Monday, May 26, 2014

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success



A video for my fellow Liberal Democrats.

6 comments:

Martin Veart said...

As long as the roses are yellow!

Anonymous said...

I cant see anything apart from a black screen.......... perhaps I should 'believe' more........

Democracy Man said...

A wonderful comment on a really terrible set of results

Greenfield said...

Its working now! I believe!

Phil Beesley said...

The essentially English Chitty Chitty Bang Bang story was written by Ian Fleming, a prolific author who sold other stories about a scary world.

The fictional car was based on reality. Two Zborowskis, an American and his son, an Englishman, were racing drivers. Sadly, they both died at the wheel.

Louis Zborowski, the son, created the Higham Special. When ownership passed to Parry Thomas, the car was renamed Babs and Parry Thomas, living at Brooklands, died on Pendine Sands attempting to beat the Land Speed Record.

Jonathan Calder said...

Thanks, Phil.

The story (or at least the children's English accent) makes far more sense if you see Lionel Jeffries as Dick Van Dyke's father-in-law rather than his father.

Trivia fans may care to note that Jeffries was younger than Van Dyke.