ONE-TIME Government special advisor and full-time satirist Richard Heller has come with a ringing slogan for Ken Livingstone’s election campaign. A play on Boris Johnson’s exotic third name, it goes: “Better the devil you know than the de Pfeffel you don’t”. Geddit?! Oh, how they roared in Brixton. The capital jest is even better in that de Pfeffel derives from the German for “priest”.
ONE-TIME Government special advisor and full-time satirist Richard Heller has come with a ringing slogan for Ken Livingstone’s election campaign. A play on Boris Johnson’s exotic third name, it goes: “Better the devil you know than the de Pfeffel you don’t”. Geddit?! Oh, how they roared in Brixton. The capital jest is even better in [...]
by Tribune Web Editor
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
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