[politics] When the Plot Thickens Turn to the Beano — another parliamentary sketch from Simon Hoggart … ‘David Atkinson, the Tory member for Bournemouth East, reminded us that the former Europe minister Keith Vaz had declared that the European charter of fundamental rights would have no more legal significance than a copy of the Beano. At which he waved a copy of the Beano at us, as if we were too stupid to know to what he referred. Denis MacShane, the present European minister, drifted off down memory lane, to childhood days curled up with Dennis the Menace and Desperate Dan. (Did you know that DD’s home in the wild west town of Cactusville was actually modelled on Dundee?) You might think it pathetic that grown men should wave comics at each other in the course of a debate. But that, I fear, is politics as well.’
Another Simon Hoggart Parliamentary Sketch
This entry was posted on Thursday, October 16th, 2003 at 8:20 am and is filed under Politics, Simon Hoggart.
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