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Politics can be boring, frustrating, infuriating, even. Sometimes, though, it offers some comic relief.
This week's Comedy Newsletter is all about the oddities of UK and US politics.
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Politics can be all sorts of things. Grim, corrupt, sobering, tragic, frustrating, boring... Sometimes, though, it can be funny. Though it's likely to be an utterly bizarre kind of funny.
Take, for example, the upcoming birthday of the Queen of Britain. Last year, for the Diamond Jubilee, they made the poor dear travel the Thames, and she had to stand there, waving at people, in miserable weather. This year she's turning 90, and what have the same brilliant minds come up with? Clean for the Queen.
That's right. What organisers think the Queen really wants is for her people to tackle the problem of litter. Litter is a problem, of course. I don't deny that. Clean for the Queen is not going down well, however, and I am sure that you can understand why.
It's a bit like an April Fool's joke, isn't it? Show how much you love the Queen by participating in a patronising event doing work that we used to pay people for, but those people were laid off during budget cuts brought on by the Government's insistence on austerity. Right.
The funniest part of the farcical idea has to be the promotion pictures. MPs wearing garish t-shirts and goofy expressions, standing in front of a sign that's reminiscent of the 1939 Keep Calm and Carry On poster that was meant to boost morale in the face of the Second World War, holding a stick and some artfully crumpled paper that was brought in for the event, because you cannot expect the honourable gentlemen to pick up some real litter themselves: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/27/gove-and-johnson-strike-a-pose-i... The link is well worth checking out – it also features Boris Johnson dangling from a wire holding little flags in his hands.
Then, of course, we in the UK are watching the US elections in utter bafflement. That is not a slight at you, US citizens. We know that you're cool. It's just, in the UK, the most we really get in the run-up to an election is a leaflet shoved through our doors. We tried some television debates, but getting any answers out of our politicians is pretty much impossible. You, on the other hand, seem to have a very complicated process going on that a lot of us don't understand. And your candidates get right down and dirty with the other. Mud flying everywhere!
I don't know how you're supposed to choose between your candidates. I like for parties and candidates to set out their stalls and show us their wares. I want them to be able to tell potential voters what, exactly, their plans are. How, exactly, are they going to go about them. How much is it going to cost? Do they have back-up plans? In other words, why should I vote for them? Instead, what you're getting – and that's the same over here – is a whole lot of talk about why you shouldn't vote for others.
At least you're not being asked to Pick for the President, though. At least there is that.
You have to laugh, don't you? Otherwise you'd cry.
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