If you can watch it, this is worth thirty seconds of your time:
For the record, this clip from Spitting Image dates back to 1989! pic.twitter.com/7OeOsT0PFO
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Spitting Image got so much right. I have never forgotten the edition broadcast after the polls had closed on 1987 election night. The Tory Cabinet singing Tomorrow Belongs to Me, dessed as Nazis.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=641722396368930
Sorry, misremembered. They weren’t dressed as Nazis.
out of the mouths of babes and sucklings?
Steady on – in the current climate that could be judged anti-semitic.
Indeed, could you imagine the same now (Spitting Image)? Israelis would go absolutely bananas.
& Shamir was supposed to be “good”.
BTW: I can recommend Russels “History of Western Philosophy” the section on Judaism is quite interesting.
….and the Spitting Image scene of Thatcher and her Cabinet in a restaurant, when Thatcher orders a raw steak. Asked “what about the vegetables?” she replies “they’ll have the same as me”