Tea-bagging the Chancellor

Labour's change of Shadow Chancellor last week led to a few smutty jokes about Ed Miliband losing the use of his Johnson and jiggling his Balls, but the best puerile comment came from an unexpected source.

Hallelujah for the Financial Times sub-editor, perhaps a frustated Carry On script-writer, who latched on to a comment by George Osborne about the tenacity of Ed Balls and puffed it as a pull-quote. According to the FT, "Osborne expects Balls to be down his throat 24 hours a day".

Well, no one can blame an old public school boy for hankering after a few pleasures, but surely he has an economy to sort out.