I was chatting a bit earlier with a friend of mine who is on the board at Bradford and Bingley – one of Britain's biggest mortgage lenders. He explained that the banks' current problems have nothing to do with irresponsible lending practices or high risk investment strategies. Reassured, I asked him for some free advice with what to do with a small amount of capital which I have happily found myself with thanks to a fortunate investment of my own – He considered this for a while and then recommend putting half of it on Sunny Jim in the 3.15 at Lingfield and put the rest on whatever dog is starting from trap 3 – trap 3 always wins!
Gordon Brown and his Home Secretary Jackie Smith, meanwhile, have been trying to convince their MPs to support their proposal to lock up people suspected of terrorism for 42 days without trial, 42 being the number you get when you multiply the number of pets Jackie had as a girl by the number of years Tony made Gordon wait to become Prime Minister minus the number you first thought of.
You have to admire Gordon's persistence in pushing through a measure that nobody wants and which will serve no discernible purpose. We shouldn't be surprised. Gordon doesn't know the meaning of the words “back down”. He also doesn't know the meaning of the words “electoral”, “liability” and “resign”. At least that places him several stages ahead of Gearge W. Bush, who doesn't know the meaning of the words “boat”, “cat” and “hatpin”.
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