DEPUTY prime minister Gordon Brown survived a backbench revolt last night after pledging to change his style of leadership and blah, blah, blah, you're not still reading this are you?
Mr Brown, who demoted himself in last week's stupid, pointless reshuffle, told a packed meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party that err… um… something about challenges… Have you seen Drag Me to Hell yet? Apparently it's very good.
Amid scenes involving lots of tedious, middle-aged men in cheap suits, Labour MPs threw their support behind another 11 months of getting paid rather than just four months of getting paid if Mr Brown was to make way for some Cockney chap who was raised by wolves and used to drive a bus or something.
As Mr Brown failed, once again, to understand that he was the problem, first secretary Lord Mandelson sat silently in the corner, stroking his badger while two large, muscular African men smeared handfuls of duck fat into his bare thighs.
For those of you still reading, the rebels then said something about Brown facing a fresh challenge in September by which time Sky and the BBC should have unveiled their autumn schedules, while Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez will almost certainly have been committed to a mental hospital.
Meanwhile Tory leader David Cameron repeated his call for an immediate general election, obviously forgetting there was a really good episode of Frasier on one of the satellite channels, though sources said it was okay because he has a DVD recorder.
Tom Logan, professor of politics at Reading University, said: "It was the episode where Eddie the dog is all depressed. Turns out he had lost his little doll. Great stuff. As for Brown and Mandelson and Cameron and the BNP. None of it matters. At all."
Margaret Gerving, a retired headmistress from Godalming in Surrey, said: "Oh, I stopped giving a fuck about this back in March dear. Have you seen Angels and Demons yet? Apparently it's rubbish."
