Aim at Blair, get Brown
May 20th, 2004At this point the first condom filled with flour biffs him in the back, skids off, and goes on to spray all over Gordon Brown. How perfectly apt! It was aimed at Blair, but it glanced off him and it hit Brown! The protesters had hurled Britain’s most successful metaphor!
Simon Hoggart’s coverage of the purple flour incident is up to his usual standard of wry observation.
On the other hand, Hansard’s coverage is much drier and much more, well, British.
May 20th, 2004 at 15:01:08
“Interruption”
It is extremely British, isn’t it - like the way that when the BBC resumed TV broadcasting after a seven year gap during World War II, they just carried on showing the same Mickey Mouse cartoon they’d had on when the shutdown happened…
May 20th, 2004 at 15:14:33
Apparently (this may be urban myth, though), the announcer introduced the cartoon by saying “As I was saying, before we were so rudely interrupted…”
May 21st, 2004 at 03:08:04
“Now then, where were we?… Ah, yes…”