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It was going to be a play on words (Spain, ZP, The Sun [paper], failing Brown, Labour, etc) but it didn’t quite work. Heh ho.

The Sun has announced that they are backing the Tories (We’ve gone blue, have you?).

Rats, sinking ships and a bright new future all come to mind.

ZP, who graciously travelled to Brighton to bestow some glamour on the otherwise dull Labour conference (ole Prince of Darkness Mandelson comedy routine excepting), shared a few tips with Brown on how to win the next elections.
No, nothing about using the Police and Judiciary to hound your political opponents into the ground. Nor did he advise him to change his name to David Cameron to confuse the voters.
Apparently Brown must be “loyal” to the “true spirit” of the “European left”, whatever that means.
Brown returned the compliment by presenting ZP as a man whose grandfather had been shot by fascists, and said he was an inspiration to us all. ZP return the compliment by talking about how Brown had saved the world during the recent financial crisis.
All in all, a complete ’60s left wing hippie love in, it seems.

Until, according to El País, someone brought up the matter of the Czech President, a man with the scary sounding name of Vaclav Klaus, who, in true Transylvanian spirit (yet, I know where Czech is, it’s poetic license), threatens to destroy the harmonious spirit of Europe by throwing the EU treaty out.Many black looks all round at the mention of this party pooper.

Someone then mentioned David Cameron again, and for some reason ZP seems to think that when Cameron gets in he’ll cast a shadow over Spain’s EU presidency. Not sure why?

Labour is always a little disconcerted when a true member of the European Left turns up; they know they should share the same ideals, but can never quite screw up the courage to face their dark little souls and say “should we embrace the whole concept of social totalitarianism and really go towards the legislation of every little thing that comes to mind?”

As opposed to just faffing around passing useless laws that people can ignore but go down well in the soundbites on TV. Like the proposed regulation of banking bonuses.

(Jeremy Clarkson, is a famous car nut and journalist who presents one of the BBCs most popular shows, Top Gear, among other things, for those of you who don’t know.  )

J.C. is in the news for insulting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown “a one eyed Scottish idiot” while in Australia and compared him to the Australian PM.

The controversial presenter compared Mr Brown to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, shortly after Mr Rudd had addressed the country on the severity of the global financial crisis.

Clarkson said: “He [Rudd] genuinely looked terrified. The poor man, he’s actually seen the books.

“[In the UK] we’ve got this one-eyed Scottish idiot.

“He keeps telling us everything’s fine and he’s saved the world and we know he’s lying, but he’s smooth at telling us.”

Now, what gets me is that so far nobody has complained about him calling Brown a liar or an idiot. He’s been attacked for calling him “one eye” by the Royal National Institute fot the Blind. And the Scottish Labour chief minister said “Most people here are proud that the prime minister is a Scot”.

Yet… I have yet to find a single complaint about actually insulting Brown. Hmmm. Guess not even a politician wants to tarnish his soul that much!

(later: Dad just sent me this link: Clarkson factually correct! True and funny.)

You may remember that petition on the Downing Street website to make Jeremy Clarkson the new PM of GB. Well, Gordon has replied in a short video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNy1w4DV5Hw

Very wisely, Gordon decided to switch off comments on this video.