The Mother Load

‘FIRST, some good news for the embattled Tories – the election of Michael Howard as leader has given the Tory party a two-point boost in the opinion polls.

Hitler used to give his mum a lift to bingo every Monday

Now for some bad news for the embattled Tories – the election of Michael Howard as leader has given the Labour party a four-point boost in the opinion polls.

That is according to this morning’s poll in the Times, which sees the Liberal Democrats being squeezed by the main two parties as its support drops for the fourth month in a row.

Now for some more bad news for the Tories – the poll suggests that Labour are heading for another crushing election victory, with only a quarter of all voters believing that Howard will become Prime Minister.

However, rather than study the Tory leader’s homage to John D Rockefeller to determine Howard’s fate, we should just ask ourselves: ‘Does Michael love his mum?’

This morning’s Indy quotes Scottish research that suggests that mummy’s boys make the best leaders, citing as evidence the fact that Adolf Hitler always carried a photograph of his mother while Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, President George W Bush and Sir Richard Branson were all very close to their old dears.

And, as for Oedipus, well let’s just say that Thebes never had it so good for a while.’

Posted: 6th, January 2004 | In: Broadsheets Comment | TrackBack | Permalink