Spitting Image - News At Benn

Spitting Image copywrite. Tony Benn is the anchorman for the unbiased news, with Ken Livingston and Len Murray.

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Comedy

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• Spitting
• Image
• Tony
• Benn

[MsPregis]

who's len murray?

[flametaledfox]

@MsPregis He was a Labour MP and a major trade union leader of the 1970s and 1980s leading the TUC. Seemed like a nice man.

[hypergreg]

this sketch was made in in 1984 if i remember correctly, also it's a joke, it's called satire, clearly you don't understand the concept of that

also it's Labour, try to learn to spell

[flametaledfox]

Really? I though that the first Nuclear power station in the United Kingdom was opened in 1956, by Queen Elizabeth II, at Calder Hall?

[Alexanderpetrov1990]

Can somebody explain the bit about 'rape to be illegal'? What exactly is his joke referring to? Or is it meant to be meaningless?

[kentamitchell]

@hypergreg Spelling? (respectfully) a great deal depends on which side of the pond you're on.

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

@flametaledfox He was NOT a MP"

[alanheath]

@MegaJustDucky A theme also used by Private Eye. For example they ran a Battle for Britain cartoon with the Conservatives appearing like the Nazis.

[jmorrison230582]

@0.50

Those promises made sense until Ken said a "decent England football team".

No danger of that.

[MrGilles1990]

@HumanMonolith if the political spectrum was 1000 miles long then i guess your right.

[HumanMonolith]

@MrGilles1990

Its miles off the bbc

[woofti]

"It's funny because it's true" - Homer J. Simpson

[MegaJustDucky]

@7Network I don't *think* so. I imagine it was intended to continue the implication that the Tories are Nazis, which *was* fairly common on Spitting Image (see the 1987 Election Special, and pretty much anytime Norman Tebbit was present)

[7Network]

@MegaJustDucky Thanks, had never heard of this, was it a common phrase?