Three Things To Watch Before The Election, And Six Things To Read
The General Election of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, that is.
Tomorrow, Britain goes to the polls. Not for the first time. But first, kick back with Dennis Potter in 1965, Stand Up Nigel Barton and then Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton, which ran the week after. It remains one of the greatest down-to-earth political satires.
Jump to the early eighties for A Very British Coup, about a left-wing firebrand party elected and how they deal with the Deep State as it then wasn’t called.
And then onwards to the mid-nineties, watch the 1997 General Election with Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynam, David Schneider, Steve Coogan as Alan Patridge and Sally Phillips as the “whore in a helicopter” ready to start the first scandal of the new Parliament, in the Election Night Armistice, only three hours long. I was in the studio audience for this. Can’t embed this one but the link works…
Oh, and maybe catch up with what I’ve been posting about the election on Bleeding Cool this week:
One Day To The British General Election – A Junior House Of Commons?
Two Days To The British General Election – Anyone Fancy A Quick One?
Three Days To British General Election- Keir Starmer, Once And Future
Four Days To The British General Election- The Time I Met Nigel Farage
Five Days To The British General Election, Let's Talk Rishi Sunak
