Sometimes I give up on this country of mine! I mean, can we no longer produce truly first-class lying liars of our own? There used to be a time when the French called us 'perfidious Albion' but nowadays it's more like 'dumb-struck Brits' - and that's 'dumb' as in all meanings of the word. I used to think that our politicians were lying liars but now I realize that none of them have the faintest idea what they're talking about, especially at election time, and thus their need for someone to stick their hand up the back of their jacket, pull the strings and without moving their lips actually say the words for them.
Today, the Tories have some Aussie lying liar to run their campaign so at least there's a chance that 'Dim Dave' will liven us all up with some ripe, Aussie-style, four-letter expletives. The il-Lib-non-Dems have a 'Seth Efrikan' so the 'Cleggeron' will be indecipherable which in his case may well be an advantage. And now, Mr. 'Weirdie Milipede' has appointed Barack Obama's teleprompter operator to come over and feed him his lines. I gather this cove, Axelrod by name but renamed 'Axelgrease' by some wit over at The Coffee House, has a long history working for some of the finest reptiles in the political world including ex-prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti; Richard M. Daly, former mayor of that city which stands for all that is decent and clean in America - Chicago - yeeeees, quite!; Eliot Spitzer of hooker fame; Rod Blagojevich, also of Illinois fame and currently serving 14 years for corruption - read Guido for all the details and more! So, he should feel right at home in the British Labour party!
Apparently, 'Axelgrease' believes that 'personality is more important than policy' which led some wag at The Coffee House to wonder if he's made a mistake and thinks he will be working for David Miliband! As Matthew Norman puts it, rather cruelly, at The Telegraph:
However, in a Marshall McLuhan-esque political age when the medium is so much the message, even Axelrod might find it beyond his superhero powers to transform an adenoidal, overgrown Adrian Mole into the second coming of Obama.