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Oh, Lord (Ashcroft), won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Known mainly for his/her excellent spoof posters, Beau Bo D'Or has today posted this fantastic satirical video, in which Conservative front benchers plead with their deputy chairman: "Oh, Lord Ashcroft, won't you buy us all a Mercedes Benz? We got you a peerage and we've already saved you a fortune in tax"!


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Posted on Mar 17, 2010 at 02:11pm


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I do hope that coyright clearance was obtained from the BBC for all their clips used in this video :)
Iain Dale @ 24 weeks ago
@ Iain

Yes, any financial interests or conflicts on the subject of Ashcroft should be duly declared. So...
Peter Jukes @ 24 weeks ago
There's not much that can make me register to post a comment anywhere but when you're falsely accused of being "one of Guido Fawkes friends" it's time to make an exception.
For far too many fundamentally moral and political reasons to go into here I withdrew all co-operation with Guido ages ago.
Paul Staines and Harry Cole now seem to be having some schoolboy fun implying I recently collaborated with them when all they did was use part of a video I made without my permission. Not much I can do about that unfortunately but it did spur me on to create the video above.
I assume the comment from Dazed & Confused is another schoolboy prank.
Thanks for the further encouragement.

Neil (Beau Bo D'Or)
Neil Hepburn @ 24 weeks and 1 day ago
Ahhh someone got there before me...

I bent my mediocre mind to some lyrics to the same song only last night....

Unite wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz
my friend has two Jaguars I must make amends
You'll get loads for your money
You can buy all your friends
Oh Unite wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz

Unite, won't you buy me a constituency
My pals all hold office, I think its for me
A seat of green leather
A whip over me..eee
Oh Unite wont you buy me a constituency

Unite will you donate to my pa-a-arty
We aint got no clowns and balloons aint for me
We need all your millions
You'll get it back you'll see-ee
Oh Unite will you donate to my pa-a-arty
Alan M @ 24 weeks and 1 day ago
@ Alan M.

Mercedes-Benz

Yes, I can imagine you in your Janis Joplin wig backed by Big Brother and the Holding Company (how appropriate).

Check this out, however
Ludwig Wittgenstein @ 24 weeks ago
Hilarious! And very cleverly done too.

It shows that the Left know how to make a point in a humorous way. As Clifford Singer says in John Harris article "But maybe there's a simpler explanation: that Tories can't really do humour."
Richard Blogger @ 24 weeks and 1 day ago
@ Richard Blogger:

If you look carefully, you'll see that the video itself was made by Beau Bo Dor, one of Guido Fawkes friends, who was simply mocking his own. So if the "Tories can't really do humour.", your statement of: "Hilarious! And very cleverly done too.", makes you look something of a plum as far as I can ascertain.

Ho Hum....
Dazed And Confused . @ 24 weeks and 1 day ago
Dazed, you'll notice that I was quoting Clifford Singer. And yes, I did notice who had made the video (the clue is in the first sentence of the article). I have no idea of the politics of Beau Bo D'Or, but I have been following his blog for a year now and the poking seems to be more aimed at Tories (and New Labour Tory-lite) than at Labour. Of course, "the Left" is a much more disparate grouping than "the Right", and you don't have to be Labour to be "the Left" (and, it seems, you don't have to be "the Left" to be Labour...).

Maybe I should not have suggested that Beau Bo D'Or was "left", perhaps "progressive" would have been better?
Richard Blogger @ 24 weeks ago
Richard - The Tories do try humour. Yesterday they had six people dressed up in suits with Charlie Whelan masks on looking for Gordon Brown - it was hilarious,....so funny...I nearly fell off my chair with laughter.

No....the Tories really can't do humour.....well apart from giving George Osborne the Shadow Chancellors job.

http://www.redrag1.blogspot.com/
RED RAG ! @ 24 weeks and 1 day ago