Children Given Human Right to have babies under Labour Government

From the Daily Mail

Every child in the country will be give a 'human right to have babies' if Labour wins the next election, the party's deputy leader Harriet Harman has announced.

The Labour shadow culture secretary said the policy would be as important as Tony Blair's 'big bold' move to scrap museum entry fees in 1997 - which costs around £45million a year.

She said all children had a 'right' to have babies.

Miss Harman told Total Politics magazine: 'What we’re determined to do is have a big, bold creative offer of this time.

'When you see it as a human right, important for community identity or economic growth, it’s all of those things.' 

She added: 'It won’t be based on people actually having babies, seeing as how half the population don't have a womb, which is no-one's fault, not even the Tories, but it will be based on our commitment to every child having a right to have one'.

Go Home Vans

and take your otter's spleens with you.

"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin..."

Friday night gear change

Monty Python's "Always look on the bright side of life" has a truck driver's gear change at 2 min 14 seconds, up a full tone:

Via

"Ee, it's not like when I were a lad..."*

The Metro celebrates a fisherman who has been in the business for seventy years:

"When I first started, it was very different. In those days, all you had to do to be a fisherman was get your register signed once a year. Now, you’ve got forms to fill in morning, noon and night."

* Obviously, he has a Cornish accent, not a Yorkshire accent, but it's difficult to imagine The Sketch with anything other than a Yorshire accent.

Life copies satire

Did anybody see this ...


and not immediately think of this ...

Inglorious Basterds

My two grown up lads dragged me to see this today.

Ho hum. The only reference that I recognised was right at the beginning where the German convoy approaching the farmhouse drives round the same corner about four times, which reminded me of the scene in Monty Python & The Holy Grail where two guards outside the castle (where Terry Jones* is being married off to the fat lass) watch John Cleese run over the brow of the same hill three or four times before he is suddenly upon them (and kills them), see two minutes into this:



But then again I'm no film buff. I do wonder, why doesn't Tarantino try and make a film that is enjoyable or interesting in its own right? Or a little bit more historically accurate, or even mildly credible?

* Ta to Mac The Knife for pointing out my glaring error.

A gear-change? In a Ramones song?*

Yup, totally gratuitous, they slide everything up a full tone at 1 minute 9 seconds in and just keep going:



* As in "A tiger? In Africa?", to which see the Zulu War scene from The Meaning Of Life at 4 minutes in.