I assume very few people got the song reference from the title. It was a viral music video from 2011. Heres a link: Truly terrible/hilarious video with moderate production values that you should all watch in order to improve your internet education.
I'm digressing from the real news of today; a man from St Martins was chosen for the lead role in a new film. The film is a remake of the 1974 classic 'Death Wish' starring Charles Bronson, except the man from St Martins is Steve Luce and the film is actually real life and involves being Planning & Environment minister. Perhaps thats a bit harsh; I am fully supportive of him in his new role. I don't really think he has a death wish, but he was actually stopped in the street the other day by someone who seemed to think he did!
We all know P&E is somewhat of a poison chalice as you can't please everyone all the time, especially when some people are hippies, and others are raging capitalists. If you're wondering where I fit in that spectrum, I consider myself a liberal conservative with a hatred of wind turbines. The only thing wind is good for is taking away smells, and even then its job could be done by brownian motion (random motion of particles suspended in a fluid). Don't worry hippies, your Ramsar sites are safe with me whispering into the ear of the environment minister!
In preparation for all the people who will be grumbling about various planning decisions I'm going to record a new answerphone message. It will be something along the lines of 'Hello disgruntled member of society. I know you are unhappy with the various planning 'atrocities' committed by this man, but please spare a thought for me, the person who has to live with him. He won't even let me turn the shed into a second workshop! He says I have to file an application with his department and then when I ask exactly where to file it he points to the bin.' There would then be 3 minutes of Greensleeves before the tape cuts in, just because.
I find it amusing that the man who cannot plan the manufacture of a sandwich involving more than two ingredients is allowed to be the planning and environment minister - lets hope he's good at 'environment', whatever that means. He says he gets his own space with P&E written on it. I've decided that this should stand for 'Propellants and Explosives', something that would make his job a lot more interesting, but it would perhaps reduce the amount of hair he has, and he can't afford to lose any more.
I shouldn't have made all these jokes at the expense of the man who has spent a large amount of his time and effort raising me, but sometimes in life you are presented with an opportunity to be hilarious and creative and you can't turn it down. Again, its his own fault - he paid for my education.
Not done with the comedy, here's some more cartoons. Credit for the discovery of this comic strip goes to MJ.
This is what I expect Dad and Ian Gorst's conversation to be like in 3.5 years:
And what I think we should do about taxes
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