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Westminster: the movie

Open thread: Boris Johnson compared Labour's handling of the credit crisis to the film Backdraft. Which other movies reflect British politics?
  
  

Backdraft
Kurt Russell in the 1991 film Backdraft. Photograph: The Kobal Collection Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Speaking on the Today programme this morning, Boris Johnson likened the government's handling of the economy to the plot of the 1991 film Backdraft, in which firefighters from Chicago get a lot of laurels and praise for putting out fires that, it transpires, one of them started.

With such a wealth of alternatives to choose from, which film do you think best reflects British politics today?

 

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