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World drying up..... politicians don't care..... British sovereignty being signed away..... police threatening strike action..... the world's identity thieves just waiting to pounce on 25 million poor benefit claimants.... Nadine Dorries.....
There's certainly a bulging pre-Christmas basket of woe for any self-respecting third party seeking a narrative to delve into. So applause all round for the LibDems for thinking out of the box. Or rather, thinking into the box. Because they're complaining about the number of repeats on telly:
Culture spokesdroid Don Foster's got the Grumpy Old Man mask on, arguing that 44 per cent of programming this Christmas on the main five channels will be repeats. And that's not including Hollywood sequels or prequels or remakes. That's real repeats, people. It's a cast-iron, bungs-in-brown-envelopes, dodgy-dossier outrage. As Mr Foster says:
"Some of the blockbuster films I enjoy watching, or a Morecombe and Wise Christmas special, are great. But I prefer more original programming like Cranford."
A quote which is notable for only one thing: the BBC have forgotten how to spell Morecambe and Wise. That's how bad things have got. All together now: "I am playing all the right notes. Just not necessarily in the right order."
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