Quote of the Day

"The turnout at the last election was pitiful and is likely to be even more so at the next one - probably below that in Iraq, where voters ran the gauntlet of bomb and bullet.

"In one of the world’s most secure democracies, how can such disillusion have set in?"

On seeing that Alistair Campbell is back in Downing Street as Blair’s spin master in chief Major had this to say:

"But the identity of the spinner is a side issue. He is merely a mercenary, a hired hand. It is not the monkey, but the organ grinder who makes the music. The culprit is the man who commits them to behave as they do - the Prime Minister."