No sooner has Spotlight’s personal retirement fund for geriatric members of the acting profession been dispatched to UK Gold than a new generation of more youthful reprobates have taken to the small screen in the guises of Campo, Clegg and Boris ‘Foggy’ Johnson.
The accents and the attire may be slightly more up market (except for poor old Foggy) but the hair-brained schemes, pretentions and aspirations are just the same. Perhaps Ann Widdicombe might make the occasional guest appearance as the ghost of Nora Batty, and Vince Cable could be ‘Smiler’. Lady Thatcher would be excellent as Auntie Wainwright, peddling her brand of now discredited ideas as worthless tat.
I am looking forward to the episodes where Campo realises that he can’t afford to keep having accidents because there aren’t enough hospitals to treat him and when he seeks fresh ideas from Billy Hardcastle for his defence spending plans; where Foggy tries to introduce a new cycle scheme for the North Yorkshire Moors and when Clegg is forced to admit to Campo that he has misgivings about Billy Hardcastle’s proposal for every able bodied man to fire at least one arrow every day, as a replacement for the Trident missile programme. Auntie Wainwright could be very busy over the next few years selling off the country’s silver at rock bottom prices.
It is to be hoped that this latest incarnation of the BBC favourite doesn't run for the next 37 years.
The accents and the attire may be slightly more up market (except for poor old Foggy) but the hair-brained schemes, pretentions and aspirations are just the same. Perhaps Ann Widdicombe might make the occasional guest appearance as the ghost of Nora Batty, and Vince Cable could be ‘Smiler’. Lady Thatcher would be excellent as Auntie Wainwright, peddling her brand of now discredited ideas as worthless tat.
I am looking forward to the episodes where Campo realises that he can’t afford to keep having accidents because there aren’t enough hospitals to treat him and when he seeks fresh ideas from Billy Hardcastle for his defence spending plans; where Foggy tries to introduce a new cycle scheme for the North Yorkshire Moors and when Clegg is forced to admit to Campo that he has misgivings about Billy Hardcastle’s proposal for every able bodied man to fire at least one arrow every day, as a replacement for the Trident missile programme. Auntie Wainwright could be very busy over the next few years selling off the country’s silver at rock bottom prices.
It is to be hoped that this latest incarnation of the BBC favourite doesn't run for the next 37 years.
I'd rather take this lot than The Muppet Show led by 'Beaker' Milliband, with 'Statler' and 'Waldorf' in the guise of Gordon Brown and John Prescott. Harriet Harman has the guile of 'Miss Piggy', but none of the glamour. It remains to be seen who the contenders are for the roles of 'Kermit' and 'Animal'. I am sure that there must be some bug-eyed puppet that resembles Margaret Beckett and I am drawn towards the idea of Ed Balls playing the comedian manqué 'Fozzie Bear'.
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