Points, In Order

The Blair Backlash cometh

falconer.jpgBONG! Wee Matty D'Ancona reports on the Charge of the Light Brigade against the Gord, led by former Lord Chancellor, Charlie Falconer. A week may be a long time in politics, but the memories of m'lud's rumoured partners in battle - former Blairites Charles Clarke, Alan Milburn, and Stephen Byers - would appear to be even longer.

BONG! Conor's Commentary reckons that Brown has to sort it out, and show the electorate that the events of the last two weeks are a blip rather than an indication of things to come.

BONG! Tom Watson reports on the Boy David Cameron's rather strangled interview with the LA Times.

BONG! "The return of PMQs saw a more confident and cool Gordon Brown in the face of a poor performance by Cameron," begins Zebra-Mbizi, leaving everyone at Westmonster somewhat perplexed as to whether this is actually an article invoking a form of sophisticated irony that we, in our naivete, have failed to grasp.

BONG! Peter Kenyon on a new virulent strain of Foot in Mouth disease that seems to have infected factions within the Labour Party.

BONG! "Obesity likened to climate change!" screams the Beeb frontpage. Whaaa? You mean the issue is going to appear on the front pages of The Independent with perplexing regularity when everybody else is reporting on, you know, the news?

BONG! The "pissed" youth Cameron mentioned in his Conference speech does exist, according to the Mail on Sunday. Yeah, but what's happened to Little Max, Westmonster would like to know.

BONG! And, in case you missed it, the Tories are still ahead in the polls.

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