Et Tu, Eddie Izzard?

Eddie Izzard Labour MP? Photo: Eddie Mulholland

Does anyone else share my dismay that comedian Eddie Izzard is thinking of standing, not just as an MP, but as a Labour MP?

In the days before Izzard, comedy was aggressively, tediously political: all you had to do in the Alternative [to:] Comedy Eighties was say "Thatch" in a sneery Ben Elton voice to get a roar of smug, consensual, right-on approbation from the audience.  Izzard – and his contemporaries – changed all that. They took the...