TV impressionist Rory Bremner says he’s he is struggling to find much to laugh about in British politics.
He has poked fun at government ministers since breaking through in the mid-80s – but is dismayed by the current crop. “I look back at 2012, with the Olympics, as a high point,” he said.
“The vision of Britain that Danny Boyle created in the opening ceremony – embracing the health service, industrial revolution, inventions and engineering, our sense of humour – was one I felt I could be proud of. The last 10 or 11 years since then, it’s pretty much disintegrated and I feel dismayed by that.
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“The level to which politicians have become so shameless – we see it in Donald Trump, we saw it with Boris Johnson and Partygate, and now we have a Conservative party and leader who after 13 years is saying vote for me and get change. What?
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“Where have you been for the last 13 years?” The comic, added: “They’re trying to pull an extraordinary trick and they already pulled one in convincing people that folk like Johnson and Jacob Rees-mogg, who are Etonian to the core, were actually on the side of the people against the terrible Liberal elite.
“What’s happened to Britain in the past 10 years, I think of it as ABC – Austerity, Brexit, and I’ll let you decide what or who the C stands for.”
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