Yes, Prime Minister

Gordon Brown is muttering about giving MPs (not ministers) a pay rise of £3k p.a. at a time when the electorate would happily string 'em all up for helping themselves to more than they are entitled to. Way to go, Gordon...

Now why would he do that, when public sector workers are about to be asked for pay restraint (yes, by Labour) just six months before an election which he is as good as certain to lose and which will terminate his political career, assuming his colleagues and backbenchers decide to maintain him in office until then?

Here's what Prime Minister Jim Hacker had to say in this evening's episode:

Nurses and teachers can't vote against me until the next election. Backbenchers can vote against me at ten o'clock tonight.

Ah, yes.