Politics are back - 'chuck off Gormless' meets... Last of the Summer Wine character for PM?

Are we back? Is politics about to become interesting again? Seems so. So many interesting stories in the last 24 hours.

First up, we had a rare sight - a Labour MP finding a moral compass and resigning. The individual concerned is Stephen Hesford MP who was a PPS to the embattled Attorney General Baroness Scotland.

Now, back in the day - even under the John Major Government and EVEN under Tony Blair, ministers who were caught out resigned from public office. Not under Gormless, of course.

So, Mr. Hesford appears to have recognised that we, the public, find it shocking that Baroness Scotland is still there in her job and he's quit.

In his resignation letter, he writes: "...whilst I have great personal regard for the Attorney General, I cannot support the decision which allows her to remain in office. In my view the facts of the case do not matter. It is the principle which counts, particularly at a time when the publics' trust of Whitehall is uncertain to say the least. We have to be seen to be accountable".

Meanwhile, on the day that Charles Clarke told Gormless to - if we paraphrase - chuck off (and do it for his own dignity) for the sake of the Labour Party's future, Gormless himself had to come out in public and scotch rumours that he is poised to quit on health grounds. Not that he was ever elected to the job he may or may not resign from, of course.

Now, some bloggers are unaffectionately referring to Gormless as the "Prime Mentalist" due to stories about supposed temper tantrums.

What then, to make of Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg who has stood up at his party conference and urged voters to make him Prime Minister? Oh yes... like that's ever gonna happen.

8 out of 10 voters who haven't really expressed a preference said they'd rather vote for Cleggy from TV's Last of the Summer Wine.



Cleggy - the LibDem leader rather than the Summer Wine character - thinks it good form to plan to use a speech at his party conference to imply the Conservatives' William Hague is somehow like a member of the Nazi Party.

...which is rather interesting, because this blogger thinks that if New Labour win another term in office, we'll see internment camps in Britain. Look at their tyranny. Read the Guardian and see ZaNuLiebour's track record on civil liberties. Look at it's databases, it's sinister ID card plans. The party that bans everything and criminalises every little thought and action.

If Nick Clegg wants to liken anyone to a Nazi, he should look at the policies of the party he likes to cosy up to sometimes. ZaNuLiebour... the former National Socialist British Workers' Party. We choose our words pointedly...