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In this lovely article where Brown was overheard to call a bigoted woman a bigot, the soon to be former Chancellor said about the current former Chancellor and soon to be former PM:

“I hope people will judge him in the round. The fact we are coming out of this recession is down to him in no small part.”

Thanks for that, Darling. I hope that people also remember:

The fact we are in this recession is down to him in no small part.

From the Torygraph:

A “puerile” Foreign Office memo which has thrown the Pope’s state visit to Britain into doubt was circulated by a 23-year-old Oxford graduate who once included “drinking a lot” among his hobbies.

That would be a normal young graduate then.

A little birdie told me recently that a large bank in the city is due to announce another record quarter of profits, and with that another round of record bonuses will follow. The Daily Heil will no doubt bleat on about fat cats and that sort of thing but here’s why they should just sit quietly in the corner with a large box of shutthefuckup.

In the first quarter of this year the bank in question made £1.2bn profits and set aside half of that for bonus payments. It’s fair to assume that as my source described both the profits and the bonus this quarter as record breaking it will be in excess of that figure. The bonus pool for the year is rumoured to be as much as £14bn.

And around five and a half billion of that is going straight to the treasury.

That’s a lot of schools and hospitals.

Or it’s payback of about 3% of the national debt that Gordon has kindly run up for us.

Former Labour minister Ian McCartney, on an act to ban cigarette vending machines in England, NI & Wales:

“[Tobacco is] the only product in Britain that can be sold legally, which routinely kills and injures its customers”

I’m not sure that 863,000 people would agree with that statement though, you cockbag.

Or is calling the initiative aimed at advising police forces on how to increase the number of rapes reported, as well as convictions,  “The Rape Support Programme”  just a wee bit of a misnomer?

Just a thought.