VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|April Clemmies|CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

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The arrival (finally) of Spring has resulted in quite a good crop of platitudes this month.

In a dazzlingly original piece, [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry130404-081024]Rev Lucy Winkett[/url] started off talking about changes to legal aid and benefits before quickly switching to a discussion of J.S. Bach. Remarkably, as Dinah pointed out, she did so without mentioning a single one of Bach&#039;s compositions. Scarcely missing a breath, she even managed to casually throw in a reference to the six children murdered by their parents in an arson attack.

[url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry130406-080453]Brian Draper[/url] resurrected an &quot;argument&quot; that used to be quite common on TFTD. It goes something like this. We have faith in all sorts of things: doctors, teachers, gravity etc. &quot;Faith&quot; is therefore a good thing. Therefore faith in the Invisible Magic Friend is a good thing. This reasoning is so laughably bad that even TFTD presenters have realised that a three year old could see through it. Most have been sufficiently embarrassed not to use it. Not Brian Draper.

[url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry130409-082354]The Bishop of Liverpool[/url] joined in the Tory necrophilic orgy over Margaret Thatcher.

Surprisingly, so did [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry130417-083413]Lord Sacks[/url]. If there&#039;s one thing I didn&#039;t expect from Lord Sacks, it was fawning sycophancy towards the establishment. (OK, not surprisingly.)

In one of her two exceptionally sensible TFTDs this month [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry130419-082035]Mona Siddiqui[/url] kept getting asymptotically closer to coming out in favour of assisted suicide. She just couldn&#039;t quite bring herself to say the words.

[url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry130427-084831]Rev Roy Jenkins[/url] pointed out the connection between the Co-op deciding not to buy the high street branches of TSB, and the Ten Commandments. I trust this is so obvious that it needs no further comment.

[url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry130429-075500]Clifford Longley[/url] just got bored and did a repeat. Anyone would think he didn&#039;t have anything to say.

[img=images/clemmie_small_crown.JPG popup=false float=left]It&#039;s a very difficult choice this month. I refuse to give the Clemmie to anyone praising Margaret Thatcher, so they&#039;re out. The Master certainly can&#039;t have it for doing a repeat. Mona almost deserves it as a kind of anti-Clemmie, but that would set too dangerous a precedent. That leaves us with Lucy&#039;s Bach, Brian&#039;s faith and Roy&#039;s Ten Commandments. 

I don&#039;t feel Roy&#039;s is quite as classy and stylish as the other two and Brian&#039;s faith is too unoriginal. So, by a skilful process of elimination we are left with Lucy&#039;s Bach. It was a tough decision, but in the end Lucy truly deserves her April Clemmie.|CATEGORIES|47|IP-ADDRESS|94.168.119.214|CREATEDBY|admin|DATE|1367739359