As British journalism teeters on the brink of anarchy, Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party, has just joined the culture circus. In 1969 Monty Python gave us the Parrot Sketch; ten years later Not the Nine O’Clock News matched it with “Not the Parrot Sketch.” It has taken some thirty years, but the Leader of the Opposition has trumped them both with the definitive Parrot Sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCem9EZb-YA&feature=related
Now if only we could persuade these zanies to dress like Syd Barrett, it might be fun to live in England again.
Thanks Robert. Very funny! But only in a tragi-comic sense. It’s the reduction of all politics from the banal level whereby politicians speak in a series of superficial soundbites to the Pythonesque level whereby politicians parrot the same superficial soundbite endlessly! Horribly hilarious …
I had heard that he gave the same answer to four consecutive questions, but I hadn’t actually seen it. Good heavens, it’s true.