No, those are not mine and please remember I do the jokes round here! Anyway, they're not real pants, it's a sculpture by some comedian artist called Colin Wilborne and it's called, er, Rusty Steel Pants - oh, come on, what's the matter with you people, where's your sense of humour?
Anyway, according to Paul Waugh, Mr. Wilborne is not as daft as that particular example of his work might lead you to believe because he was paid £75k by the Homes and Communities Agency (Who? What? Why?) when it was under the command of the Labour party. However, that was not for pants, rusty steel or otherwise, but for a miners' memorial which I show below in an unfinished state.
I do not begrudge the miners' a memorial, and this one looks as though it will be a rather fine piece of work,but I do object to paying for it. The Armed Forces Memorial statuary was paid for by public subscription and so too should this one commemorating miners. After all, they're always banging on about the unity of the working classes and how the miners were their praetorian guard, so let the miners dig a bit deeper and pay for their own memorial.
Oh well, I'll contribute to the plaque as long as it records all their strikes during the two world wars.
Posted by: dearieme | Friday, 13 August 2010 at 21:32
Good point, 'DM', but given that you wouldn't get me down a coal mine if they paid me in gold bars, I really do not begrudge them a memorial, I just don't want to pay for it, is all.
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 13 August 2010 at 22:42