Westminster Dour

It's suprising how in 24 hours when I have cooked my first cake (carrot, delicious), been stopped by police ("Looks like suspect for bagsnatch in Chuchill Square") and found a new political hate figure (John Hutton) time can drag.
"If anyone thinks that the right way to respond to Mr Cameron's emergence as Tory leader is somehow for us to move to the left, I've only got one message for them and that's just Get Real. There are no votes, there is no sense in moving in that direction. Labour has never won an election and never will win an election by moving leftwards."
That would be my new hate figure (sorry Trisha, we men are fickle) on last night's Westminster Hour. I'd never heard of the guy before, though already I find it difficult to recall this period of pre-lapsarian innocence. I wrote down some other stuff he said and then re-read it and it was like trying to catch hot air. The historically-challenged replacement for Blunkett at Works and Pensions is a former flatmate of Alan Milburn and has been mentioned as a possible successor to Blair by none other than Will Hutton. Lord fucking help us.
Then there was some Tory saying he would welcome the creation of a Homeland Security department in this country. Security schmurity, do we have to slavishly follow the US in name as well as deed?