terbert wrote on 21. Jan 2011 at 10:27:



She isn't an actress so she really is Yvette Balls

Desperate Den wrote on 21. Jan 2011 at 12:34:


That's a question you could have asked at almost any point over the last 50-odd years, although with Blair's hollow promise to make Government purer than pure - and then promptly presided over a ridiculous number of scandals - it's become more acute in the last decade or so. 

I would prefer to see the positions held by previously by the likes of Ingram, Campbell, McBride (a stand-out for true nastiness) and Coulson banished to be honest.  Government should take a really long hard look at how it meshes with the media and put a stop to what has become a highly mistrusted and cynical process that the public simply doesn't care for.  But that would mean taking hard decisions a little too close to home and there is not a single individual in the Commons prepared to do that.  Especially not the opposition, who have their hands soaked in the blood of previous deviances and continue to indulge in them.

On that point, the story behind Johnson resigning and how it got into press hands allegedly via Balls' cabal is plain disgusting.  I had little time for that odious creep before, but if he is prepared to throw party colleagues to the wolves for the sake of his own ambitions then he deserves a truly awful ending to his blatently self-promoted career.  I hope it comes soon and is suitably humiliating, swiftly followed by that arch-proponent of bare-faced lies Mandleson.  In fact, the mortgage cheater may have to face some tricky questions anyway over the very cosy relationship he enjoys with Lazards, who were involved with the Kraft buy-out of Cadbury's while he was Business Secretary.

I was a TTOI since the first episode, it follows on from enjoying stuff like Bird & Fortune, Private Eye and so on.  According to a couple of friends in a certain monolithic media organisation it had nuggets and behaviour types in it that were not far from reality too.

I really don't think Peter Capaldi at his uproarous best is quite suitable here (he can make my Thai ladyboy joke look like something from a Janet & John book) so a clip of Bird & Fortune is much nicer.

Opti wrote on 21. Jan 2011 at 12:41:



I'm always happy to oblige, Opti.

bluey wrote on 21. Jan 2011 at 13:47:


I more than agree with that Blue.