Broken Britain

I’ve got another brilliant idea for a TV series.

I’ve got another brilliant idea for a TV series. It’s called MPs Walled Up in Scorpion-Filled, Ebola-Ridden, Plague-Rat-Infested, Acid-Drenched, Radioactive Tower Block of Slow Hellish Screaming Death. All right, so the title does give away the premise, slightly, but I’d still watch it, wouldn’t you? 24/7. Done right — with special feature-length episodes devoted to Ed Balls, Harriet Harman, and the Milibands — I reckon it would be more satisfying than Band of Brothers, The Sopranos, Das Boot, South Park, The Simpsons and University Challenge rolled into one. And from me, that’s quite an accolade.

What I shan’t be watching again, I don’t think, is the tame rip-off of my idea currently showing on Channel 4. Tower Block of Commons (Channel 4, Monday) is a ‘social experiment’ in which various MPs are sent to live like council tenants for a week in a grotty tower block.