Bummer

However bad New Labour are - and they are baaaaaad, please let no-one make the mistake of voting for the Tories - I was astonished just the other day to see John Selwyn Gummer resurrected as a Tory spokesman for something or other, popping up on some TV programme, and talking his own unique brand of utter sh*te. Here's a reminder of Bummer in 1990 - force-feeding a McDonald's burger to his grand-daughter to demonstrate that despite mad cow disease, British beef was perfectly safe - of course, within 2 years sufficient information had emerged that people (including Bummer) would have fed plutonium to their children rather than a British beef-burger