Quote of the day

Though both of these quotations are referring to different incidents involving the same characters they are both very apt for today:

"He has a fine intelligence, but sometimes I am afraid he misuses that intelligence. He gets above himself. But now he has been cut down to size and I think probably he will learn a very hard lesson from what has happened."

- Peter Mandelson

speaking about

Derek Draper in 1998

"Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising - like everyone else, I’ve long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things - it’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening the situation...You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense."

-Daniel Hannan MEP speaking about Gordon Brown in March 2009