Serious Crime: Seriously Funny

If you listen to one radio programme this week, it should be this.

It’s been illegal to demonstrate around the Houses of Parliament without prior permission from the Police for quite a while now. A demonstration would be holding a placard, wearing a badge or possibly having a picnic. One woman was arrested to preserve national security because she was reading the names of the dea in Iraq at the Cenotaph. So how do you protest against draconian government measures?

Obviously you apply for permission.

Let’s have a look. What have you got here? You want a demonstation to defend Surrealism.

Yeah, I do. I can have a demonstration about anything I like.

Indeed you can. I just didnae know surrealism was under threat.

It is.

How so?

Because we have a government of paradox. We have a government that seeks peace through war and protects civil liberties by eroding them. This is a paradox. This is absurdism. Absurdism is the enemy of Surrealism. Ergo it is under attack.

I wish I’d never asked.

If one person needs permission to protest with one banner, what happens if 150 people want to have their own solo protests on the same day?

Hilarious, but only available for the next week.