GLC: The Carnage Continues...
GLC: The Carnage Continues was an episode of The Comic Strip Presents. 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.
Cast Robbie Coltrane played Charles Bronson as Ken Livingstone. Dawn French played Cher as Joan Ruddock. Jennifer Saunders played Margaret Thatcher. Rik Mayall played the deposed Lord Mayor of London. Adrian Edmondson played Charles, Prince of Wales.
Beginning of the story 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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