Current mood:

bored

Mark Thomas's Manifesto
So, last week I took the lovely Anne to the latest show from agit-prop comedian Mark Thomas.

It was fun, and I was in the aisles laughing at times. Part of this show's gimmick, however, is to ask people to contribute and vote on to a People's Manifesto, basically a list of policies you'd want to see if you were in power.

The full list is here, but the two from the show I was at were:

1: There should be an age of consent of 16 for all religion.

2: Introduce a recall of MPs so if 10% of constituents sign a petition to recall the MP they have to stand again.

Now, both are quite flawed as ideas (and bear in mind that 1 started out as a rather oppressive proposal to ban all religion and was worked on), but it's fascinating to see what comes up. (Especially given that though the sample of people at the show are 'People who find Mark Thomas funny', some of the proposals aren't exactly left wing.

Still, I'd be curious to hear what those of you out there in LJ land think of the whole thing. (It's Friday...)