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Eddie Izzard backs Brown against Thatcher’s children
Izzard uses party political broadcast to say Britain is ‘brilliant’, not ‘broken’
As Labour spin-doctors try to unravel what exactly happened last night - Nick Clegg clearly 'won' the great TV debate, but who lost? - the party today unleashes its secret weapon: Eddie Izzard, comedian, actor, marathon runner and sometime "card-carrying transvestite".
Izzard is travelling around Britain supporting local Labour candidates. He was in Cambridge and East Anglia this week, dressed - to Gordon Brown's relief, no doubt - in a sober blue jacket and jeans rather than a cocktail dress. And according to one Labour insider, local party activists are lapping it up.
"It's a lovely sunny afternoon in Cambridge - but if the Tories were in power it would be raining," he told a group of students gathered on Christ's Pieces, in Cambridge.
Slipping effortlessly into more serious election-speak, he told the Cambridge Evening News: "The recession we're now coming out of had nothing to do with Labour Party policy: it was caused by capitalist casino gambling.
"If the Tories get in, there would be billions more in cuts than Labour are planning.
"I've been in Labour since the mid 1990s. They're just fairer: they believe in fairness. If the Tories believed in fairness, then they wouldn't be in the Tory party."
Tonight, a political broadcast starring Izzard will be broadcast on the main television channels, starting at 6.55pm on BBC1.
Izzard uses last year's experience of running 43 marathons in 51 days to argue that the Conservatives are wrong to describe Britain as "broken". If the Tories got on their bikes, they would discover that Britain is "brilliant", he says.
"Remember," Izzard concludes, "these people are Thatcher's children - be afraid, be very afraid!"
Preaching to the converted? Yes. But after Gordon Brown's wooden performance in last night's TV debate - especially in the joke-telling department - Izzard's performance is just what the Labour spin-doctors ordered. ·
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Washed-up has-been Eddie Izzard fails to find one single thing Labour has done for Britain, and confines himself to trying to blame the current British trainwreck on a party who've not been in power for 13 years. The only joke in this video is Eddie himself. Meanwhile half a million people in Iraq are dead thanks to Eddie's scum-chum in 10 Downing Street. We won't forget this, Eddie. You're as finished as your fat murderous fool McBroon is.
How easy to selectively include and exclude the truth. "3 Million unemployed under the Tories" he moans - I wonder what the current combined unemployed, Incapacity benefit and NEETS adds up to - hmmm about 3 million? if 3 million is really so bad he should be telling us not to vote labour. That old "fairness" chestnut was out again - that will be the fairness where labour has increased the divide between rich and poor, where labour scrapped the 10% tax rate for the poorest, the fairness of putting an European referendum in your manifesto and then cancelling it once they got in power - oh and let's not forget the fairness of Harriet Harridans"equality" agenda that tells me as an employer that if I have a good white female candidate and a good black male candidate applying for the same job - I have to give it to the white female candidate because then I will be acting "Positively" - yes it's discrimination but now under Labours fairness agenda - discriminating against black men is alright!
I agree with Eddie that the people of Britain are great - that's why we deserve far better than these labour politicians whose paucity of ideas, class and excellence envy have made all of our lives so difficult.
What a comedian he is - failing to mention people having to move house or lie about religious beliefs to get their children into a decent school. What a comedian he is to have failed to mention Lord Paul or the vast sums he is pumping into the Labour party, well done Eddie for not mentioning that he is a non dom as well - what a laugh.
"These people are Thatchers children" - well surely isn't every liberal, socialist, green and labour supporter who was born at the same time? I am going to give Mr Izzard credit for being able to read a script but as for a reasoned argument backed up with facts - zero out of 10.