Pointing to the future

It's happened again. A year ago today, Ming was photographed on the seafront at Brighton in front of the burnt out west pier. It was universally acknowledged to be a big mistake, allowing headline writers easy jokes about a burnt out leader whose ambitions were crashing into the sea. Huge black mark against the leaders' media team for allowing it to happen.

This morning, Ming was taken to the "earth ship", a eco-friendly public building. They process their own sewage, have solar pnels, all very impressive .... except that during the course of the photoshoot, Ming was pictured pointing down a toilet - which is where some believe he is taking the Liberal Democrat party.

Ming's press handlers have failed - again - to heed the lessons of pr 101. When when shown the picture, his spokesman, (who was still not aware of the photo two hours after it was taken) replied: "ah hah. Okay. Right. That's where they process the sewage inside the waste factory," adding that he was looking after print reporters and Ed Davey had been with Ming at the time.

Good to see we've already got the blame game going...