Interestingly, the poster fails to mention what the event is for:
Award winning comedian and broadcaster Marcus Brigstocke will join forces with TV and radio comedy friends Russell Howard (Mock the Week), Alastair McGowan (The Big Impression), Mark Steele (NewsQuiz) and Mitch Benn (Now Show), Robin Ince (Nerdstock) and others for a one-off night of political mayhem at the Theatre Royal…I guess the chances of hearing a Brigstocke rant or Mitch Benn song taking the piss out of the Green Party on Radio 4 are pretty low, then.
Proceeds from the gig will be going towards funding Caroline Lucas' historic bid to become the UK's first Green MP.
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As I made clear on stage at the gig, my presence at the show DIDN'T entail an endorsement of either the Green Party in general or Ms. Lucas in particular; I try to keep a degree of scepticism towards all parties. My interest was in the fact that she's a representative of a minor party who actually stands a chance of winning a seat, which would give a welcome shot in the arm to the rather stagnant political process in the UK.
ReplyDeleteMoreover, she's a rep. of a minor party OTHER than the BNP, who seem to be the only minor party whose electoral chances the news media seem to be interested in "bigging up" at the moment.
I'm worried by the prevailing wisdom that the only alternative to the Same Old Same Old currently available to the electorate is a bunch of loathsome racist gangsters, and a Green Party seat would go a long way to challenging that notion (and if you think the fact I'm willing to describe the BNP as a bunch of loathsome racist gangsters marks me out as some sort of irredeemable Trotskyist, well, that says more about your own politics than mine).
As it happens I HAVE done songs sending up the Greens (good to see the Beeb's critics doing their usual meticulous and objective research) and if Marcus has never ranted about them (although I suspect he may have) it's because he's mainly interested in people abusing positions of power and the Greens have never BEEN in a position of power. Not much point.
Anyway, keep it up. Always nice to be talked about.
Mitch Benn