COMEDIAN FOR PM? AT LEAST THEY WOULD TELL IT LIKE IT IS
THE people of Ukraine are so fed up with their politicians that a comedian is front runner in the Presidential elections.
My friend Kev said: “That’s nothing new. We’ve had comedians as Prime Ministers for years.”
Forty four candidates have put themselves forward for the vote at the end of March, including the current president and a past prime minister, but a TV comic is growing in popularity in a contest that is lowering apathy to new levels.
Which, to be fair, is a bit like the UK where the populace is fed up of politicians who continue to play party and ego politics over Brexit despite the potential cost to the nation.
Time we had a proper comedian with common sense standing for the top job at the next elections. How about Danny
Dyer, the common man with the royal ancestry? He went viral when he laid into David Cameron for abandoning Britain after the Brexit vote. ”Where is he? He’s in Europe, in Nice, with his trotters up. Where is the geezer?”
Dyer has views on life and politics to which everyone can relate. About Trump: “Is it me or is this geezer completely off his strange-looking nut?” On modern pubs: “You’re going for a drink and a laugh with your mates. You don’t need a six-course Thai menu and an interior by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.”
On food and drink: “If we didn’t have thumbs we could never enjoy eating a sandwich” and “Currently sucking the life out of a Whisky sour… or is it the other way round? I can never remember.”
And the clincher: “I don’t know that much about politics but then I don’t think any politician knows that much about politics, either.”
Come the next election, come the people’s revolution. Vote Dyer.