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‘Labour is fair game’: Led By Donkeys says it will hold government to account
(www.theguardian.com)
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I find Led by Donkeys very annoying, but they're absolutely right that Labour are fair game for satire. How could they not be?
Some people seem to have forgotten that humour isn't limited to "our side good, your side bad, hahaha".
You're right and usually Led by Donkeys forget this, too, which is why they're not funny! But maybe this is a sign that they're about to turn over a new leaf and become actually amusing.
Led By Donkeys is about five years old. I don't think that in that period there was a non-Tory government for them to mock, was there?
B-b-b-b-but, both sides!
I don't see how this is relevant to my innocuous comment about a satirical group I don't find funny.
What does this have to do with whether they're funny?
"which is why they're not funny"
Yes. Because they think that saying:
Which is what I was replying to, is sufficient to be funny. It isn't.
They are annoying because they're just grifters. They claim to be speaking "truth to power" but really they just make shit jokes.
Of course they're going to say that Labour is fair game now, because how else are they going to get money from people just from following Liz Truss around?
She does give good value for money in the overreacting department.
She does, but these stunts also mean we end up hearing more from her.
I'm not sure anyone really wants that.