Hockney's little helper
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Call You and Yours (see previous post) began with the famous exchange between David Hockney and Labour MP Julie Morgan on the Today programme in 2005. Hockney repeatedly interrupted Morgan calling her "boring" and "dreary" because she supported a comprehensive public smoking ban.
Later that same day Hockney spoke at a Forest event at the Labour conference in Brighton. The small room in the Metropole Hotel was packed to hear Britain's most famous living artist condemn those who want to boss us around. There was a fantastic atmosphere with lots of laughter but only one MP, Austin Mitchell, bothered to show his face.
A couple of weeks ago the London Evening Standard published an open letter written by Hockney in response to a Labour MP complaining, in The Oldie, about how MPs are being unfairly treated as lepers.
The Standard described it as "an ironic blast ... on the Government's 'new instructions' to smokers and the stubborn temptations of a cigarette". You can read it HERE.
Oddly enough, the target of the letter was none other than Austin Mitchell!
Reader Comments (4)
On matters artistic and literary, good for Lynn Barber.
Author and journalist Lynn Barber has withdrawn from a literary festival after the local council refused to include a photograph of her smoking in its brochure for the event.
Is Being Dull a NECESSARY qualification for council membership these days............?
Oh Christ, it's Richmond, that Lib-Dem Paradise-by-the-Thames.
Should have guessed............
I started denormalising nulabor just about when they started denormalising me. Therefore I now regard nulabots - the enemy - as subhuman machine-brained ants working to further the aims of a treasonous sociopathic anti-democratic criminal organisation.
Lower than vermin, as they like to say.