Obviously the big political news today is the withdrawal of John Sergeant from Strictly Come Dancing. He says he feared he would win.
Hmmm. Guido is suspicious, you don’t think he has been got at? It was after all only a few days ago that Mandelson said he wanted to be on the show….
UPDATE : Mandy has, this really is genuine, released a statement “John Sergeant should not bow out… He has become the people’s John Travolta and he should be a fighter, not a quitter… “. The Guidoisation of politics continues.
Normal service will resume after lunch.
Paul Flynn’s blog has occasional gems, such as describing Peter Hain as a “shape shifter”. The parliamentary authorities have withdrawn his allowance because it is partisan. Given that if blogs are boring and non-partisan no one reads them, isn’t it a given that they should not be funded by the taxpayers? John Redwood pays for his out of his own pocket. So should the rest of the troughing politicians.
