Draper has finally gone and McBride has gone AWOL - to such an extent that even the government can't find him. It probably makes me a bad person, but I can't help but smile at the misfortunes of others in this case. 

There is a lesson to be taken from all this - namely that if you have a government as corrupt, inept, deceitful and odious as Brown's administration then the turds will certainly float to the top of the pile until their behaviour becomes so outrageous that they just have to go. But, of course, this oafish culture will only really change when the person at the top goes. Which means the sooner Gordon Brown is gone, the better. 

Which is a truism, if ever there was one...