It seems the Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone hasn’t quite worked out what the first word of her title means:

“Because otherwise if you leave it to – I’m going to say men in this case because that’s the way the world has worked – you get terrible decisions. Look at the mess the world is in, and look who has been in charge. I leave it there.”

And kudos to Tory MP Philip Davis for his retort:

“One of the most terrible decisions that men have made was making her Equalities Minister, so I suppose you can see where she is coming from…”

Lord Tebbit blogs:

“A Lib Dem win in Oldham would push the Coalition further Left. I hope they come fourth.”

Cameron Direct:

“If you look at the effect of sales tax, it’s very regressive, it hits the poorest the hardest. It does. I absolutely promise you..it goes very very widely. VAT is a more regressive tax than income tax or council tax.”

Prediction by New Statesman’s James Macintyre made 6 May, 2010…

“I predict that David Cameron, having failed to convince an intelligent electorate that he has fundamentally changed his party, will fail to form a government this week and will never become prime minister.”

Brown to Tom Fletcher, his foreign policy adviser before meeting with international dignitaries:

“Why the fuck are you making me do this?”

Julian Assange lays to rest that little rape allegation…

“I’m not promiscuous… I just really like women”

Sir Terry Wogan sees the light:

“I think the problem with the BBC frankly is that its got too big and unwieldy and there are too many people employed to keep this big machine going and it might be better if there was a bit of slimming down… It seems as if it is the British Building Corporation.”

Former Home Office Minister Bob Ainsworth says…

“Prohibition has failed to protect us. Leaving the drugs market in the hands of criminals causes huge and unnecessary harm to individuals, communities and entire countries, with the poor the hardest hit. We spend billions of pounds without preventing the wide availability of drugs. It is time to replace our failed war on drugs with a strict system of legal regulation, to make the world a safer, healthier place, especially for our children. We must take the trade away from organised criminals and hand it to the control of doctors and pharmacists.”

George Osborne told the Lobby re Hancock:

“You don’t have to go to Zurich to get screwed by the Russians”

The Russians fluster:

“As for the eagerness with which some media in the UK are trying to stage a vaudeville about the worn-out spy plot, this cannot fail to awaken pity. We have no illusions that in Britain there are and will be highly influential forces, who are not interested in the normalisation of Russian-British relations. We hope, however, that the London Government’s stated policy of improving bilateral co-operation will be reinforced by concrete acts.”