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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Ebury Press (28 Jan. 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0091937965
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091937966
  • Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 1.3 x 15.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 18,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A funny and inspiring alternative election manifesto by political activist and comedian Mark Thomas

About the Author

Mark Thomas has worked as a comedian for over twenty years. His activist, campaigning brand of comedy has been a thorn in the side of many politicians and corporations. He is one of a limited number of people to be awarded a UN Global Human Rights Defender Award and has also been awarded a Kurdish National Congress Medal of Honour amongst other citations. His three-year campaign to stop the building of the Ilisu damn in Turkey was ultimately successful and saved 78,000 Kurds from being displaced.

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5.0 out of 5 starsSeriously funny
By Lawrence Sutcliffe on 19 Feb. 2010
Format: Paperback
I bought this book on a whim (not from Amazon I should confess) as I very much enjoyed the Radio 4 comedy show that inspired it. I expected it to be funny (which it is, very!) but it is also an important call for us, the electorate to get off our backsides and start taking an interest in what our elected officials are doing. We elected them, they work of us! It's is a mandate from us to improve the lot of all the people in this country and not an opportunity for MPs (and others) to feather their own nests or climb in bed with big business. Hopefully this little book will make people think a bit more about how we use our votes come the next election but if not it will certainly make you laugh.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA book for the people, by the people (and Mark Thomas).
By @GeekZilla9000 TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 1 May 2010
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Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most intelligent and vitriolic left wing comedians, his comedy not only makes you laugh but it strikes a chord and makes you think. Despite all of this he tends to slip under the radar of the general public and is relatively unknown, but he's held in high regard by those familiar with his work.

The People's Manifesto is the product of a live tour which gathered ideas from the audience, the public proposals have been analysed and a sampled in this book. There's a mixture of both daft and serious policies, but whether you're reading a ridiculous proposal about what to do with dog poo or a quite serious item about holding referenda before going to war, the book tackles it intelligently.

It's a genuinely funny book but it's not scared to deal with the real issues beneath the initial statement. For example, the proposal to have all models selected at random from the electoral roll is one of the most amusing parts of the book, and it also recognises a valid social problem when it is presented as a solution to seeing unrealistic idealised images of the body. It explores the morality behind what it proposes, it isn't just a collection of comedic ideas - it's a dissection of modern culture and a lot if it actually seems sensible!

The satirical pages may well educate you too and bolster your political arsenal of facts and figures ready for arguments in the office/pub/living room - did you know for instance that in 2009 benefit cheats may well have cost the country around £900 million whereas rich tax loop-hole abusers lost the UK around £18.5 *billion*!Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMark Thomas Legend
By KEVIN A BIGNALL on 12 Nov. 2013
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Every right minded human being should own & adhere to this great Manifesto on how to live a decent & just life..............Mark Thomas is the Peoples Champion..long live the revolution
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4.0 out of 5 starsBRILLIANT - some preposterous but mostly great.
By A3 on 27 Oct. 2013
Format: Paperback
WHAT made this book even more attractive was I got if for less than a quid
Topics include:

Party manifestos should be legally binding

MPS shout not be paid wages, but loans - because they get highly paid jobs because of their Westminster connetion

Everyone should be given the day off on their birthday

Each topic is supported by arguments and facts
Some are not so logical
But others are spot-on
The birthday one asks, what if the birthday falls on a Sunday?
(What the people didn't ask was what if my birthday's on 29 Feb?)
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4.0 out of 5 starsA great quick read, let down by formatting
By Ingenuity Lee on 31 May 2011
Format: Kindle Edition
This is for the Kindle edition of the Mark Thomas book, content wise this is a great read if a little short ( I read it in just over an hour). Funny and thought provoking, the peoples manifesto is a combination of funny little quips and great ideas.

The fact this is a short book makes the formatting of the kindle edition so annoying. The first letter of every chapter is on its own line and the formating of title pages should have been looked at so they don't spread over two pages. Lazy work from the publisher.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe mixed manifesto of the general British public
By Stuart Bruce TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 6 April 2012
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Mark Thomas gathers together the best of the audience suggestions as he toured Britain looking for evidence of what *really* should be in a political manifesto. He's selected the best ideas and given a few short paragraphs of commentary on each one, into a small pocket book.

It's a mixture of deadly serious and flippant, of obvious and unexpected, and of realistic and surreal. One moment it is an angry monologue about corrupt politicians, another it is suggesting that releasing goats into the House of Commons would be a good idea.

Generally it's a mixed bag, but mostly it's an expression of very good, sensible, humanist ideals- that are never going to happen in the current political climate.

A great little pocket book from Mark Thomas, full of interesting ideas, this makes an excellent coffee table / cistern read and is easy to dip into, but the depth and insight you normally get from Mark Thomas isn't crammed into these pages quite as much as I might have liked.
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4.0 out of 5 starsgreat read but short
By D. J. Taylor on 3 Jan. 2014
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This is a great read which had me laughing out loud on several occasions. However, it is very short and you will be able to read it in a single sitting.

That said, you've probably paid £3 for a comedy film on DVD which you would laugh at less than this so it's not all bad. You'll also learn some stuff as well.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLittle Red Book
By T. Bently VINE VOICE on 16 Jun. 2010
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That nice young man David Cameron keeps telling us he is going to 'consult the people' over policy and public sector cuts. Well he can save some time since Mark Thomas has done the hard work already, asking people at his gigs to come up with laws and publishing the results in this pocket-size booklet.

The result is truly inspired with 4x4 drivers, politicians' pay and the tabloid press been particualrly hard hit by the public's ire.

This manifesto probably won't amuse or amaze you if you buy The Daily Mail every day but for everyone else it's truly inspired reading. Perhaps like Mao's Little Red Book everyone in the country should get a copy - or at least every politician.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

funny and a good wee book

Published 2 months ago by Paul Fenton
5.0 out of 5 starsHilarious

Absolutely hilarious reading that had me laughing from one 'policy' to the next. Quite a few, would be just great to have. A few examples... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Gadget Lover
4.0 out of 5 starsMade me laugh out loud

Really enjoyed this book and it made me optimistic knowing there are more of us out there who see the establishment in all its bloated selfish lacking in moral compass capacity

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Published 7 months ago by Christine Boshelle
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Hilarious! But then, it's by Mark Thomas, of course it's hilarious!

Published 9 months ago by Jane Y Ross
5.0 out of 5 starsHighly reccomended

Some excellent ideas presented in attractive and amusing and very THOUGHT PROVOKING ways....!

Published 17 months ago by Jumanji99
4.0 out of 5 starsReview.

A bit lightweight going by his usual output.

Published 20 months ago by David Carrick
1.0 out of 5 starsNot that funny

For what I paid this book was incredibly short and reply very rushed, we of these observations were less than a quarter page long. Read more

Published 23 months ago by Jake Mitchell
5.0 out of 5 starsSuperb, short and punchy

This book is an ideal way to spend a couple of hours chuckling away to yourself imagining some of the suggestions within being put into practice

Published on 1 April 2014 by Niall
5.0 out of 5 starsSmall but fun

This is a small book but if you like Mark Thomas and his humour then you will enjoy this, ha!

Published on 21 Feb. 2014 by D. Scott

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