Censored Song

Sometimes wisdom does emerge from the BBC; in the long running radio show ‘I’m sorry I haven’t a clue’ there’s a wonderful game called Censored Song. One team sings a famous song and the other uses a bleep machine to remove certain key phrases.

In this way, entirely innocent ditties can be hilariously reworked into highly salacious songs. To quote the inevitable Wikipedia article:

For example, “I Whistle a Happy Tune”, which ran, “Whenever I feel a[buzz] / I hold my [buzz] erect / And whistle a happy tune / so no one will suspect I’m a[buzz]“

Thus it is with MPs expenses. It’s been announced that various details will be redacted from the expenses that will be released in July. This applies to completely legitimate expenses as well as the doubtful ones (how sad that I am able to assume there will be doubtful ones). Taxi destinations are to be deleted amongst other things.

When told that Bill Quango MP has traveled from the House of Commons to [buzz] in a taxi costing £11.82 I’m afraid my first thought will not be that it was not to St Pancras. My head will fill in the missing piece with ‘Madame Chang’s House of Saucy Fun’.

MPs with nothing to hide have nothing to fear of course. All they have to do is release their expenses in full detail themselves.

H/T to the Devil.