This Turbulent Policeman

BONG! The Tories have written to Jacqui Smith demanding she yield unto them the head of Ian Blair. Preferably on a spike.

BONG! The day after the Election that Wasn't, Political Betting ponders if the situation might have gone the other way for Davy had the Observer published their poll which had the comrades in the lead by 13 points. Concluding that it was the "Observer wot done it," Mike Smithson can be confident that the entire editorial team of the Sunday paper are now on the Gord's "to Disappear" list.

BONG! Simon Hughes has come out for Nicky Clegg as LibDem leader. Has Lembit Opik decided upon whom to bestow his kiss of death support yet?

BONG! News from the land of irony: Home Office Minister Liam Byrne is fined for using a mobile phone whilst driving down the aptly named Tyburn Road.