Help! Emergency!!!

Boom boom – out go the lights

If you ever start to feel some sympathy for politicians, if your hard heart ever melts, even a little bit, just around the edges, remember this:

Our prime minister, born 1966 and therefore a man, in his late forties, called out the emergency electrical repair engineers.

They flicked the circuit breaker and restored order to the chaos.

A forty-eight year old man lacking the ability to find the fuse board, see that one switch is down when all the others are up, and flick it. Apparently, the board was neither in an obscure location, nor was any special equipment (like a chair) needed to reach it.

Now, you could maybe, just maybe forgive someone. Someone who is clearly different. Say, Stephen Fry. A minor royal used to having someone flick his switches (matron!) for him. Elton John. Were he still alive, Michael Jackson. Not a national treasure Robert Wyatt.

I don't suppose Prince knows what a circuit breaker looks like.

But Dave's been busy piling on the 'man of the people' baloney. He tells us he likes The Smiths (who responded by saying he was to desist immediately) and Pink Floyd, and does ordinary bloke things. So he's busy telling us. Aided and abetted by the PR team sculpting his public image.

Well, he's actually way too posh for any of that, really. He rides out with the local hunt. He can't achieve something that is between filling the kettle and changing a plug in complexity, yet he insists he's just a normal Joe.


A frosty climate...

...greeted Owen Paterson in Somerset, or Somerset-under-Water as it's now known.

The environment minister (or secretary of state, or whatever) is a climate change sceptic. That's like appointing the local paedo to run the playgroup. Spending on the environment on his watch? Last year £29.1m, this year £17.2m. The affected people were not, apparently, pleased to see him or hear that no additional funds would be made available.

His buddy, Greg Barker (degree in history and politics) has backed Gummer on fracking. The opponents are opposed on 'idealogical' grounds, he says, and their objections are not based on the science. The science he's well-armed to understand, having obtained a BA in history. And politics. Maybe the idealogical grounds are the ideology of not buggering up the environment for little gain?


Sister Act

The Sisters of Nazareth ran a care home for children. Children they forced to eat vomit.

A lib dem candidate has received death threats for posting a cartoon of Jesus and Mohammed on Twitter.

Spite and nastiness are not exclusive to the church, but it seems to have more than its fair share.