Controversial

The media have been doing their best to hush it up, but apparently there's a general election campaign on - remember, you read it here first. Naturally, I shall be keeping my head down for the duration, but you are probably wondering, given Old Nige's uncanny knack for predicting such things, what the outcome will be. Actually, so am I. Mrs Nige, unnervingly, is convinced there will be a Brown victory. As she also has an uncanny knack for predicting such things, this is worrying, but I console myself that she is also a natural born pessimist. So far, Dave has already found himself aligned, by happy chance, with Gene Hunt and Michael Caine - this I take as a sign that fortune favours him and the wind is in his sails. I predict a narrow victory for his lot. Controversial eh? And now I shall return to more congenial subjects...