Facing the music

Alistair Darling is all set to groom his eyebrows into their most reassuring as news comes in from The Times that the economy's buggered.
The EU Treaty will be signed today in Lisbon.
Brown, in a cunning attempt to divert attention away from the EU Treaty (see: referendum, lack thereof) has called Sarkozy a wuss and challenged him to a conker fight.
Good news for Barack Obama as he closes the funding gap between himself and Hillary. Bad news for Barack Obama as he discovers he's distantly related to Dick Cheney. Gutted.
Ming Campbell was not present in the House yesterday, but he was there in, er, spirit. In unrelated news, Chris Huhne was seen wandering around the Portcullis House area muttering something about seeing a knife before him with its handle turned towards his hand. Curious, huh?
"Our politicians know nothing of real life," thunders newspaper editor, reality TV star, and frequent chat show guest Janet Street-Porter.

Sam Coates in the Times reports that Chris Huhne is quite happy to be seen as an unlikely prospect for leader because "Liberal Democrats like an underdog." Hmmm. Choosing the worst option proffered hasn't achieved any notable electoral successes for the Libs thus far, but Westmonster is confident they know what they're doing.
The Legal Services Bill gets a kicking in the Lords.
Nad Dorries takes time out from attempting to curtail women's basic rights to fill us in on what she had for breakfast. Great stuff.

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 18 Oct 2007 8:25 AM. There are 2 comments so far. Permalink