Friday singalong

[venta]

All together now:

Ten cabinet ministers, sitting on wall...

Comments

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

And if one cabinet minister should accidentally redouble her efforts to speak up for Salford people as their Member of Parliament...

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

The people I feel sorry for are the 'Have I Got News For You' team. I mean, it's already been recorded yesterday. What are they going to do tonight? :-D

[venta.livejournal.com]

Er... I think I've missed whatever you're referring to. I mean, I know Blears was MP for Salford, but I'm not sure what speaking up she's been doing of late.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I've caught up now.

I thought you meant that she actually had been speaking up for Salford, and that that's what caused her to (have to) resign.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

It was the best ex-ministerial reason I could find.

[venta.livejournal.com]

HIGNFY Saturday Special ? If they could stop laughing long enough...

I'm quite looking forward to tonight's News Quiz.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Aaaaand another one. I think I'll get some popcorn. All we need now is Peter Snow with a resignometer.

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Awesome =:-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaand another (Caroline Flint).

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that's recorded on Thursday nights, too ...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know it is. I just suspect they'd have had quite a fun time with yesterday's news (Squirrel Nutkin's resignation, for a start) even if today's would have been better...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sadly no, it's not live. Although it would have been done yesterday and I think HIGNFY is Wednesday.

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

That was me on the deleted post, largely cos you'd answered my question the moment I saw it live.

I thought HIGNFY was thursdays. And since Purnell resigned just after 10pm on thursday, I'd be surprised if they were recording that late. I was lucky enough to go to some recordings of Whose Line Is It Anyway many years ago, and those were multi-hour affairs starting around 8ish, a bit like a West End show.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Good point. Especially as last night's cast, IIRC, included Sue Perkins and Andy Hamilton ...

I'm not going to be home in time to listen 'live', but the mp3 is my friend. [grin]

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I respectfully submit that the appropriate soundtrack is Another one bites the dust.

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

The final count appears to be six cabinet ministers, plus at least four junior ministers. Nowhere near enough... though I applaud James Purnell and Caroline Flint for telling it like it is, even if it does destroy their political careers. Alan Johnson has done no harm to his future prospects by behaving in a statesman-like manner, despite the temptation.

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

Being Home Sec will destroy his reputation in short order, exactly as the Ponce of Darkness (come on - Brown is just a poorly disguised zombie, Mandy is running the show on behalf of his chums in the EU Commission) intended.

Apart from finally daring to point out that Gorgon is a bell-end of epic proportions, all the resignation statements so far were full both of (apparent) pride in the 'achievements' of ZaNuLab and a boundlessly arrogant sense of entitlement. Hardly 'telling it like it is'. The only way any of them could make adequate amends for their crimes would be to take out the whole cabinet personally (with a stake frmly hammered through the heart of the Ponce of Darkness) and then set themselves on fire on live TV whilst begging for the nation's forgiveness.

At least the horrible bastards have given us some priceless entertainment this week. I'm loving this, have been high as a kite for days - and will be visiting my Granny tomorrow for her birthday, where we will toast the ongoing collapse of this despicable regime (and hopefully, the final obliteration of the Labour Party) together.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I applaud James Purnell and Caroline Flint for telling it like it is, even if it does destroy their political careers

In the same sense that when the rats jump overboard, they destroys their sailing careers.

Purnell and Flint are both minor Blairites (most of the big beasts having been slain already). Scrapping with Brown doesn't harm their political careers long term - they'll live or die by what happens after Labour loses the election more than by whether they stick around as ministers for the next 11 months.