Jess Phillips is pilloried on Spitting Image and there is outrage.
Television programme Spitting Image has faced a major backlash for a ‘horrible’ sketch which presents Jess Phillips as a superhero who uses her ‘big v*g’ and ‘big t*ts’ to fight crime – despite the Labour MP previously being the target of death and rape threats.
The four-minute clip depicts the MP for Birmingham Yardley as ‘Viral’, an ‘annoying outspoken feminist superhero who wants to make Labour more electable’.
Comedian Rachel Parris, who says she has good friends who work on the show, described it as ‘f***ing horrible’.
The revamped Spitting Image returned in 2020 and airs on streaming platform Britbox, which is a joint venture run by the BBC and ITV.
It would appear that the reboot is as awful as the original. However, I don’t recall the usual suspects complaining about the portrayal of Margaret Thatcher as they are now complaining about how Ms Phillips is being shown. Could be my rusty memory or it could be double standards. Tough call…
It was obvious from the start they were going to try to annoy certain people. That those people have walked straight into it and become outraged on more than one occasion, says a lot about them
“I don’t recall the usual suspects complaining about the portrayal of Margaret Thatcher as they are now complaining about how Ms Phillips is being shown.”
It’s the old, “Oh, but she deserved it because of t’pits” baloney, isn’t it? They’ve actually convinced themselves that she was the greatest monster this country has ever produced, on a par with – if not actually worse than – Dr. Crippen and Fred West.