Sometimes I feel like being silly. Tom Harris’s post Let’s play The Remake Game invited ideas for who should play the lead roles in film remakes.
I suggested a remake of ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still‘ starring Gordon Brown as Gort, the indestructible robot.
Ah, but Gort’s mission was to make us Earthlings live in peace [...]

There was a big numpty frae Fife,
Who brought to the country much strife,
The people said ‘Go’,
But Gordon said ‘No’,
I’m your Dear Leader for life.
His colleagues in turn stuck the knife in,
Not for our good; for their own skin,
Now fifteen percent,
For a party so bent,
Means the people deserve an election.
Of the General type we require,
To consign [...]

The Telegraph claims that Gordon Brown’s spot of bother with ‘colleagues’ over the past week was an attempted coup “with a degree of co-ordination and timing.”
After the Chipmunk’s resignation and according to Labour sources, Miss Flint, the Europe minister, was meant to go next. “We are absolutely certain Caroline [...]

I was hoping to be first with this pun, but it’s so obvious that a few people are going with it, although the Sun’s headline is “Sir Alan made Lord Sugar”. Come on, what a missed opportunity, or is the Sun now trying to be taken seriously as a newspaper?
That would be funny!
Anyway, Alan Sugar, [...]