Had a funny thought

I had a strange half-awake dream this morning. It's the Cameroid, about 3 days before the election coming out and basically saying:

"Labour keep nicking our policies, or lying to undermine them, so we've kept these beauties under major secrecy until the last moment", then laying out a proper badass manifesto involving an EU referendum, savage spending cuts, a proper quango bonfire that doesn't involve another quango to manage, a single tax rate and various other bits that I can't remember because I was half asleep. Naturally he went on to win by a massive landslide, as about 20% of the country who weren't planning to vote said "sod it, I think I will".

I know it won't happen, but I can't think for the life of me why not. He could crush NuLab this way, they just would not have time to respond at all.

Man in doing expected thing shocker

Big surprise - someone abused the scanner at Heathrow and was given a warning. Glad this is how airport security staff are fighting the mythical but ever-present terrorist threat.

Idiocy

This dickhead was so dangerous that we chucked away 100s of years of trial by juries, but not dangerous enough to stop him buggering off at lunchtime of his trial.

It beggars belief. It's absolutely mental, words actually fail me. We've fouled up the judicial system, setting a terrible precedent, for a trial that has now ground to halt because plod can't keep their eye on the defendant.

Thaddeus at AR said it better than me, but I had to let it out anyway.

Ummm, didn't it sink?

The Greek Finance Minister just said "we are trying to change the course of the Titanic - it cannot be done in a day".

I assume he really means "we're busy lining our own pockets so we can get the hell out of here and go to Aruba when the shit hits the fan." That is after all how the gentry on the Titanic rolled when it all started going a bit wrong. Man the lifeboats Stavros, let the poor people sort themselves out.

Oink

This does not bode well at all. It must be heartbreaking for Brown to be so torn between his desire to bugger up the UK economy and his desire to pretend to be electable and therefore not completely and overtly pro-Europe.

A golden opportunity to really fuck the Tories over here, deftly committing to a horrific and ever-expanding PIGS bailout, calling a snap election and losing it. Call me Dave knows he couldn't renege, he'd never become the President of the European Council that way.

The Press Conference announcing the continuing horror is at 1545 GMT, watch and shudder as Van Rumpy goes for the power grab.