Hot air emitted from the Flatulent Leader? Who’d believe it?

Well, I would for one. And his latest blast rather proves my point. For years politicians have been straining to find a suitable means of updating – amending, electing, abolishing; call it what you will – the House of Lords. And the current tenant of Number 10 has now issued his proposal: leave it alone and it will come home… all the way to the far-flung land of “the North.” To put it another way, he wants to shift it to York.

That will have the merit of increasing the opportunity for their Lordships to file few whopping great expenses claims, because no matter where their assembly is based you can bet your bottom dollar most of them will continue to live comfortably in the London and the Home Counties. It is hard to see any other benefit from it.

Oh well, as long as he and his team of self-assessed weirdos come up with nothing worse than that we might just survive the lord of misrule.