The Comedy of Politics: Not a laughing matter

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This scene was copied from the famous 'Wrecking Ball' music video by Miley Cyrus.

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The subject of politics is one that is avoided due to lack of interest&period; However&comma; with this year EU referendum it seems the British public has immersed themselves into what the government is really up to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In just under a fortnight&comma; Britain will be faced with the biggest decision of the century&comma; so far&period; The EU Referendum&period; Over the past week alone&comma; we have seen defenses from the &num;remain and &num;leave campaigners&comma; each providing some sort of reason as to why the public should vote for them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But&comma; in life there is the fine line between a smooth campaign&comma; a bad campaign&comma; and just a completely weird one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just recently after the ITV debate&comma; featuring Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon&comma; a rather shrewd advert created by Pro-EU supporters&comma; promoting a &&num;8216&semi;viral&&num;8217&semi; sex film featuring Boris Johnson swinging on a Miley Cyrus-style wrecking ball&period; &num;Sexit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;91959" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-91959" style&equals;"width&colon; 634px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;351D5BC600000578-3634682-image-a-8&lowbar;1465545785733&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;351D5BC600000578-3634682-image-a-8&lowbar;1465545785733&period;jpg" alt&equals;"This scene was copied from the famous &&num;039&semi;Wrecking Ball&&num;039&semi; music video by Miley Cyrus&period;" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"678" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-91959" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-91959" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">This scene was copied from the famous &&num;8216&semi;Wrecking Ball&&num;8217&semi; music video by Miley Cyrus&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Of course&comma; the video plan was completely scrapped&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott told the newspaper&colon; &&num;8216&semi;We’ve had Project Fear now&comma; Project Leer&period; Is there any depth the &lbrack;remain&rsqb; campaign won’t sink to&quest;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t stop there&comma; after all&comma; all the sex parodies in the world could not over take the impressive performance by an audience member&comma; who attended the BuzzFeed townhall even streamed live on Facebook&period; After he stated that as a conservative&comma; he was taken by the &&num;8216&semi;pacifying effect&&num;8217&semi; the EU had on him&comma; Prime Minister David Cameron&comma; answered questions from the audience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe src&equals;'http&colon;&sol;&sol;players&period;brightcove&period;net&sol;2540076170001&sol;NykPWQNal&lowbar;default&sol;index&period;html&quest;videoId&equals;4935927928001' allowfullscreen frameborder&equals;0><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Clearly angry remain supporter&comma; Yasmin Morrissey&comma; openly stated how she hated the Tories and branded the Prime Minister as &&num;8216&semi;Dodgy Dave&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I hate the Tories&period; I have just got to say you have f&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast; every f&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast; thing up in this country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You have screwed students&comma; you have screwed the disabled&comma; the vulnerable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I mean&comma; seriously&comma; I have heard you want to take back the Human Rights Act and everything as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can totally believe that&period; I wouldn’t put that past you at all&comma; dodgy Dave&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s a sad day in politics if this is the response you can get from supporters of your cause&period; The reaction just says it all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;image-100&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;image-100-1024x591&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"David Cameron&&num;039&semi;s reaction" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"369" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-91968" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Although some have praised the young woman&&num;8217&semi;s efforts&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">&quot&semi;DID YOU EVER KNOW THAT YOU&&num;39&semi;RE MY HEEEEEROOOOOOO&quest;&quot&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;BFtownhall&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;BFtownhall<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;VEqaixJjXU">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;VEqaixJjXU<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Gena-mour Barrett &lpar;&commat;SmileGena&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;SmileGena&sol;status&sol;741305007400714241&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">June 10&comma; 2016<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The gobsmacked prime minister&comma; with little to respond with&comma; had just taken a shocking blow to the remain campaign&period; It is no wonder he had recently stated that he was &&num;8220&semi;very concerned&&num;8221&semi; about the outcome of the EU referendum&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After the debate it got worse for &num;remain campaigners as a new poll showed that &num;Brexit was ahead 10 points at 55&percnt; with 45&percnt; voting to stay&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The editorial team also ran a poll on our twitter on each major debate this past week&comma; and our readers voted whether they wanted to stay&comma; remain&comma; or even undecided&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The results were as followed&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">You heard it from Nigel Farage&comma; The are all a part of a &&num;39&semi;Westminster Bubble&&num;39&semi;&period; We&&num;39&semi;re you convinced&quest; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;bbcqt&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;bbcqt<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;EUref&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;EUref<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; London Glossy &lpar;&commat;LondonGlossyMag&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;LondonGlossyMag&sol;status&sol;741344732362727425&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">June 10&comma; 2016<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Unbelievable debate&comma; Osborne clearly put on the 🔥seat on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;remain&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;remain<&sol;a> facts&period; Where do you stand now&quest; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;EUref&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;EUref<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;BBCDebate&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;BBCDebate<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; 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