Endorsed by the Slag Brothers
Chris Bryant, the UK’s Minister of State for Europe, to BBC Newsnight, on the issue of the Presidency of the European Union:
Dastardly and Muttley, William Hague and Mark Francois, can wander around trying to do your Wacky Races little wheezes but the truth of the matter is, all that matters here is what delivers for Britain.
After which, the Daily Mail compared Bryant to Penelope Pitstop.
What’s endearing about this, apart from the fact that it’s genuine British electoral gibberish, arguably the finest in the world, is that so many people an ocean away are able to pick up on a reference to an American cartoon show that ran for only seventeen episodes forty years ago. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, inventors of the television rerun, surely are beaming from their (separate) places in the sun.
