TB or not TB

Tony Blair's closest political allies refer to him as TB. Like the disease, Tb/TB is difficult to get rid of. A treatment is available, and comes in a Brown bag, but it takes a while to arrive and there's a risk your tongue can get stuck in the mouth of it.

Tony Blair recently steamed off a GB sticker from the back of his car at the insistence of his wife as she was not willing to have the initials of Gordon Brown emblazened on the car, so creating the illusion of support for his leadership campaign. When a close aide pointed out that GB was also the intials of George Bush, he immediately covered the car with three hundred of the stickers, all personally kissed by himself.

Gordon Brown lives in North Queensferry, with a view over the River Forth. In fact, he lives directly underneath the reddish Brown Forth Train Bridge, or FTB as he likes to say. The train bridge is a huge cantilever metal construction that will last for years. Next to it is the Forth Road Bridge a suspension bridge that looks pretty but is heavily corroded and due to close shortly. They are just like Gordon and Tony, happily co-existing, side by side. Indeed if you look at them closely, you will see that they are not actually side by side, they go at different angles. In a strong wind, or no wind at all, the road bridge spins furiously ignored by the cantilever.

Enough.