Power, Chocolate Biscuits, And Damage Limitation

This article (gacked from British Spin) suggests that government has given up on power.

Well. I'm slightly curious as to where all the power's going to go. The Tories don't exactly, ahem, inspire confidence, what with their leadership struggles and slightly snotty public image. Indeed, the very same article points out that they did exactly the same thing after 1992. The fact that I don't agree with much of their politics isn't really relevant, the point is that their chaotic meanderings seem to "want to be in power" even less than Labour's.

And that leaves us with who? The Lib Dems? I know I'm not overly up on my political history, but seriously, the only power wielding I remember anyone connected with them doing was old Lloyd George, and that was, shall we say, a while ago. Having done a quick bit of reading that now turns out to have been a coalition government. The Lib Dems don't really seem very serious about power either.

Personally I don't think Labour are going to collapse any time soon, no matter how hard they seem to be trying. There isn't anyone to take their place, and the power's got to go somewhere.

Or else we might wake up the next morning and have to start looking down the back of the sofa for the political power hot potato that nobody really wants. We might as well have a look for the weapons of mass destruction and the dodgy dossier too whilst we're at it. I can see the search already.

"This power thing we're looking for, what exactly does it look like?"

"Dunno. Feels kind of tingly when you get close, though. Hugh Grant mentioned chocolate biscuits."

Democracy, indeed. Damage limitation more like.