In a couple of days, the Queen will be doing her usual broadcast and sticking (I imagine) to her usual themes of the nation working together praising public service and some gentle references to the relevance of the Christian message. Would it not make for a bracing alternative if Iain Duncan Smith were to broadcast an alternative Christmas message?
He could make it clear that he hates large numbers of British people, smear the working poor as dysfunctional scroungers, finally come clean on his ambition to replace the welfare state with food banks or perhaps nothing at all. He could throw in some of his famously misleading statistics ( even the Economist questioned his honesty on this, saying "questionable numbers have floated out of Iain Duncan Smith's office into the public debate like raw sewage". The Queen's broadcast usually has some fairly strong visuals. Possibly Martin Rowson could be asked to try his hand an animation? I would suggest that Mr Duncan Smith dress up as The Grinch, but as the Grinch changes his mind that wouldn't really fit Mr Duncan Smith's character.
I understand that the Queen's Christmas broadcast no longer seems to get the attention it used to, perhaps Mr Duncan Smith could perform that traditional Tory function of promoting the monarchy by using a simultaneous alternative broadcast to force people to switch channels?
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