Following his fellow comic Beppe Grillo’s success in the Italian election, polling day for the Eastleigh by-election has been labelled by the Labour candidate, satirist John O’Farrell, as ‘Fuck Off Huhne Day'.
Derived from Grillo’s V Day campaigns (where V stood for ‘vaffanculo’ or ‘fuck off’) which protested about Italian government corruption, media censorship and convicted criminals in parliament, Fuck Off Huhne Day is O’Farrell’s way of promoting an equally hard-hitting message - that British MPs telling a bit of a fib about a motoring offence will not be tolerated.
“Law-makers can’t be law-breakers,” explained O’Farrell in a glib, media-friendly soundbite, just like a proper politician.
