Pauline in tears as the Goat says sorry

JOHN Prescott saying sorry? It seems unlikely but there he was in Manchester, all pius and humble, apologising to the comrades for messing around with one of his diary secretaries and for the uproar over the visit to a Colorado ranch owned by the man...

Clinton shines

AFTER the Lord Mayor's Show, someone has to shovel up the s*** and who better than Bill (I did not have sexual relations with that woman) Clinton. In reality, Clinton gave a brilliant speech in Manchester, entreating the comrades to go back to their...

Farewell to the comrades - and the odds aren't with them

BAD news for the comrades. Corals the bookies shortened th odds on the Tories to win the next election and lengthened those on Labour as a result of Tony Blair's "I did it my way" speech which, begrudgingly, made passing reference to his brooding...

Cherie in a strop - allegedly

OH dear, oh dear - trust the wife to drop you in it. Cherie's blown the whole conference apart by storming away from a television station in the conference hall allegedly saying "that's a lie" during Gordon's speech on just what  wondeful mates...

The comrades arrive in Manchester

WELL its Sunday morning and its p***ing down. Good old Manchester. Yesterday was fine and sunny for the train journey from Euston, but today of course the heavens have opened. Any Tories reading this, please take note. The facilities in the GMEX Centre...

Baker nuked

JUST as we thought that the Liberal Democrates had managed to silence the more offbeat tendency in their up midst, up they popped on the last day of their conference in Brighton with an arrogance of mindblowing proportions. They proposed a conference...

Charlie is their darling

OH how they stamped their feet! Oh how they cheered! Charlie was back on stage. The enthusiasm for the fallen leader was so great among activists that it took Mr Kennedy nearly eight minutes to walk the hundred yards or so from the Hilton Metropole Hotel to...

A day trip to Brighton

THE Liberal Democrat conference is always a happy-go-lucky affair. Far more relaxed than the gatherings of Labour and the Conservatives, security is almost non existent - a cursory glance through my brief case revealing nothing more than a razor,...

Will the wimmin grant Peter his ambition?

PETER Hain proclaims his loyalty to Tony Blair but nevertheless is looking to an era beyond the great Messiah by saying he wants to be Labour's new deputy leader and promising "I will be equally loyal to Gordon Brown, the other towering figure of our...

A beaten leader

THE political silly season has certainly ended with a bang. When his bluff was finally called this week and Tony had to face up to the reality that power and authority were ebbing from him, he looked thoroughly disheartened. There'll be plenty...

Mole - the fat lady of East Anglia

WHEN the fat lady sings, it's time to exit stage left. Tony Blair's time in Downing Street is being counted down after an unlikely revolution led by normally ultra loyal supporters, including Ipswich's very own Chris Mole. Who would have thought...

Spare us Blair Miles to the Middle East

THE grim litany of death from the Middle East has accelerated over the past few days as troops and civilians pay the price for the folly of the West's military adventure in Iraq. The headlines on Press Association stories yesterday made grim reading:...