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A joke too far?

Peter Hoskin 5:01pm

Tom Harris lost his job as Labour's ‘Twitter tsar’ today after uploading this Salmond-themed Downfall video onto YouTube. A pity it's not even one of the funnier ones:

And here is, erm, Ed Miliband responding to the news:

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Kittler

January 16th, 2012 5:27pm Report this comment

Harris, Labour's "new media guru" He would have been piss poor in that job if he couldn't anticipate the consequences of his action.

mattghg

January 16th, 2012 6:02pm Report this comment

The Ed Miliband one is much funnier

Holly ......

January 16th, 2012 6:14pm Report this comment

Maybe MiliE thought he was taking the mick out of him during his time under Bozo?
I think they are all funny, because they are so plausable at depicting the inner workings of the Labour bunker.

Strange how the overall humour is similar to the Bozo spoofs though innit?

David Ossitt

January 16th, 2012 7:13pm Report this comment

Bloody hilarious; loved it.

Nicholas

January 16th, 2012 7:27pm Report this comment

Seems a bit humourless to sack someone just for that. This hair-trigger offence industry is going to take us in ever decreasing circles. Whatever happened to John Bull's sense of humour?

Oh, yeah, the Labour party was created.

Hexhamgeezer

January 16th, 2012 7:33pm Report this comment

Thanks for the link - very funny.

No wonder people despise politicians so much when you read the desperate faux outrage from the SNPbots. Guys and gals, look at yourself, get a life ferchrissakes.

Ostrich (occasionally)

January 16th, 2012 7:54pm Report this comment

Kittler 16th, 5:27pm

"He would have been piss poor in that job if he couldn't anticipate the consequences of his action."

Aye, so assuming he did, maybe its a case of "Better love hath no man than to lay down his career for his friends"?

wrinkled weasel

January 16th, 2012 8:05pm Report this comment

Tom Harris has a sense of humour shock! Sadly, poor Tom does not get modern politics. You have to be a speak-your-weight machine these days and anybody with a half a brain and pretensions to being human gets shown the door.

I am afraid that humour has been abolished for the foreseeable future. Please amend your Newspeak dictionaries with the following:

"Humour" a means of undermining equality, truth and the authority of our leaders. Used as a subversive weapon and consequently all users of Humour will become unpersons.

(Ironically, Tom Harris was sent a copy of 1984 by the Libertarians and took the piss out of it.)

Who will be "offended" next?

Wilhelm 1

January 16th, 2012 8:31pm Report this comment

Yet the racist Diane Abbott still keeps her job.

Racism code for anti white.

Simon Stephenson.

January 16th, 2012 9:13pm Report this comment

Following Martin Bright's explosion of outrage over the Nazi/Burley affair last month (*), I look forward to seeing his reaction to this Nazi faux pas by a Labour MP, and to reviewing how even-handedly he deals with one episode compared to the other.

Wilhelm 1

January 16th, 2012 9:14pm Report this comment

This Downfall clip has been done to death. There is a million clips of this type on YouTube.

The first time it's quite funny but not the millionth time. And Hitler that's a SAFE subject, isn't it ? instead of Adolf why don't they put a clip of Mugabe or a muslim towel head with changed English subtitles ?

I wonder why they don't do that ?

TrevorsDen

January 16th, 2012 10:12pm Report this comment

it has been done to death because it is the ultimate in black (the blackest of black) comedy.
The original is in fact worth watching in its original context, horrific and funny at the same time.
I suppose spoofing the scenes where Magda Himmler poisons her 6 children would be a spoof too far.

TomTom

January 16th, 2012 10:14pm Report this comment

Wilhelm is right, I last saw this as Merkel but even that is not as funny as Dinner for One with Merkel and Sarkozy. It is so derivative that Tom Harris should be ashamed.

Besides, Salmond is a former Labour MP so what does that say about Harris' party - having had Oswald Mosley as a Labour Minister. These halfwits are so childish, no doubt he wasted taxpayers money on this trivia

Verity

January 16th, 2012 11:08pm Report this comment

Wilhelm ... good point. What about a pyjama-clad mouthy imam? Or Johan Hari might be good ... Or Sarkozy might be a giggle now that it's all going poire-shaped ...

Gordon Brown might be a hoot.

Colin Cumner

January 17th, 2012 12:07am Report this comment

I suppose it is mildly amusing but I find it increasingly difficult to appreciate what passes as humour or comedy nowadays. Nonetheless, I think it was somewhat excessive to sack Harris for such a trivial 'faux pas'.

Wilhelm 1

January 17th, 2012 12:46am Report this comment

Tom Harris should be sacked not for the clip but for lack of original thought. Talk about flogging a dead horse.

Tom Harris is one of those Glasgow labour mp mafia types who thinks he's a comedian but really he's a cheeky smart ass with his snout firmly in the westminster trough fiddling his expenses.