London’s conservative Mayor Boris Johnson on PM Gordon Brown:

“A sherry-crazed dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette.”

Not bad.

Brown seems to be an excellent target.

“The House has noticed the Prime Minister’s remarkable transformation in the last few weeks from Stalin to Mr Bean.” That from Vincent Cable, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats.

And going back a bit in history, Denis Healey once memorably compared being attacked by Geoffrey Howe to “being savaged by a dead sheep.”

Americans have some ways to go.

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