Here is another satirical review by Red Brick Political Satirist and Comedy Critic, Rona Francks. This time Rona has returned from across the ’pond’ to the United Kingdom, so that she can ‘Lampoon’ two well-known political figures, both of whom have graduated from the London Westminster ‘House of Comedy.’
Having a comedy genius for a leader is not the reserve of the USA, although their president, Joe ‘Jobi’ Biden, is a ‘hard act to follow,’ despite this, the UK has given a good account of its own leadership comic genius, with two of its most recent prime ministers, the ‘Westminster Wise crackers,’ neither of whom was elected directly by the people, unlike Jobi Biden who won the most electoral votes, ever, from a campaign he ran from his basement.
Well, Joe, the UK has its own ‘comic duo’ whose own firebrand roadshow full of ‘horsey-horsey’ elitist humour, has been performing ‘sell-out’ shows at the World Economic Forum for some time now, but for the last several months they have been seen performing from the ‘despatch box’ in the House of Comedy (BBC image).
Above is an example of an audience waiting for the ‘Wise Crackers’ to ‘strut their stuff’ at the House of Comedy, having been warmed up through their heavily discounted food and drink tariffs.
I am of course, in the first instance, referring to WEF favourite, Liz Truss, who does not even qualify as having served a full calendar month in office. Liz accepted office on the 5th of September 2022 until the 24th of October of the same year, a mere 50 days in office and if you had not been paying attention because you blinked, you will have missed this.
The House of Comedy, a venue previously known as the House of Commons, a throwback to a time when an air of integrity pervaded within its walls, and where politicians represented their electorate, ensuring fairness and equality for all and if they did not perform, the electorate could use their votes to give their politicians ‘a boot up their arses’ and vote them out.
Today, it is Big Pharma who brazenly ‘calls the shots,’ literally, having its ‘pocket politicians’ whistling to their tune, promoting the ‘jab, jab, get your jab, it’s all free today,’ a monotonous mantra which is now in its third year at the ‘Top of the Popoilitics’ chart. I have yet to hear if Liz and Rishi will incorporate the ‘jab’ into their show, but there is plenty time yet, but for the time being they are, along with hundreds of MP’s on both sides of the Swamp (House of Commons), keeping shtum.
It seems the knives were out for Liz after she and her new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, introduced a budget no one seemed to like and when we say no one, we are not referring to the electorate, but the Bank of England and other major investors including the ones who manage pensions, and because of Liz and Kwasi’s budget, the pressure from bore down on them from all quarters and was too much for them both.
The Budget that never was, turned out to be the cause of them having to ‘budge over’ and make way for new blood, however, they both left office having been the shortest serving Prime Minister (50 days) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (38 days), a record that has marked them both down in history, although I am sure this is not how they would want to be remembered.
I cannot help but think that Kwasi Kwarteng’s head is still spinning, as he tries to get it around what had happened to him. Kwasi, who did not even get the chance to park his arse properly and warm his seat up, left it stone cold for the bloke who took over from him. Kwasi Kwarteng served as the Chancellor from 6th September 2022 until the 14th of October the following month, I mean, talk about not being given a chance!
Fortunately, Liz and Kwasi must have been wearing their stab-proof jackets to have left office in one piece, well, physically anyway, because a stab-proof vest is a front bench must, which former prime minister, Boris Johnson, will attest to, given that when he handed his jacket back in to stores, it was full of holes.
Here is an artist’s impression of the front and back stab-proof vest worn by Boris Borisovsky upon his departure from public office:
Sources are telling me that some of the holes in Boris’s jacket were still plugged up with the knives of those who finally ousted him, although these were put into the lost property store, unsurprisingly, they have yet to be claimed.
Enter, Rishi Sunak, the second half of this comedy duo who is now keeping the front bench green leather seat warm for the next Labour Party Election winning leader, because the darling electorate seem to be believe that changing the party running the country will initiate some sort of change; no harm in dreaming, I suppose, however, I digress.
Rishi Sunak uses a ‘booster cushion’ to sit on the front bench, given that he is 18 inches tall, despite having been given a pair of Cuban heeled boots, a gift he received from his fellow WEF attendee, the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, a young Fidel Castro lookalike.
Rishi Sunak, who has so far kept his head above water and maintained his premiership office since 25th of October 2022, has already spent more time in office than Liz, having completed 2 full calendar months so far, however, the ‘Ides of March’ are almost upon us, so he should be worried, especially with the likes of Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove sitting alongside him on the front bench giving him ’side-eyes,’ and looking up in envy at his shirt tails, err, so’s to speak.
In the meantime, having taken over from his predecessor, Liz, Rishi is performing the ‘solo’ lunchtime show on a Wednesday titled, ‘Prime Minister’s Questions.’ The PMQ’s has been one of the House’s longest running comedy shows, where the nation chuckles at the ‘futile’ efforts made by the opposition party leaders to get the PM to answer at least one question, which the PM never actually does.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64274755
The ‘Wise Crackers’ deny they are working in ‘Lock Step’ along with their allies supporting Ukraine fighting Russia, despite donating UK taxpayer money and hardware to Ukraine, having titled their current comedy, ‘Putin, and Our Part in His Downfall,’ ‘in which they ‘parody’ the UK in their opening skit, ‘The United kingdom is Not at War with Russia?’
The duo’s parody title, it is claimed, was inspired by Jobi Bidens opening line in his most recent USA tour, “The ‘USA is not fighting a proxy war against Russia.” Jobi then goes on to explain that not only will the USA be giving cash and weapons to Ukraine, but they will also be training Ukrainian troops on American soil, which is just comedy genius.
The comedy duo, Liz and Rishi, Here is another example where the UK government not being in a ‘proxy war’ with Russia:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-provide-1000-more-surface-to-air-missiles-to-ukraine
We hear there is a future tour in the pipeline for both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, the title of which will be: ‘Unelected and Proud,’ which is not a parody as such, because neither of these two comedians has won a UK General Election, which means that there is still time for them to be joined by another ‘unelected prime minister, should Rishi be toppled by the pulling of his shirt tails.
NOTE: We stress that any perceived link between our use of the word ‘pipeline’ and Liz Truss in the same sentence is purely coincidental, and is nothing to do with the following YouTube link where former MP, George Galloway, talks about something to do with ‘Nord Stream,’ a Russian natural gas pipeline running through the Baltic Sea supplying energy into Europe, which went ‘BANG’ and the supply was gone :
A word of advice prime minister, wear a protective jacket, tuck your shirt in and buckle up your belt, both of them!
Rona Francks, Political Satirist and Comedy Critic, for Red Brick.