Billy Bragg for P.M

Am hoping to go see him doing his towns show in my local town soon - unfortunately he doesn't know my local town is so chavvy that no-one listens to the radio 4 show and the theatre is so new it has no 'regulars' - I only read the p-rogramme because one f my kids brought it home from school. I went online to get tickets and was shocked to discover only about 6 tickets sold in the whole theatre and they seemed to be odd seats at the edges so probably crew.

If you hear it on the radio it will be just me and dh cackling in the centre front row. :)

No, no, no, what are you all thinking? It has to be Mark Steele. Sexy, clever and funny as well.

No, no, no, what are you all thinking? It has to be Mark Steele. Sexy, clever and funny as well.

Enough voters to do the damage. And an egotistical Liberal Democrat leader who thought only of power, ie Nick Clegg.

Not all voters - their vote has fallen.

I think Billy Bragg has been brought and sold by the BBC. And I also think that Cameron is doing what his voters last time want. He is removing the role of the State, and he is using the guize of cutting the deficit to achieve this.

Go Laurie.

You won't be making the LibDems mistake again, will you, at least...

I also love Mark Thomas and David Mitchell.

Though Daves as embarrassed as I am at the lib-dems who we both voted for last time.

He's not a champagne socialist. He's the fucking dogs so he is.

Go on you tube or his website to see him arguing on the streets with the bnp cunt in barking when Billy and his campaign got rid if them by door to door campaigning.

He puts his arse into it but in order to know that you'd have to look for the evidence cos he's not a boaster.

He is as far from 'politics lite' as is possible to be.

Mark Thomas that guy is a fucking star he would be great as PM, they really need to give him a new series on C4.

I knew a champagne socialist once, guy was nuts, total Citizen Smith and a landlord with 2 properties and 2 boats, I really don't think he understood what Socialism is, he just thought unions and better working conditions.

I should be PM, I'll start my party right now, it's called the blow it out your arse party, I will go around the world to the G20 etc and tell everyone else to blow it out their arse, it will be like UKIP only on a global scale.

Eddie Izzard for P.M.

Karl Pilkington as Foreign Secretary

Er, moondog...you are sending me pictures of Billy Bragg's house, why? said I liked him, not I wished to stalk him.

I am not really clear what you are trying to prove. So, he lives in a big house. And...your point is?

Just for you B&B. Work on your matching skills. I believe it is covered in EYFS.

moondog - good attempt to pretend you knew the Daily Mash wasn't real all along.

We believe you, honest.

Oh yes, I'd vote for Sandy if the sleb route beomes unaviodable.

Althpugh fear the Kardishan woman would get more votes. Based on how she dominates the media....for reasons I have yet to understand.

Ooh, mark Thomas - is this turning into a right-on comedians who we also fancy thread?

Good criteria for becoming PM - must be intelligent, decent, wide life experience - oh, and good sense of humour and hence appealing to the laydees.

fastweb, Bill Bailey is ace, and his Billy Bragg impression spookily accurate - but don't think he's really v interested in running the world, sadly. Agree David Mitchell or Charlie Brooker might be good. As for women, no reason to believe she'd be interested, and she's Danish, but while we're on comedians, can we have Sandy Toksvig? She's so nice.

the daily mash is all made up moondog....

(she knows that really though - right?)

i love Billy.
and i love Mark Thomas.

I luuuuuurvee reeling you in B&B.
It works every damned time.

moondog - I'm wiping my eyes, in case the words on the page change, but still can't get away from the fact that you appear to be the only person ever with sufficient front to attempt to quote The Daily Mash as a serious news source.

Please reassure me - you do know IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A PISSTAKE, DON'T YOU?

moondog - in that one one post you have destroyed whatever remaining shred of credibility you once had. That post really takes the

I have a problem with the whole champagne socialist tag, personally - a made-up stick by the right with which to beat the left.

I am not socialist because I dream of us all living in squalor together - I am socialist because i would like everybody to live in a mansion or equivalent.

There is nothing inherent in socialism which says life must or should be miserable.

as I've never heard of the rule that states "thou must live in a grubby bedsit in London

Shades of grey rather than black and white, innit.

S'like people tend to see the hypocrisy of things like...being completely random here...but taking advantage of tax loop holes by changing your reisdency elsewhere, and flying you hat places first class....while bemoaning poverty and exhorting other people with far far less to make far far larger sacrifices in relative terms.

So BB in a ice home in a nice area, probably wouldn't get people's goats.

But a massive mansion, or an opulant (rather than merely quite comfortable) lifestyle stands in stark contrast with personal values stated.

Basically a message sounds like "do as I say, not do as I do" if you stick to talking the talk, but not walking the walk.

And that whiffs a little of hypocrisy, which doesn't inspire confidence.

No!

As much as I love(d) Billy, I want Bill Bailey for PM.

I think my copy of the MN Socialist Rulebook must have got lost in the post, as I've never heard of the rule that states "thou must live in a grubby bedsit in London."

I seem to remember him saying that he would withold his taxes and risk jail if RBS staff received their bonuses. It struck me as particularly juvenile at the time, but I haven't heard anything about it since...assume he's in prison for his principles right now is he?