THE party leaders have revealed their favourite TV shows, which is obviously a pack of lies intended to project how normal they are. Here’s what they really binge-watch.
Rishi Sunak
Claimed favourite: Bridgerton
What they actually watch: Bloomberg Markets
Sunak is a reprehensible little worm who almost certainly said Bridgerton to curry favour with the public, despite never having watched it. ‘What do voters like watching on TV?’ he would have asked a spad. It’s a shame they didn’t reply ‘Fat Families’ because it would have been great to see him eviscerated for his love of cruel fatsploitation TV by Sophy Ridge.
As a Star Wars fan you’d think Sunak might have said The Mandalorian, or even The Acolyte to look current. But really he’s the sort of rich person who has a TV permanently tuned to Bloomberg channel so he can check how his stocks are performing as he saunters to his home gym, ie. an absolute cock.
Keir Starmer
Claimed favourite: Friday Night Dinner
What they actually watch: Stalin’s Purges
As if to reinforce accusations of being staid and boring, Starmer said he liked Friday Night Dinner but finds it ‘a bit close to the bone’ for his 13 and 15-year-old children. Which is confusing as it’s not that rude, is it? Is there an American Pie version where Simon Bird does things like f**king the roast chicken?
You’d think Starmer’s TV choice would reflect his main passion, which is expelling lefties from the Labour Party. As such it would surely be Stalin’s Purges on the History Channel, or the BBC’s Stalin: Inside the Terror. If only Jeremy Corbyn could be bundled off to Kolyma gulag instead of remaining a dangerous threat to the centrist regime in his allotment in Islington.
Nigel Farage
Claimed favourite: Baby Reindeer
What they actually watch: Nazi Mega Weapons
Farage probably did watch the hugely-publicised Baby Reindeer, although it’s not clear what the exact appeal was for him personally. He’s a horrible person, so he probably just enjoyed laughing at a lonely fat woman crying.
However given Farage’s thinly-veiled admiration for Hitler and other fascists, he’s probably a sucker for the History Channel’s endless shoddy documentaries about the Third Reich. He’s probably got them all on DVD, but his favourite is undoubtedly Nazi Mega Weapons, with its V2s and Messerschmitt Komets that offered the remote but tantalising possibility of a global Nazi victory.
Ed Davey
Claimed favourite: Operation Ouch!, Something Special (and other ‘Mr Tumble’ shows), Horrible Histories
What they actually watch: The West Wing
Davey is a parent and, reasonably enough, his TV choices reflect that. However Justin Fletcher’s incredibly popular character Mr Tumble is a clueless, inept loser given to pratfalls, so it’s possible that Ed just finds him very relatable.
Because he subconsciously realises he is the children’s clown of British politics, it’s likely Davey’s preferred viewing is The West Wing and he imagines himself to be a shrewd yet ethical prime minister in the style of Jed Bartlet. And what’s wrong with a bit of pure escapism?
John Swinney
Claimed favourite: Live sport
What they actually watch: Human hunting
This is a painfully unimaginative choice by the SNP leader, and one that does him no electoral favours, so it must be true. However it leaves you desperately praying that Swinney has some sort of mental hinterland beyond ‘live sport’, and that it’s a euphemism for watching illegal, heavily-encrypted channels from Eastern Europe that show human beings being hunted to the death. ‘I love it when they gut them like pigs,’ says Swinney, hopefully – anything to make his TV choice less utterly boring and characterless.
Carla Denyer and Adam Ramsay
Claimed favourite: Borgen, Rebus, Death in Paradise, The West Wing, Doctor Who
What they actually watch: Top Gear
The Green Party co-leaders seem a lot less calculating than the others, and actually suggested a somewhat believable range of shows, although the heavy emphasis on crime dramas suggest they’re in the wrong job, and Doctor Who smacks of trying to appeal to strange woke youngsters, because who else wants to see the Doctor crying about everything?
However after doing Green politics all day, worrying about the environment, being progressive and liberal, sticking to a vegan diet and trying to recycle everything, the Green leaders will definitely need a break from Green shit. So their guilt-ridden pleasure is probably Top Gear, in which Clarkson and the man-children destroy Mother Earth in an orgy of midlife-crisis fossil fuel burning.
