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Broadcast right after the Labour Party Conference...:-)
This production, which took just three months to make, stirred up the
sensitive spin-doctors of New Labour before they even saw it. Neil plays the
fictional New Labour leader Tom Peel as a creation of the media-groomers and is
described as "young, charismatic, handsome and only very slightly demented".
There is a plain-speaking deputy leader of the old school and a devious
spin-doctor Clive Colville. Mind you the Tories don't fair much better...the
Home Secretary is a man of no principles with a mistress, and the dithering
Conservative leader is described as "Mr Personality-bypass".
The
overwhelming view was that it was masterly...brilliantly funny, witty and
fast-paced. Wonderfully cynical. Neil very nearly stole the show from Tom
Wilkinson. The Labour Party didn't say a word after its broadcast after all
their earlier belly-aching. The Daily Mail thought it too pro-Labour so it must
have been good :-) Must be BAFTA-nominated!
This was broadcast during a
heavenly week for us Neil fans- he was on the TV three times (Rhodes, Drop The
Dead Donkey and this).
Neil is a proud socialist and life-long Labour
supporter, and even appeared in a Labour Party Political Broadcast in 1994.