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Where Veep Gets Its Ideas From

Last night's double episode finale of Veep was full to busting of plot twists back and forth.

But one was Kent's idea that Selina Myers should address voters, standing on top of a crate, as an attempt to connect with the ordinary working voter.

Naturally, it all goes wrong. But where would such an idea come from?

From real life over the pond. When John Major, Prime Minister, did exactly the same thing in BBC2.

With Veep showrunner Armando Iannucci, when he still had hair, on hand to mock the staginess of the whole thing on, in his radio show On The Hour. Clearly he's kept it in his pocket eer since.

Although the attempted suicide of "FLOTUS" in the show, and the effects it may have, may also relate to a story that the British press chose not to report.

Just how cathartic for Iannucci is Veep in getting British political obsessions out of his system?

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