Who would have thought it. Formidable Lady Thatcher inspired by Monty Python. Actually, this instance of ex-prime ministerial humour has some interesting connotations: spotting the video on Boing Boing, I looked it up and read that the term 'dead parrot', which originated in the classic Monty Python sketch (of which, more below), 'also specifically applies to a controversial joint policy document which the Liberal Party and Social Democrats issued in 1988 in the process of their merger into the Social and Liberal Democratic Party'.
How interesting that the Lib Dems and the Conservatives are now an item. Anyway. 'Shortly before her downfall as Prime Minister' I read on, 'Margaret Thatcher described [the Lib Dems] party in her deadpan "comedy" voice, saying "this is a late parrot, it has ceased to be." [...] The emblem of the Liberal Democrats is a flying yellow bird.' Whether the Lib Dems are indeed a dead parrot or a triumphant phoenix of a party depends on whether the Lib Dems end up being slowly digested by the Conservatives, or, on the contrary, emerge from the current coalition in flying colours.
Here's the 'after' version.
And here's the unsurpassed 'before' version.
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