Political analysts are getting their notepads in a twist about the contradictory messages emanating from recent polls. They are indicating anything from a massive drubbing for the Conservatives by Labour to a modest sized drubbing for the Conservatives by Labour. The Sunday Torygraph yesterday (being Sunday and all that) gave Labour their biggest lead yet - 10 points. That would mean a Labour landslide and Howard’s end. And Blighty thought only a consecrated silver bullet would do the trick.

Unsurprisingly Howard, not one predisposed to conviviality, is in a bit of a sulk about it all. This time its the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair who is getting it in the neck. He is being accused of supporting Labour by having the same surname as the Prime Minister. Kennedy is unhappy about the situation too, and has suggested the commissioner change his name by deed poll to something non-partisan like Barbara.

Elsewhere the Old Labourite Saddam sycophant George Galloway has appeared to remind everyone that the right don’t have the monopoly on undesirables. For those of you who don’t know the gobby Glaswegian here he is at his finest moment:

Yes, that’s a pic of George courting his old flame Saddam Hussein. He was quite smitten with the ex-Iraqi dictator and there was talk of him joining his harem. George was subsequently expelled from the Labour Party, as Tony Blair said that it would be intolerable to have a Saddam concubine on the back benches. Now Galloway has formed his own party called Respeck. He is standing on an anti-war platform and hopes to attract disillusioned Labour voters who think Blair is a murderer of Iraqi children but that Saddam was misunderstood.

We’re sure you’ll meet someone else one day, George.

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