And another thing…

GRATEFUL thanks to LabourMatters who sent me a link to this very entertaining story.

Davd Cameron declared his support for John McCain, against convention and, presumably, at a point when he thought McCain could beat the presumptive Democrat nominee, Hillary Clinton.

And yet today, ‘Dave’ spent the whole of Prime Minister’s Questions frantically – and belatedly – climbing back on to the Obama bandwagon.

His party’s got form on this kind of thing, of course. In 1992 Major’s government did a trawling exercise as a favour for George Bush Snr in an attempt to dig up some dirt to use against Bill Clinton.

Ben Brogan of the Daily Mail had a lovely observation over on his own blog yesterday. Reporting from the anti-Bush protests in London the day before, he said that among the usual slogans was one hand-painted sign that said: “Stop the War are rubbish”.

To the point, I suppose. And no, it wasn’t me.

Dozens of angry demonstrators converged on Parliament Square yesterday to protest against the visit by the leader of Britain’s most important ally and biggest inward investor. Fortunately, US networks didn’t carry reports of the demonstrations and the peculiar and often bizarre slogans on the placards. Bush, one proclaimed, is the world’s greatest terrorist, a term used by some as a description for someone whose foreign policy they disagree with. Oddly, I didn’t see any placards criticising (or even mentioning) that great philanthropist, Osama bin Laden, but I’m sure there must have been plenty there; the Stop the War Coalition would never open themselves up to accusations of bias.