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| Political Satirist Rory Bremner and former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown |
My own take on this important subject is that the age of British political satire is not dead, but perhaps still in recession across much of England, yet apparently revived by the Scottish question where old foes have joined forces but perhaps not for long (note body language of Messers Bremner and Brown in the above picture, which looks as if it could have been taken just outside the host establishment's convenience).
Returning to the Coalition - admittedly a lacklustre affair filled with bland politicians - it is certainly true that much of the satirical entertainment potential has been off centre stage (some of it now residing at Her Majesty's Pleasure in South East London's Belmarsh Prison). In fact, given the fate of Prime Minister David Cameron's former spin doctor Andy Coulson, and the reliance of recent political satire on the politics of spin, it is perhaps hardly surprising that Southern Britain should now be lingering in a period of satirical austerity, occasionally punctuated by the jolly antics of the Mayor of London. Yet Britons south of the border have surely not lost their appetite for political satire: one good reason why the Lib-Con Government is likely to be removed from office next year.
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