Picture taken at a Glasgow Rangers Supporters Club in the late 80s, note the Rangers / red hand, UDA poster.  Those Scottish (Catholic) Labour MPs who bet so successfully on the outcome of the last election  for Speaker and are now considering backing Bercow, might reflect on some of the traditional songs which John led the gathering in singing.  One thing about us “dirty Fenian fuckers”, we have long memories…

Sadly the picture of Bercow taken on a junket to Israel (not long after the Sabra and Shatila massacre) posing Rambo-style, wearing a comically over-sized Israeli Defence Force uniform whilst holding a machine gun, hasn’t turned up. Yet…

The FT has it “on good authority that John Woodcock, one of Brown’s two spokesmen, is to quit; the move could come soon.” He is after his old boss Hutton’s seat.  Now is he the one who, post McBride, went round telling the Lobby that he would have Guido for breakfast or was it the other one, Michael Dugher?

They come and go so fast in Downing Street nowadays you barely have time to get them in your crosshairs…