Fun and Laughter on a Summer Holiday

The Glorious Successor has asserted his leadership with characteristic uncompromisicality, by banging his finger on the table and ordering his new, rejuvenated cabinet of sub-Blearses and third choices to be careful with their holidays. In so far as the Glorious Successor has succeeded in making himself understood to native English speakers, this apparently means that, since the Government is widely perceived as being dangerously out of touch with the people, ministers should not go far away from Westminster. Ministers will also be required to announce two "items of business", which presumably translates as press releases, every week from the end of July until the anniversary of the 11 September terrorist attacks on America - a day, like VE Day or the day of the Britain's Got Talent final, on which the press releases virtually write themselves.

By contrast, Daveybloke believes that his Cuddly Conservatives "deserve a good holiday" for being ahead by default in the polls; and of course many of the shadow cabinet still have real jobs which will require appropriate fiscal discretion strategies if they are to continue living and labouring for the public good in the style to which they are accustomed.