Don't let's hang about
Let's have some mischief
- Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Another magnificent Tory coup de théâtre! Michael Heseltine doing his Tarzan bit in ’76 and now after a gap of a mere 32 years, David Davis’s master stroke. In fact, Davis couldn’t have done better if he had taken Heseltine’s tactic a step further and dashed Gordon Brown’s brains out with the Mace. Certainly it would have been kinder. But I suppose the otherwise dull as ditchwater Davies lacks Heseltine’s natural flamboyance.
Just when the hapless Brown thought things were going to settle down, just when he thought he might at last be granted the space to fulfil his dream and reconstruct himself as a statesman (it's cruel to snigger), he now faces the prospect of David Davis on the News every night talking about the erosion of civil liberties under Labour. And then there is the little matter of the looming Tanker strike.
One wonders if Gordon is going to have to take an immense gulp, swallow his pride and call on the Machiavellian mendacities of Peter Mandelson. Certainly it would be a mistake to rely on the kittenish hisses of dear little Jacqui Smith, who last night actually claimed that Davis’s move was a sign of Conservative "disarray". Talk about the pot calling the kettle Brown! Can there be any truth in the rumour that Tony & Cherie Blair go around humming ‘Things Can Only Get Better’?
