That sound you can hear is the tumbleweed drifting across this post from 'Micky H', whose blog appears to be dedicated to misfired gags aimed at Trot opponents in the murky world of Unison internal politics.
It says something when a blog prompts a pang of sympathy from me for the various 'Generals Without Armies' that make up the magazine rack at Housmans Bookshop, but Micky's blog hits the mark. I don't think that the late lamented 'Dave Dudley' need be roused from his slumber with the news that someone is playing the Craig Ferguson to his Jerry Sadowitz.
Shame really, 'cos there is the making of a decent pisstake of us all in the original idea. I seem to remember that a few years back, Matt V-W, a now ex-member of the Birmingham Branch of the SPGB, came up with the idea for a tv show called 'Comrades', a brilliant parody of the SPGB loosely based on 'Friends'.
Sadly, it failed at the planning stage: He couldn't find three female SPGB members to cast and, on top of that, no six members of the SPGB would agree to be in the same rehearsal room at the same time, for fear that the Central Organiser would take the opportunity to try and get them to form a branch.
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Until I had a quick read of Micky H's blog I didn't appreciate just how much some people hate socialists in general and Trots in particular.
Probably a testament to how some of our 'comrades' have acted in the trade unions down the years.
Cheers guys.
"I seem to remember that a few years back, Matt V-W, a now ex-member of the Birmingham Branch of the SPGB, came up with the idea for a tv show called 'Comrades', a brilliant parody of the SPGB loosely based on 'Friends'.
Sadly, it failed at the planning stage: He couldn't find three female SPGB members to cast and, on top of that, no six members of the SPGB would agree to be in the same rehearsal room at the same time, for fear that the Central Organiser would take the opportunity to try and get them to form a branch."
Darren, I'm trying to think if I've ever read any funnier blog entry than that above and I can't come up with anything. Priceless, mate, fucking priceless!
Thank you so very much!
Duncan,
thanks for the link on your blog, and I'll be sure to reciprocate at the earliest opportunity. That's quite a coterie of SPGBers you have on your blogroll. Better watch you don't catch anything. ;-)
Reidski,
only a fellow hack could get that joke. Thank you for being that fellow hack. ;-)
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