September 22, 2008
And another thing: Have you noticed how that useless bunch of tossers we call a Government have completed their party's colour transformation from the traditional socialist red to a kind of quasi-regal purple?
Like we actually needed help to remind ourselves that Brooon and his dweebs were not already imbued head to toe in the stench of hideously unjustified self-entitlement - because no one is - they've gone further than even I ever thought, stealthily seguing Tory blue into Labour red, producing a Silk Cut purple backdrop of faux royal respectability to try to hoodwink the floating voters they're so desperate to deceive.
And just in case we are slightly too smart to fall for even that, Brown and Darling are wearing ties to match the backdrop of their party conference in Manchester today.
I grabbed this image - in a state of apoplexy - from the TV earlier on, but there are far better examples on the BBC News website:
Makes you feel quite ill, doesn't it?
While any last dregs of both political integrity and a nation's purse are thrown at already-rich bankers, with no coherent strategy on where this will leave the public finances or indeed banking itself come three or four years' time, all Brown can do is listen meekly to brand consultants about innovative image changes that serve precisely nothing - other than to succinctly remind us that this administration is, indeed, very much not in a purple patch.
* Let's see what colour ties they wear tomorrow...
