Reluctance to Comment: Saddam and Jackiey in Same Post

Iain Dale has noticed that both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown took approximately five days to comment on the botched execution of Saddam Hussein, following the cherry picked charges brought against Saddam Hussein, and of course the getting on for four years of mayhem and confusion of his Mother of all Botches, Iraq.

My view is that Tony Blair may have had something ready for the expected case of the execution of Saddam Hussein with no, er, serious hitches. But he didn't want to get tied in knots with the cameras of the world in his face when the whole thing went so sadly, yet in many ways so very appropriately pear-shaped.

Whereas, notes Mr Dale blogger-by-appointment, it was different on the perhaps slightly less incendiary matter of Shilpa getting the rough end of some right old-fashioned chavi behaviour from the Troika-of-'Telligence wot is Jo O'Meara, Danielle Lloyd and Jade Goody.

Aided and abetted natch by the rapier mind of Jack Tweed, the latter pair having something quite Dickensian about 'em, with names to suit.

The pair - that's Brown and Blair not Jack and Jade - were able to state quickly that (a) they hadn't seen the show(s) and (b) they are against racism in all its forms. Really, as a speaking gig this latter case is so much easier and Iain Dale should perhaps - just this once - kick off his clever clogs and give Labour's B&B terrors a break. This is uncharacteristically petulant.

Just how much blogging did Mr Dale produce on the matter of Saddam's lynching? And forgetting Guido, who inevitably found the nastiest vid and stuck it up, who on my reading list did do that much if anything on it?

On the class war that is raging in fits on CBB Lynne Featherstone MP is one blogger who has tried her best but failing feebly to set some standards. But perhaps, just perhaps, as the newly reshuffled "Shadow" Millionairess for Poor Countries dim Lynne felt that any Indian getting a hard time, even a beautiful, intelligent and multi-millionairess Indian, needed her kindly intervention? But she's had a case of cold feet.

CHANNEL 4: Am I the only one to be mightily relieved on hearing that Tweed's four letter description of the Bollywood star was not "Paki"? They say it was the more acceptable word "Cunt". Though I notice that one of these words is a tinny two syllables, whereas the other is a woody one. How can they be confused by an alert lip reader? Perhaps there were a total of three of Jack Pratt's nasty syllables?

ORGANGRINDER thought this. Meanwhile THE TORYGRAPH TODAY under "Arts" claims Jade outshines everyone else. "She's a right l'il ray of sunshine mi chavi is", as Jackiey might say. The controversial GUARDIAN piece from Germaine Greer meanwhile is getting syndicated globally.

UPDATE: Daily Telegraph link has been corrected. Apologies. But wot woz they onabaht? Some spot on comments. Used to buy The Daily Telegraph as I was brought up their sport and their crossword - strangely for a upper working class socialist household - but one of my tutors, a donnish Oxon Reader spilt tea on one and claimed rather accurately that mopping up tea was all it was really good for. Hasn't got any better ...