Book description
Mark Thomas has been touring the country for months, getting
audiences to come up with policies aimed at sorting out the country's
political chaos and taking back the power for the people. Sick to
death of bailing out bankers and subsidising MPs homes, the audience
vote on the best policy of the night to be included in the brand new
People's Manifesto.
From the inspiring to the downright hilarious, you'll wonder why
these fantastic ideas aren't part of the constitution already. For example:
- All politicians will be forced to wear the names and logos of the
companies sponsor that them or with whom they have financial links.
- Anyone who supports ID cards is banned from having curtains.
- All models have to be picked at random from the electoral register.
- Anyone found guilty of homophobic hate crime has to serve their
sentence in drag.
- CEOs convicted of fraud will be made to dress as pirates in
whatever job they get in the future.
The People's Manifesto will outline 50 policies of the
manifesto shouted out in bold type on a page to themselves with Mark's
commentary opposite. Mark has even 'road tested' some of them - like
hosting a party in an MP's second home (which clearly belongs to the
taxpayer) and getting university boffins to work out a way of SAT
testing MPs to rank them by value. And Mark's guerrilla antics won't
end there...
Power to the people is really happening.
Mark Thomas has worked as a comedian for over twenty years. His
activist, campaigning brand of comedy has been a thorn in the side of
many politicians and corporations. He is one of a limited number of
people to be awarded a UN Global Human Rights Defender Award and has
also been awarded a Kurdish National Congress Medal of Honour amongst
other citations. His three-year campaign to stop the building of the
Ilisu damn in Turkey was ultimately successful and saved 78,000 Kurds
from being displaced.
