Brown: ‘Public credit Labour for the crisis’

The prime minister has hailed Labour's Glenrothes by-election victory as a VOTE OF CONFIDENCE in the government as the economic crisis starts to bite.

Yet critics have LAMBASTED the Labour leader, saying that claims of widespread public enthusiasm for mass job losses, shortened working weeks and soaring inflation "beggar belief".
But as one beaming local explained to Happy Claptrap, “Thanks to Labour, my mortgage has gone down, the high street sales don’t stop and, best of all, I don’t have to go to work any more.”

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott said, "Alex Salmond predicted the SNP would win – and he got it spectacularly wrong. In fact, he couldn’t have been more wrong, because not only did they not win, they lost. How can a man wrong by 100% be trusted to control a country in crisis?”

But the sour Scotsman responded bitterly. "I don't like their campaigning style. It was far too successful."

In the football world, a vote of confidence is generally understood to mean an imminent sacking.