.
I really don’t understand these middle class Left wingers that seem to inhabit the BBC etc. their solution to everything is to throw other people’s money (ie the tax payers) at it. But they send their children to either carefully selected State schools where the children of similar parents send theirs (where Ed went springs to mind) or they send them private (Diane Abbott) with carefully practiced excuses. The same applies to the health as when Jenny Murray had her carefully honed excuses of why she used private health care. But no matter how much money is thrown at them there is a large number of people that would not change. Give there children educational maintenance grants and the proportion that used them to buy books compared to cigarettes and weed is small. Yet the Socialist says it is worth so many wasting the money is worth it for the one that does not. But it is that attitude that left this country broke and those trendy socialists children and grandchildren with the bill.
… or they send them private (Diane Abbott) with carefully practiced excuses.
Add the following to the list of grammar school hypocrites:
Cherie Blair
Harriet Harman
Emily Thornberry
There are strict rules about programs with political content in the 5(?) week run-up to a general election, but before that, pretty much anything goes.
In the 2010 election, immigration (as usual) was a major issue. Our old friend Evan Davis did a short “one-off” series about immigration, which was predictably entirely one-sided, with no pretence of balance whatsoever. Basically, immigration was entirely wonderful we were told, and labour should not be criticised in any way.
Five weeks before a general election, the vast majority of people have made their mind up about who to vote for. It is only 12 months prior that peoples minds are open to influence.
Tge Beeb are well ware of it, and exploit it ruthlessly.
I have always found that Rory Bremner was fairly on the centre ground of politics, if anything right-of-centre. He was the first person to have a go at Tony Blair in about 1998 and very effectively when half the nation still believed TCB walked on water. Rory Bremner has been off the BBC because of his politics not despite them.
As evidenced in his quotes above, obviously.
Still, let’s not prejudge his show despite ‘The Coalition has got away with colossal injustice’ and instead look forward to him giving hapless, hopeless, headless Ed a right good skewering not to mention the Greens, who yesterday had to abandon some more of their student union eco-Marxist policies.
Yes he’s bound to because, you know, the BBC has to be so balanced doesn’t it?
Half the nation believed Blair could walk on water?
When was that? That Blair was a charlatan and a grade A **** was obvious to anyone over ten, who was not born with a hammer and sickle tattoo on their forehead, when he was elected “leader” of the BLP.
I hate to break it to you but Blair did not get anywhere near half the electorates’ vote and was only close to half the votes of those who bothered to vote. 71% voted and Blair got 43% of that 71% which is 31% of the vote. In fact he got fewer votes than John Major did in 1992 by about half a million. As time went on he got a smaller proportion of vote.
So Bliar was not as popular as he would like you to think.
More clever than funny.
Can`t imagine that he`ll be the same without the gravitas of John Fortune either.
That said, the Coalition IS shit…but if he doesn`t kick the useless weaselly Labour types equally, then he`s a stooge.
Why dare they not find the likes of Burnham and Prescott funny-the rest of us mock and despise them when we bother our arses over such nematoadies.
Vote UKIP.
It’s no accident that there has been such an increase in leftist ‘noise’ on the interWeb ,in this pre-election period.
It’s the same on all the more intelligent blogs- lots of postings by peviously unknown leftist Dave Sparts based on emotion ,reverse snobbery and perversity (are you listening Scott? et al) .
Has the Word gone out from Liebore Central to drown out all opposing views with a wall of leftist Drivel???
Doesn’t matter though, we’re not as easily convinced as we once were-the Breach with the LibLabCon is massive and unbridgeable now .
Bring on the Election .
Well, if Rory wants to keep taxpayers cash rolling in then he knows the best thing he can do is make fun of Cameron and Farage and, of course, Thatcher.
Poking holes in Liebour policies is like saying “I never want to appear on the BBC again.”
Seems many of those in positions of priviledge use faux concern for the poor and disadvantaged (aka “socialism”) to wash away any guilt or criticism of their wealth and advantage. Bremner is no different from the upper echelons of the BBC and entertainment industry in that respect.
He is a talented mimic and a ferociously quick-thinker, but at the end of the day, entertainment is all about supply and demand. He knows what the BBC demand, he supplies it. I don’t think his personal convictions, or whatever he claims they are, come into it.
The mimic, like Lenny Henry, are a bit time-expired. He can mock Nigel Farage all he likes, do him as a black and white minstrel, whatever, none of it matters. The issues we face are a lot more serious than that. For once, comedians have very little to offer. Not that the partisan BBC will see it that way – just another opportunity to push for a Labour government, to protect their priviledge, courtesy of the license fee.
Did anyone seriously expect anything other than another dose of biased liberal left tripe from a combination of Bremner and the BBC? He is another so called comic who was once quite funny but is now well past his sell by date. Anyway it wouldn’t have mattered if he was the funniest show in town and had us all weeping with laughter, he couldn’t have come close to matching Ed and the joke of his inept attempt to become PM. In fact come to think of it Ed as PM is the funniest thing I have heard in ages. But God help us all if by some strange quirk of fate he does enter No 10.
Clapped out ,tired hasbeen of a comedian about as funny as watching
a boil develop! He seems to be morphing into a clone of Paddy Ashdown by the day.
Time for this Bremner to get out his comfort zone and give us Dennis Skinner or Nicol Sturgeon.
Who is, or was, St Urgeon? One of those ones you don’t hear about so much, like St Mungo?
He doesn’t like the Coalition . He thinks he can do better . Why doesn’t he stand for Parliament then ?