Donategate - Nice 'n' Sleazy does it

Well done Gordon Brown for putting the sleaze back in British politics.

Whatever your views on the Tories, they did sleaze well. Archer, Hamilton, Norris, and Major himself made politics more interesting for the likes of me, an apolitical thirty-something with few intellectual demands.

But now we have Donategate. It's a fascinating story of love, sex and betrayal and......No, of course, it's not. It's a story of a businessman, David Abrahams, donating more money to the Labour party than he's willing to admit.

And of course 'businessman' is the key word. He didn't give this money to Gordon because he felt he's been looking a bit under the weather recently. Or as a reward for the fantastic way the country has been run in the last 10 years, and the many benefits the UK's businesses have derived from Labour rule.

No. Apparently Abrahams is after planning permission for a business park in County Durham. The police have been called and have started to investigate.

In the great scheme of things I suppose it's not a great bit of sleaze - but I'm optimistic that police investigations will reveal a more sordid slant to the story. One that includes Harriet Harman, Christopher Biggins, a tub of candy floss, a cactus and a mountain goat.

I live in hope.