to looking like this:
to spoof Dave Cameron on Youtube (as explained yesterday), and has collected a lot of flak from myriad Tories, several MPs on his own side (Stephen Pound said that "British politics has just sunk to a new low") and most independent observers, including myself, put the boot in HARD.
Simon now says he's sorry if his attempt to be "edgy and unconventional" offended.
?????
His normal hairstyle is pretty "unconventional", but that's about all you can say about the guy apart from that. (My friend Chris Brooke has a similar haircut, but Chris hasn't done a Cameron spoof video in a baseball cap yet (but why not, Chris? Everyone else seems to be doing it.) Apparently the latest issue of Private Eye has a good report on just how duff Simon is and when I actually have enough time to take my copy out of the shrinkwrap it was delivered in, I'll have a look.
Sadly, Simon has removed the spoof from Youtube now. Still on the good ol' BBC, though.
There was another Cameron spoof done by fellow Labour MP Tom Watson (below), who looks a lot less like Cameron than Simon does, and his spoof seems to go on for about 4 times as long. I couldn't face viewing more than about 10 seconds but have a look and see what you think. Where will it end?
(I'm very pleased to have worked out how to post into the blog from Youtube, by the way... I must try not to overuse this facility or we'll just end up with something that's a technologically advanced version of "Tarrant on TV" or that Clive James programme from the 1980s.)
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It is true, I have not done a David-Cameron-themed thingummy on YouTube.
Sion Simon is basically ghastly, and his suggestion after 11 September that we should really think hard about whether to use our nuclear deterrent was a tad irresponsible; but we shouldn't be too hard on the poor chap; he's apparently losing his sight at a pretty rapid rate (and despite his limitations as a journalist, he's written fairly movingly on this subject), and people tell me he was a good JCR President at Magdalen once upon a time (though not a very good PPE student).
The best Sion-Simon-themed comedy, though, is not to be found on YouTube, but in the pages of David Runciman's recent book The Politics of Good Intentions (a lightly-revised collection of his various essays in the London Review of Books), in which Runciman is able discuss the writings of Sion Simon and Max Weber in the same passage, keeping a straight face, and finding insightful things to say about each. It's a remarkable thing to be able to do.
Cheers Chris! That Runciman book does sound like a classic. I think Sion Simon should get together with Paul Simon and re-record "You Can Call Me Al" as "You Can Call Me Dave". Would probably be a much more effective satire than the YouTube thing. Instead of Chevy Chase in the video they could use David Mitchell from That Mitchell and Webb Look - he has the build for a Cameron impersonator and would be genius.
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