Malcolm Rifkind was less than impressed by Ed comparing himself to Maggie:

“He has as much claim to mantle of Margaret Thatcher as Silvio Berlusconi had to that of Julius Caesar.”

Giles Coren tells James Delingpole:

“I’m not with you on climate change, as you know, but that Nazi c*** Bell wants nailing to a f***ing windmill.”

Mark Reckless: “To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether his Department plans to support the European Year of Citizens 2013 campaign.”

Brandon Lewis: “No.”

What did one disgraced billionaire media mogul say to another? Here’s Conrad Black on Rupert Murdoch:

“He’s a psychopath…like Stalin, except he doesn’t kill people.”

IDS on rumours that Mitchell will be sacked and made High Commissioner to Rwanda:

“I hear there are no gates in Rwanda”. 

The NUJ square up to the Guardian over potential sackings:

“We do not expect this to be resolved by compulsory redundancies.”

Snoop Dogg on why he won’t be voting for Mitt Romney:

“Bitch got a dancing horse.”

Ronnie Corbett in the first episode of his new Radio 4 sitcom:

“Sharing a bathroom with a younger man? I’m not the Foreign Secretary, people will talk“.

Boris on Louise Mensch’s resignation:

“I think it’s literature’s gain“.

James Delingpole on running for Corby:

“Though I can’t claim to have taken quite as many drugs as Louise Mensch apparently has, I did make a pretty heroic go of it in my younger, longer-haired days.”