Twig@sopuli.xyz to UK Politics@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months ago‘Labour is fair game’: Led By Donkeys says it will hold government to accountwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up158
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minus-squarefrankPodmore@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoI find Led by Donkeys very annoying, but they’re absolutely right that Labour are fair game for satire. How could they not be?
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up15·3 months agoSome people seem to have forgotten that humour isn’t limited to “our side good, your side bad, hahaha”.
minus-squarefrankPodmore@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoYou’re right and usually Led by Donkeys forget this, too, which is why they’re not funny! But maybe this is a sign that they’re about to turn over a new leaf and become actually amusing.
minus-squaregedhrel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·3 months agoLed By Donkeys is about five years old. I don’t think that in that period there was a non-Tory government for them to mock, was there?
minus-squarefrankPodmore@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI don’t see how this is relevant to my innocuous comment about a satirical group I don’t find funny.
minus-squarefrankPodmore@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoWhat does this have to do with whether they’re funny?
minus-squarefrankPodmore@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoYes. Because they think that saying: “our side good, your side bad, hahaha” Which is what I was replying to, is sufficient to be funny. It isn’t.
I find Led by Donkeys very annoying, but they’re absolutely right that Labour are fair game for satire. How could they not be?
Some people seem to have forgotten that humour isn’t limited to “our side good, your side bad, hahaha”.
You’re right and usually Led by Donkeys forget this, too, which is why they’re not funny! But maybe this is a sign that they’re about to turn over a new leaf and become actually amusing.
Led By Donkeys is about five years old. I don’t think that in that period there was a non-Tory government for them to mock, was there?
B-b-b-b-but, both sides!
I don’t see how this is relevant to my innocuous comment about a satirical group I don’t find funny.
What does this have to do with whether they’re funny?
“which is why they’re not funny”
Yes. Because they think that saying:
Which is what I was replying to, is sufficient to be funny. It isn’t.