This satirical piece about the MPs' expenses scandal raises a few titters but lacks the brutal logic of first-rate farceI yield to no one in my love of farce, but this new one by Colin Swash and Dan Patterson is a very so-so example. It has many of the right ingredients, from dropped trousers to slamming doors, but it misses an essential point: that the escalating panic has to proceed from a plausible premise. In thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AM on December 12, 2013