GLC: The Carnage Continues...

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"GLC: The Carnage Continues" is an episode of the British television comedy series The Comic Strip Presents... broadcast on BBC Two in 1990. It parodied the takeover of the Greater London Council by Ken Livingstone, and the subsequent disbanding of that body by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, re-imagining the story as a Charles Bronson / Sylvester Stallone-style action movie. It is a thematic sequel to The Strike, which involved the creation of a Hollywood version of the 1984 miners' strike.

Cast

Robbie Coltrane - Charles Bronson as Ken Livingstone.
Dawn French - Cher as Joan Ruddock.
Jennifer Saunders - Margaret Thatcher.
Rik Mayall - The deposed Lord Mayor of London.
Adrian Edmondson - Charles, Prince of Wales.

Plot

The story opens as a mock report from the opening of the new Charles Bronson movie GLC: The Carnage Continues, in which Bronson (played by Coltrane) discusses his new movie, in which he plays Ken Livingstone. From there, the movie itself begins.

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