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What sketch writers see

by Whaleoil on January 1, 2012

I love this great quote from Michael Deacon who is a parliamentary sketch writer for The Daily Telegraph.

The great privilege of the job is that, sitting in the press gallery (located a few feet above the Speaker’s chair), you see all sorts of small but instructive details that don’t make it into news reports. News reports have to be solemn, which means it’s outside their remit to mention that Chief Warden Balls spends half his time in the chamber silently mouthing a single line over and over at George Osborne – usually “So out of touch” or “Such a charlatan”. Obviously the aim of the tactic is to unsettle the Chancellor, although its chief effect is to make Mr Balls look like someone you’d edge away from in a bus shelter.

Heh, we have similar tosspots who do this here. Watch parliament for a while and you can see them doing it. Annette King was one of the worst..her favourite epithet for National MPs is “Tory Scumbag”.

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  • TheRobberDog

    LMFAOROTF!!

  • Anonymous

    “Tory scumbag”?  There’s an easy reply to that.
    “Labour thieves.”  As in “tax thieves”. 
    Tax and spend, tax and spend. Labour knows nothing else.  
    Fiscal restraint is unknown to them. 

  • Brian Smaller

    “Tory Scumbag” shows how out of touch that woman is. This is 21st C not the early 20th.  national are so far left that Tory hardly describes anyone in their party now.  She would be better mouthing “Hide the Swiss ball, Darren”

    • Mike

      Agree. The National Party of today has all but abandoned it’s founding principals. It is so popular today because it’s basically the same as the Labour Party but without the nastiness and in-fighting.

  • Gazzaw

    Ha ha. Let’s watch Darien Fenton in her highly visible position right behind Shearer. She doesn’t appear to be short of an epithet or two. Could be fun particularly if one or two of the Nats play to her.