In reply to Malcolm Tucker's Sweary Aunt:
He has every chance to repeat the success of Francois Hollande in France - now the least popular, most despised president in the history of the fifth republic, while the French economy drops through the floor and their brightest and best run for the borders. We probably won't get the mild amusement of the French bedroom farce in compensation though.
This would be the prime ministerial candidate who "forgot" to mention trivial matters like the economy, the deficit, the EU and immigration? While making a great splash about "people I met in the park" and an ill-thought out, vindictive, petty tax that clearly would raise little and have all manner of peverse effects, while failing totally to address the issue it purports to be for?
He has all the Prime Ministerial qualities of a poor quality fire extinguisher, matched to a ludicrous sense of entitlement. He was recently announcing his "10 year plan" - even the hubris of the Bolsheviks only stretched to 5 year plans.
He might have his uses though - an alternative weapon against ISIS might be to broadcast Ed Miliband speeches on every conceivable wavelength that they will get. After a few days of that, they will be freeing all Yazidi prisoners, building churches for Christians, embracing Shias and declaring their support for liberal democracy, with religion reduced to the private sphere - anything rather than have to listen to EM saying "my friends" in that nasal whine again.
Might be classed as a cruel and unusual punishment though.
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