The Goon Show and MP’s Expenses
November 23, 2009 by Ewan
Spike Milligan knew about the current expenses scandal all along
With the current news tap still flowing every week with another MP doing something that any regular member of the public would find distasteful (rules or not) I retreated to the safety of some very old episodes of The Goon Show.
Specifically an episode called The Jet Propelled Guided Naffi. And you know what? There was no escape there either.
Do you think Spike MIlligan knew something we didn’t?
CRUN: Who authorised this? Who are…
GREENSLADE: Oh, Mr Eccles here.
ECCLES: Yeah, I chose all the furniture myself.
CRUN: Mr Eccles, why did a seven-and-sixpenny window-seat cost two hundred and forty six pounds?
ECCLES: Ummmmm . . . I Resign! You speak to my secretary, you can’t talk to a Government Minister like that! I won’t be out of work long, you see! I’ll get that Ministry of Fishery job, you watch. I’ve kept goldfish!
GREENSLADE: Mr Eccles, Mr Eccles we are not for one moment doubting your sincerity. It’s just your intelligence that’s in question.
ECCLES: Well, I accept your apology.
The Jet-Propelled Guided NAFFI, by Spike Milligan.
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