The First post’s Mole says that for Gordon Brown to be “truly humbled” whilst he (and his team) has been vigourously and ruthlessly getting MPs to get them to sign up to him is cynical in the extreme.

There is a curious parallel here- Terry Grayshon wrote a letter to the Obtiser last week saying he was also very humbled- whilst the MBI SWAT team spent time off work three weeks before the election targeting hundreds of voters with personalised letters, presumably up to the limit of their allowable expenditure.

I don’t mean to tar the MBIs with the same brush as Labour, they couldn’t even get anywhere close to being as manipulative, sleazy, callous or downright shady in their pursuit of power. I think it is just an unfortunate choice of words with the benefit of hindsight.

Having said that, the MBIs still want to be strong on News Management- there is a letter from Gareth Beevers that reads as though it has been written by others. (You get the feel for these things when you know the people involved).

Anyway, Terry “Uriah” Grayshon has been elected as Deputy Town Mayor. He has joked about it for the last three years and now it is likely to happen.

(The Town Mayor for this year is Joyce Sanders, no surprises there.)

Graham at work tells us that this was his first record. (Although his was the Mamas & Papas version).

We had a lad at school called Geoff , or more frequently, Paddy (Patterson). He started knocking around with two lads called Peter & Paul so inevitably- he was nicknamed Mary…

My first record was Jake the Peg, backed with Sun Arise, by Rolf Harris. I swapped it for my Space Hopper on Radio Newcastle Swap shop when I was about 11 or 12.

I’ll tag all of the BlogPowersphere to pick up their first record meme.

(Spacehopper image from Museum of Childhood)