Saturday, May 19, 2007

It's going to happen...

The bookies seem to think that Alan Johnson, the Minister and Trade Unionist, is set to become Labour's Deputy Leader. We've discussed whether this will have implications for Alan "Not the Minister and Trade Unionist" Johnson, and the general consensus was that in this limited sense, it would only require a small change of emphasis - i.e., Alan "Not the Minister, Trade Unionist, and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party" Johnson. The real issue will come if Alan "Not the Minister, Trade Unionist and favourite to become Deputy Leader of the Labour Party" Johnson [1] ever enters serious politics [2].

[1] Actually this might be ambigous - does the Not obviously refer to the 'favourite to be become' bit.
[2] There's also Alan Johnson, Mark's boss in Peep Show. I have no idea what we'll do if he enters politics.

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