(Doris Karloff - Hell mend her!)
Once, has-been MPs quietly faded into obscurity or spent their dotage dozing in the Lords. No more! Now, they want to be entertainers. The trend took off when Neil Hamilton and battleaxe Christine, became a sort of peripatetic Punch & Judy show. Next, came George 'The Cat' Galloway in his red leotard - possibly THE most embarrassing five minutes of TV ever, from which I am yet to recover - followed by Andrew Neil’s resident stooges, Abbott and Costello - sorry, Portillo - who surely have a future in panto once failed Labour leaderine Diane departs da House. The latest political comedians are Lib-Dem oddball, Lembit Opek - whose stand-up routine is, by all accounts, as cringeworthy as his turn on Come Dine With Me - and Strict(ly) virgin Ann Widdi-Waddle attempting to reinvent herself as our favourite cuddly aunt - like we’ve forgotten Doris Karloff’s toxic Tory horror show. Whither next? MP Alan Keen and defeated MP/ wife, Ann, camping it up, Kim and Aggie style, as ‘Mr & Mrs Expenses’, sifting through members’ claim forms on a Westminster special of How Clean is Your House?
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