According to the AA, members of the public are likely to revolt against Gordon Brown at the next election not because stabbing is the new street hockey or the polar bears might be melting or even because we seem no closer to bringing or troops home from Afghanistan but because of the cost of motoring.
No, surely not. And there's the best the Labour Party can muster thinking the big threat, the Crewe and Nantwich bogeyman was the daft 10p in the £ caper.
Of course 30 million drivers were not feeling the pinch, make that brutal hiding, of petrol prices, looney car taxes pandering to the bad science of what changes climates and simple 70s style leftist hatred of anyone who has anything, especially a will of their own.
And yes, if you are wondering, I do think Genghis Kahn was a neddlework-loving Liberal.
Now he pours petrol on his own blazing hair by issuing a series of Peoples' Food Directives from Mrs Beeton's how to cook with scraps best seller.
Oh yes, that'll do it. Get the little lady to whip up a few potato cakes and some bubble and squeak from the leftovers and we will all be wealthy enough to shrug off his downright dishonest back dating of car tax banding.
Do you know who I blame for the mess we are in? The last chancellor.
To paraphrase another wild-eyebrowed Scotsman, Fraser from Dad's Army, you're doomed Gordon, doomed.
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