MGM - the remark was addressed to you because of our mutual cockup about the king of Belize (which happily rhymes with "sleaze").

You really really think, Don, that Cameron will pursue any socially beneficial policies if erected? The Sieg Heil brigade are already and transparently re-planning "Kinder, Kuche, und Kirche" for women.

But back onto track - it's the individual malign self-seekers I'm after spotlighting - and apart from the hasbeen Fettes public schoolboy, the profitable Mandelbaum, and possibly the conversion of the Kinnocks to the pigtrough in Brussels, what has New Labour (or even Old Labour if we discount T Dan Smith) got to compare with the transparent denial of democracy posed by those I named above (including the modern-day vicar of Bray on steroids, Murdoch). They would need duck-houses big enough for a Spruce Goose.