Mark Thomas visits Hazel Blear's Tax Free zone.

I'm a fan of Marks work but not of that video, I think it fell flat. To be fair to Mark, he was pulling a publicity stunt on a quiet street with assorted press he was trying to explain himself to, to get their support for covering the stunt when the story had been saturiated in the mainstream. The only 'joke' he added was to point out Blears is small in stature, which seems to indicate his tiredness own of this sort of stunt.

The last Thomas videos I saw was his G20 speech, which was far closer to his high standards, it was comedic and purposeful and that is where Marks shines, in front of a big crowd. His video just before that he was urging people to vote Green. I don't agree with that but I think it is better than not voting or voting for one of worse parties. I think Mark Thomas could be more effective than any Green candidate as a political representative -especially to stand as an MP, then he would double the viewing figures for the BBC Parliament channel. Someone should persuade him to stand against Hazel Blears at the next election.

Mark is even funnier than Esther Rantzen, another sort of TV personality who also threatened to run against a corrupt Labour politician. Jello Biafra once stood for political office, simply to abuse the air-time that 'campaign' guaranteed him, to great effect. If Mark runs against Hazel Bears and loses then I will pay his election deposit as long as he runs as an independent.

Politicians have to take themselves seriously!