Thunderbirds Have Gone

Is that it, then. Is your political career over as soon as your big ambition to be leader is cruelly snatched away.

I hope that if one of my sisters were to prove more successful as a poet than me (it wouldn't be difficult but I don't think either of them are currently trying), I wouldn't immediately sling it all in.

But perhaps there's a chance that Ed Milliband's election as Labour leader signals the end of Thunderbird puppets as model politicians. It probably actually started with some elements of Margaret Thatcher's re-invention but reached its paragon example with Blair, who was followed up by Cameron.

But, poor David, it must be horrid for him.