The kind of advice now being given to US presidential wannabe, Ron DeSantis, who’s being told to put his wife front and centre and get passionate about things when canvassing. Edwina Currie started out by regarding him as a “sexy beast” and ended up throwing him to the wolves in her memoir.ĭespite his music hall background, or perhaps because of it, Major would have shuddered away from advisers counselling that he must show emotion in public. The quietly courteous manner which initially endeared him to public and media became a deadly disadvantage.īut that was the pattern of his career, even with his mistress. Micheál Martin, on the penultimate Late, Late Show delightedly imitated Mario Rosenstock’s earlier imitation of the Tánaiste on the same show.Īlthough seeing yourself caricatured can be fun, it cannot have been even mildly amusing for John Major, who could never have credibly claimed to enjoy watching himself portrayed by a grey puppet eating dinner with his wife in a silence broken only by him murmuring, “nice peas, dear”. Our own former finance minister Michael Noonan announced that he tried not to miss RTÉ Radio’s Scrap Saturday because he so enjoyed the mimicry of himself in that show. The Spitting Image puppet of British prime minister John Major gets to grips with the leader of the opposition Labour leader Neil Kinnock. Indeed, it might be argued that nobody other than Major could have succeeded Margaret Thatcher after the latter’s highly emotional exit, without seeming, in contrast, to be somewhat colourless.īut what irrevocably hung the “grey man” definition around John Major’s neck was TV programme Spitting Image. It might surprise some Irish Examiner readers to learn that the one who wrote that was “the grey man” of British politics, John Major, who to this day is regarded as a personality-free failure, despite achieving a lot more for the Conservative Party than did the more recent leader Boris Johnson. The girls would repeat the query until a satisfactory level of uproarious demand was achieved, then “they would hitch up their skirts to reveal kittens cradled in purpose-built pouches located in their groins”. The audience would tend to answer in the affirmative. This, it should be said, included a 12-year-old sister in the line-up which teased majority male audiences with the question: “Do you want to see our pussies?” They even achieved worldwide notoriety for their “kitten” routine.
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