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Black Friday

White van man

What next as Labour realise they need the votes of people they previously despised - Harriet Harman "honestly what's not to like about Page 3, it's only flesh . . . respect those saucy chicks"

Wubble

"A large crisis requires a large plan . . . . . . . get me two pencils and a pair of underpants"

"Right listen up Balls - we tell the people that the party faithful are unswervingly 100% full square behind me and I will be standing outside the door of No.10 Downing Street on May 8th next year before you can say . . . . . . . wubble"

As if anyone needs reminding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I'm a celebrity . . . Get me out of here

Some consolation that the ban on competing in Paralympic sport will last for the duration of the 5 year sentence and in a years time when in all likelihood the remaining 4 years will be served under house arrest - that should at least prevent the inevitable flood of TV reality show offers.

Yes . . . Yes . . . Yes

Milibands biggest fan

Len McCluskey gets passionate about Eds' return to socialism, ditching the Blairites and the prospect of the unions holding the country to ransom once again.

Heads I win . . tails you lose

So Miliband is to give trade union members the choice to ‘opt in’ to donating £3 to the Labour Party.

This is revolutionary by all accounts and would reverse a centuries old process whereby union members seemingly had £3 automatically deducted from their wage packet to be siphoned off to Labour HQ and in the process, like it or not, they became an affiliate member of the party. That is unless members exercised their right to ‘opt out’ of doing so.

So why didn’t they?

Call me cynical but I suspect the process of ‘opting out’ in the prehistoric world Len McCluskey et al live in - is deemed act of betrayal akin to crossing a picket line. Life I imagine would be pretty intimidating on the shop floor for those bold enough to express the belief that union membership does not assume unqualified support for the Labour Party. So they didn't. That’s how unions work and how tossers like Red Len command their £100K+ salaries  

WikiTraitor

Edward Snowdens' choice of 'safe' countries was always limited for him to avoid a very lenghty chunk of his life behind bars back in the USA.  No doubt the irony will not be lost on him that in the countries he has used so far en route to Ecuador - a 'whistleblower' would almost certainly be a very dead one long before they even contemplated how to get to the airport and what they might want to say to a sympathetic hack.