While stitching up the hand of a 75 year old Norfolk farmer, who cut it on a gate while working cattle, the rural doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Gordon Brown and his appointment as Prime Minister. "Well, you know," drawled the old farmer, "this Brown fellow is what they call a fencepost tortoise." Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a fencepost tortoise was. The old farmer said, "When you're driving along a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that's called a fencepost tortoise." The old farmer saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain, "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he definitely doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just have to wonder what kind of idiot put him up there in the first place." Rules are made for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

The sick mind that put W Mc FW up there in the first place was a Mr T Blair and it explains what he was smirking about for 10 years. letters not necessarily in the right order

Yeah, he seemed quite happy to leave Gordon the moron a broken empire - laughing all the way to the bank. "Oh, and please accidentally shred my expenses records for me when I go - ta ta now..."

That -eating grin is even bigger now, I'll bet.