[Comedy Politics]

[davywavy]

Today, I was going to post something jokey, a bit humourous, a touch of levity for the day. However, there are times when events overtake me an are more comical than I could ever manage. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged people to 'stop wasting food' in an effort to reduce social and environmental costs.
In the light of the fact that the former Deputy Prime Minister just spent the last ten years gorging himself and then throwing up, I found the inherent ridiculousness of this suggestion to be so funny that I laughed hard enough to give myself a nosebleed.
Indeed, there are some things you just can't satirise.

Comments

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Didn't Brown promise an election back in the day? What happened to that?

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

Did you see the list of what they had to eat

The menus in full

Lunch

White asparagus and truffle soup

Kegani crab almond oil foam and green olive tapenade

Supreme of chicken served with stuffed thigh, nuts and orange savoury with beetroot foam

Special cheese selection with half-dried fruits

Peach compote, ice cream and raspberry coulis

Dinner

Corn-stuffed caviar

Smoked salmon and sea urchin "pain surprise" style

Hot onion tart

Winter lily bulb and summer savoury

Folding fan modelled tray decorated with bamboo grasses

including

Kelp-flavoured cold Kyoto beef "shabu-shabu", asparagus dressed with sesame cream

Diced fatty flesh of tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce and Japanese herb "shiso"

Boiled clam, tomato, "shiso" in jellied clear soup of clam

Water shield and pickled conger dressed with vinegar soy sauce

Boiled prawn with jellied tosazu vinegar

Grilled eel rolled around burdock strip

Sweet potato

Fried and seasoned Goby with soy sauce and sugar

Hairy Crab "Kegani" bisque soup

Salt-grilled bighand thornyhead with vinegary water pepper sauce

Milk fed "shiranuka" lamb flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard

Roasted lamb and cepes and black truffle with emulsion sauce of lamb's stock and pine seed oil

Special cheese selection, lavender honey and caramelised nuts

G8 fantasy dessert

Coffee served with candied fruits and vegetables

Wine list

Le Reve grand cru champagne

Japanese saki

Corton Charlemagne 2005

Chateau Latour burgundy

Ridge California Monte Bello 1997

Tokaji Essencia 1999 from Hungary

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Back last September, when he would have won, he made some noises about an election to give him a mandate. The Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties, aware that he would win, promptly started talking big about how Brown would lose and they were looking forward to forming a government, etc.
This played upon a key facet of Browns personality - he's only confident when he's absolutely certain he'll win; he's shied away from every competitive judgement of his abilities ever, from Blair facing him down over Labour leadership in 1994 onwards and the bravado of the other parties convinced him. He backed down and didn't call an election (which, like I say, even the most gung-ho non-Labour enthusiast said he'd win) leaving himself looking like a coward and a fool. Apparently the Conservative and LibDem party leaderships didn't stop laughing for a couple of months.
Subsequently he has fallen from a commanding lead in the opinion polls to the lowest popularity of any Prime Minister since opinion polling began.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I think I'll write to the government. It's something to do on a slow day.

I hope they got doggie bags.

[(Anonymous)]

They could do their bit by dropping the leftovers off in Darfur.

G8 fantasy dessert my arsehole.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*shakes head*

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

sea urchin "pain surprise"
They left the spikes in? >:o) I hope some of them choke on the spikes...

coffee with vegetables? What are they thinking?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Brown cleared his plate?

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

candied vegetables - why oh why would anyone ever want to eat candied vegetables?

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

Sorry, too busy contemplating 'beetroot foam'.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

You could also write for the government:

"The voice of the voters, ladies and gentlemen, has spoken loudly and clearly. There is no shirking now. I am to drink this bottle of 1914 Pernod Fils and smoke these cognac-soaked Gurkha cigars. As painful as it may be, the writing is on the wall and there's no going back. Many others in my position could not muster the political will. But I promise, by God, that I shall not hesitate, shall not buckle or retreat, but shall resolutely carry forward with this difficult task, indeed even if I then had to drink a full cup of premium Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee topped with whipped cream and those tiny little decorative spherical things with the French name."

[(Anonymous)]

David has experience of something similar.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Good point. Very, very good point.

Frankly, Gordo can go stuff himself. People don't waste food deliberately - they don't buy food with the idea of chucking it out. He's a patronising git.