Baldrick is usually the one with the cunning plan in Blackadder – but he has branded Bristol councillors “stupid bastards” for plans to close libraries in the city.
Actor Tony Robinson, who starred in the BBC comedy with Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Lawrie, drew the battle lines last week and blasted: “Would stop closing Bristol’s Libraries, you stupid bastards do?”.
Would stop closing Bristol’s Libraries, you stupid bastards do? https://t.co/sm36jzt8lf
— Tony Robinson (@Tony_Robinson) January 29, 2018
More than half of the city’s libraries are set to be axed to shed £4.7 million off council budgets, slashing numbers from 27 to 10 with the remaining libraries also seeing opening hours cut down.
But the former Time Team presenter’s X-rated plea was met with a fiery response online as Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy leapt to the defence of councillors. She tweeted: “Or “stop slashing councils’ budgets to the nth degree so they can afford to keep libraries open”? Bristol Council isn’t doing any of this out of choice. There is no money.
Or “stop slashing councils’ budgets to the nth degree so they can afford to keep libraries open”? Bristol Council isn’t doing any of this out of choice. There is no money.
— Kerry McCarthy (@KerryMP) January 30, 2018