Humor:

One of the many reasons I like English culture

Where else would politicians use a Monty Python sketch to describe the death of a major political initiative?

Monty Python parrot sketch recalled
Ministers pulled the plug on a British referendum on the controversial EU constitution yesterday, following the emphatic defeats in France and Holland.
Political Editor Simon McGee reports.

IT breathes not and it moves not, but Foreign Secretary Jack Straw yesterday refused to say what is clearly visible to all - that the EU constitutional treaty is dead.

As all 25 member states are required to say "yes", the French and Dutch votes mean that as it stands it cannot come into effect.

But caught between France and Germany, still insisting every country should see through their own ratification processes, and Article IV-447, which lays out the requirement for unanimous ratification, Mr Straw went for the careful balancing act of announcing in a Commons statement that a British referendum should be "postponed".

Shadow Foreign Secretary Liam Fox declared the treaty was dead and plenty more MPs made the same point, but it took the honourable Member for Bolsover, Denis Skinner, to point out that the situation had something of the Monty Python dead parrot sketch about it.

Mr Skinner suggested sending the French President a copy of the said clip.

And England was also the country that produced this biting, dry humor exemplified by Monty Python that appeals to me so greatly and is so apropos of the current situation with the proposed EU Constitution.

'Nuff said...