Then they came for the pies...

Thus Liddle in the ST today:

Ever since it destroyed the economy, the government has been looking around for something important it can bugger up next. It has now found the right target: pies.

In future, by government edict, pies sold from canteens to public-sector workers will have less pastry in them, because the health department has decided that pastry is bad for you. As the only jobs left in Britain soon will be in the public sector, that means everybody will be affected.

This government has always loathed pies, unless they are made with filo pastry and contain spinach and pine nuts. New Labour loathes pies in the same visceral way Thatcher loathed secondary pickets.

That is why Harriet Harman will never become party leader, because she has a face like an empty pie-case in which the pastry has not been sufficiently pricked - the dough becomes damp and lumpen. The MPs look at Harriet and all they see is an ill-constructed pie on legs, screeching at them about women’s rights.