Gordon Brown may not be cast in wax...

Madame Tussaud's has entered the political arena by allowing members of the public to vote on whether or not they should make one of their famous wax statues of 'PM' Gordon Brown.

To be honest, we'd forgotten that anybody actually gave a flying crap about waxwork these days (the whole process is so 1777), but it appears that somebody must do because the plan is starting to cause a bit of a stir.

According to the blurb on the Madame Tussaud's website, when Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister it was the first time in the famous tourist trap's 150 year history that they decided not to immediately produce a mould of the current political leader, deciding to wait for a 'General Election' to confirm Mr. Brown's status.

Visitors to the Madame Tussaud's site can cast their virtual votes as to whether or not Gordon should be given the prestigious honour of being reproduced in wax.

Westmonster voted with a resounding 'yes', if only because of our secretly harboured dream that somebody may replace the real Gordon with his wax version (obvious joke, we know). We didn't however choose to be added to the Madame Tussaud's mailing list. That would have reeked of shameless publicity stunts.

If Tussaud's really doesn't like old Gordon as much as they seem to, then perhaps a nice idea might be to cast him in ear wax. Perhaps we could organise a collection of some kind and start a revolution?

Voting closes on May 13th so if you're shameless enough to give a damn you'd best hurry up.

Written by Oli Anderson on 8 May 2008 10:38 AM. There are 0 comments so far. Permalink