Neil Kinnock in Spitting Image - Series 5

[maxuskane]

Superb! Brilliant! And the wonderfully talented Chris Barrie as Neil Kinnock.....

[Kidsgrove49]

Looking back.......Spitting Image attacks on Labour seem all the more accurate, Labour didn't matter and neither did Spitting Image. The Tories just sailed on and on - until Labour finally got off the pot. By then, Spitting Image had finished too.

[UNSCForwardontodawn]

great clip. is the guy with the long hooked nose Arthur Scargill by any chance?

[13agibson]

To be honest, if there was a general elaction called next week, even Kinnock would have stood a better chance of winning it than any of the current main party leaders, especially Miliband. The hung parliament proved that we couldn't make our minds up and that was before the cuts, the Lib Dems policy abandonment and the election of Ed Miliband. Not my personal favourite but at least Kinnock was a strong opposition leader if not PM material. Think twice before brushing him aside.

[MrMickroach]

@13agibson He had/has no chance, he is welsh and he is ginger...nuff said!

[aslkfja]

very funny

[nixconsuelo]

Love it. "Roy...ROY!"

[borjon23]

What does he say..."[something] socialism firmly down the middle"? Can anyone decipher that bit starting at 0:36?

[Svetlanka83]

@borjon23 'I tread the road of socialism firmly down the middle in the hope that i'll die a very descent individual'

[borjon23]

@Svetlanka83

Hah, thank you. A dubious claim on his part, I think :)

[yoctocb]

Love Denis Healey on the piano

[yoctocb]

Love Denis Healey on the piano

[bugsbunny2022]

haha. Bring back spitting image now.

[danielod]

is this spoofing a modern major general?

[11nytram11]

@danielod No. Its a spoof of "My eyes are fully open" from Rudigore.

[firewop]

i lived in the uk from84/88 i loved this show

[KoAham]

lol at Michael Foot nodding off

may he rest in peace

[URhnsi35]

Amen.

[Professor6871]

@KoAham Well he wasn't much awake when he alive Michael Foot. I love parody of the Welsh wind bag Neil Kinnock here. There was more chance of Zippy from Rainbow becoming PM than he would of been. 2 general elections and with two defeats in 8 years as leader of the Labour Party, not bad going there for loser.

[Olrors]

@Professor6871 Would "have"!! Conservative education policies made flesh here I fancy...

[Olrors]

@Professor6871

Would "have"

[Olrors]

@Professor6871 Would "have"!! Conservative education policies made flesh here I fancy...

[JenTurtle91]

Third Verse:

The Labour Party lumbers me with complicated cases

Such as whether I intend to close down all those U.S. bases

But then even my opponents all agree that I am charming Which is quite the only sense in which youll find that Im disarming

And when Im making speeches I am desperately praying

That theres somebody wholl tell me what on earth it is Im saying

My particularly rapid unintelligible pratter

Isnt generally heard and if it is it doesnt matter

[JenTurtle91]

My eyes are fully open to my awful situation

Im increasingly unable to conceal my desperation

If you ask what I believe in I have simply no idea

Which is why Im rather given to this verbal diarrhoea

What Id really like to do is go back home & have a cuppa

Cos I know that Mrs. Thatchers gonna have me for her supper

As for economic policy Im as mad as any hatter

But Ill never be elected so it really doesnt matter

(diarrhoea!)

[cstromsoy]

absolutely superb; not laughed so much for ages! For left wing writers they were lethal for anyone! British humour at its very best!

[JenTurtle91]

Hehe I love Michael Foot....Belgrano!

[JenTurtle91]

Second Verse:

I tread the road of socialism firmly down the middle

In the hope that I will die a very decent individdle

My philosophy of life is like the sound of one hand clapping

But try to find the content when I offer you the wrapping

I do not see the point of saying something controversial

When Id rather get Drew Hudson to direct a new commercial

Ive been packaged and presented like a foaming glass of Guinness

And Ill say what I believe in when Ive had a word with Glynnis

[NathanF11989]

Many thanks for your help :)

[JenTurtle91]

hehe no probs, it does get a bit gibbery

[Tiuhuanaca]

Could you please give us the first and third verse too, because its nearly impossible to understand ( English is not my mothertongue and I haven't found any source in internet for Spitting Image texts ).

[JenTurtle91]

sure! although I had some trouble with those ones too, but I'll put up what I could make out

[fatoldjew]

@JenTurtle91 One correction: It's Hugh Hudson.

[meSticks]

... since I was only born in '84, I have no idea who most of them are supposed to be... sadly. Anyone want to enlightne me?

[jacktindale]

From left to right on the boat, we have; Michael Foot, Tony Benn, Ken Livingstone and Roy Hattersley.

I was born in 1991 by the way.

[JenTurtle91]

Also who is the eyebrowed one on the piano? In all of my experience of Spitting Image I have never heard him mentioned by name

[jacktindale]

Hehe, no worries, that is Denis Healey, prominent figure on the right of the party, former Chancellor and Defence Secretary and Deputy Leader under Foot.

:-)

[JenTurtle91]

Ah, so THATS Healey......awesome thanks for that, a whole bunch of stuff suddenly made sense!

[jacktindale]

No problem! Happy to help. My knowledge of nineteen-eighties political figures finally pays off.

:-)

[NathanF11989]

What does Kinnock say in the second verse? That one goes so fast it's very hard to understand.

[ILoveTeaDogs]

Wow it must have taken forever to do the writting of the song & getting it right.  I wish that they'd make region free DVDs as I live in North America

[timelordcool05]

Go Chris Barrie!

[PurpleFunnyChocolate]

that's chris barrie's voice

[MuppetPro]

I'm going to get the DVD from myself this coming month to add to my collection.

[AndrewJimScott]

Sorry about that last comment.

I was trying to say was this the clip you promised me?

[AndrewJimScott]

Is t