You must be 'avin' a bath!

Nothing ever seems to change does it? Tony Blair came to power on the promise of getting rid of Tory ‘sleaze’ and now we see how he’s been financing his party by dubious ‘loans’. In the past we had all the sex scandals that characterized the Conservatives and now today I read that John Prescott has admitted to ‘bonking’ a secretary. I guess he ought to join Blunkett in the corner.

Perhaps worst of all is Tony's depressing trend of ignoring responsibility. He did it when he brought back Blunkett and now he's doing it again with Clarke. And is it just me, or does this recent affair not have a distinct echo of how Bush refused to accept Rumsfeld's resignation?

Ah well, thats Britain... over here its not much better. The political fall out of yesterdays Social Democrat reshuffle has begun with the critics circling Helle Thorning Schmidt like vultures. Her attempt to bring stability to her party has been widely regarded as a sign of obvious weakness. I think its becoming fairly obvious that nothing is going to save Helle Thorning Schmidt short of bloody minded tenacity and a willingness to lay about some stick on her part and since she doesn't appear to be that strong a leader, I can't see how the Social Democrats are going to be able to regain their former position of strength.

In the mean time, a nine year old Danish boy has lost his lower leg as a result of the Egyptian bombings and three other Danes are still in hospital having paid the price for their holiday in Egypt.
The EU of course doesn't want us to refer to such terrorism as 'Islamic'. The use of the word Jihad in connection with terrorism is also to be discontinued if Bruxelles has its way. The argument is that we ought not to tar all Muslims with the same brush, and thats fair enough.

What I wonder though is how the media is supposed to refer to groups like Islamic Jihad if they're not allowed to use the word Jihad in connection with terrorism? Maybe, like Hamas, we're not supposed to call them terrorists at all...?