New Labour asylum has restless inmates!

There was a saying that "the inmates have taken over the asylum" meaning that the leadership was of poor quality, so much so that even a person with diminished mental faculties could be perceived as doing better. New Labour has been a party of intellectual spivs cosying up to anyone with a low threshold for financial and moral integrity. Hence the insatiable desire to be seen with money launderers, bogus banking bosses and the more seedy side of life. William Booth once remarked that the Devil shouldn't have all the best tunes, so he took the tambourines and trumpets out into the streets for good rousing Christian singing. I'm the first to acknowledge that the Devil has the best ways to an easy life. He's very good at manipulation, very good at deception and top of his game at temptation.

Do I judge them all for wanting easy credit to flow, for everyone to have jam today? No, but I do want them at least to admit that all these dodgy dealings over the last two years have been based on a bubble of hot air. Instead of coming clean, the New Labour cabinet is beginning to show signs of a pub brawl in the making. Harriet Harman has been simpering in the corner, plotting on the one hand, issuing easy denials on the other. Added to this mix is the Hell's Angel and biker supremo, Hazel Blears. Now she knows how to rev up a machine, and the New Labour machine has been running on a chemical concoction unknown to mankind, so she is trying to make sure no proper petrol gets near it. I see all the signs of an imploding punch-up on its way.

And are there any serious journalists out there who could possibly think Yvette Cooper could replace Gordon Brown as Prime Minister? This is not CBeebies!