Unfortunately the old tunes are, well, kinda old. They no longer excite the punters.
So the new approach? Blub. Reformed alcoholic and ex-manic depressive Alastair Campbell has a lip trembling moment on Marr, while Piers Morgan's outrageous hour-long promo piece for Gordon Brown also sees a tear or two roll from Gordon's eye. The professor at the centre of the climate change storm tugged at the heart strings by saying he'd considered suicide. Pathetic.
Oh and a quick word, in passing, on Iain Dale's piece on the possible instruction by Messrs Chaytor, Morley and Devine of the Labour Party's solicitors, Steel & Shamash. My chums on the left (you know, the anonymous losers who never crawl out from under their welfare-engorged holes in the ground) seem to see nothing wrong with Gerald Shamash possibly being instructed by the three accused troughers (who are, after all, innocent until proven guilty). Provided that any new clients see no conflict of interest in Steel & Shamash acting for them as well as for the Labour Party, and vice-versa, there is indeed on the face of it no regulatory bar on Steel & Shamash being instructed by Chaytor, Morley and Devine. I wonder if Labour HQ has therefore consented to Steel & Shamash being instructed?
And we still haven't yet been told if the three charged MPs are on criminal legal aid...