Dick Cheney answers Queen's question!

The Queen has been waiting a long time for the answer to her question about the financial mess we are all in. She asked, "Didn't anyone see it coming?". Nobody stepped up to answer. Our hapless prime minister has spent a whole year denying there was a recession on the horizon. He's still in some kind of denial, so has been no use there.

However, that gun-totting, oil-dealing, war-mongering sidekick of George Bush, by the name of Dick Cheney has come running to the rescue. He now says, “I don’t think anybody saw it coming.” In a garbled interview with the Associated Press’s Deb Reichmann, Vice President Cheney repeatedly insisted that no one anticipated the looming U.S. financial crisis. Aren't you glad he's only got a week to go?

"It's awful!", the Queen said. She meant the crisis, but she could equally have been referring to the behaviour of politicians.