AN ALTERNATIVE LOOK AT THE WEEKS NEWS

Whilst Tony Blair builds up his air miles by jetting around the world at the taxpayers expense (he apparently needs a new patio heater), the Labour deputy contenders had a round robin with Jeremy Paxman on News Night. Whose idea was it to put Hazel Blears next to Hilary Benn? Somebody who was obviously brought up on The Crankies children’s shows I would suspect! Never mind, the spectacle was so tame it resembled a Women’s Institute love in. With a set that resembled “The Weakest Link”, it was probably Benn who came out on top, with the rest deserving nothing more that a classic Anne Robinson rebuke, “you are the weakest MP, goodbye”.

In the week that Big Brother suffered a triple whammy, specifically it’s telling off for the dreadful antics of it’s celebrity bash, the start of the new channel Four series and more gruesomely the Danish organ donation stunt, it occurred to me what would MP’s be able to give up in the body part department. Poor Hazel Blears would struggle as she clearly has already lost her legs, and Boris Johnson seems to lack his marbles at times. David “Two Brains” Willets is a clear contender, and David Miliband would obviously like to recycle the lot. John Prescott, well we all know what he would like to donate and who he would like to receive it, but I’m going to vote for Jack Straw, a man who has more faces than Wurzel Gummage had heads.

Have a good weekend.