{"id":178062,"date":"2019-03-17T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/17\/monty-python-abides-brexit-edition\/"},"modified":"2019-03-17T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T00:52:00","slug":"monty-python-abides-brexit-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/17\/monty-python-abides-brexit-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Monty Python Abides, Brexit Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s35rVw1zskA\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>I see the similarities<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/mark-rutte-likens-theresa-may-to-monty-pythons-limbless-knight\/\">Theresa May is like the legless knight from <i>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an inspired analogy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>&#8220;Tis but a scratch.&#8221; &#8220;A scratch?! Your arm&#8217;s off!&#8221; &#8220;No it isn&#8217;t.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte likened Theresa May to a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZmInkxbvlCs\">Monty Python character<\/a> who refuses to admit defeat despite losing all his limbs in a sword fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of respect for Theresa May. She reminds me occasionally of that Monty Python character where all his arms and legs are cut off and then says to his opponent: let\u2019s call it a draw,\u201d Rutte said in an interview on the \u201cWNL op Zondag\u201d TV show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-17\/dutch-pm-likens-may-s-brexit-tenacity-to-python-s-black-knight?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;cmpid%3D=socialflow-facebook-brexit&amp;utm_content=brexit&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic\">Bloomberg<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n<p>He was referring to the Black Knight (played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/news\/john-cleese-on-brexit-i-dont-want-to-be-run-by-a-bunch-of-european-bureaucrats\/5120947.article\">John Cleese<\/a>, a Brexiteer) in the film &#8220;Monty Python and the Holy Grail&#8221; who, even after having all of his limbs cut off by King Arthur, declares &#8220;I&#8217;m invincible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no clue as to why May has not been turfed out by her Tory colleagues, but the Dutch PM has her nailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see the similarities Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that Theresa May is like the legless knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It&#8217;s an inspired analogy: &#8220;Tis but a scratch.&#8221; &#8220;A scratch?! Your arm&#8217;s off!&#8221; &#8220;No it isn&#8217;t.&#8221; Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte likened Theresa May to a Monty Python character &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[627,630,588,394,386,401],"class_list":["post-178062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brexit","tag-european-union","tag-fail","tag-foreign-relations","tag-humor","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}