Foist with their own petard!

Two astute Chinese restaurateurs decided that too much publicity was enough recently. They had just been fined a total of £20,000 because live cockroaches were seen in their restaurant in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. One was even seen crawling on the food about to be served. After the case the two set out to buy up all the copies of the local edition of the Bristol Evening Post on sale in their area so that no-one would read the report of the proceedings and the verdict. They scoured the whole area - up to 15 miles from Weston - and between the two of them bought up about 1,400 copies of the newspaper. The whole thing backfired on them because it was such an unusual situation to sell that many newspapers that extra copies had to be supplied. Newsagents told of locals complaining that they could not buy the newspaper. The newsagents said men came in to buy all their copies of the Post and said they wanted copies of an article about George Best. There was no article on George Best in that edition! The national newspapers got hold of the story and most of them blasted the story prominently in their pages, including pictures of the two men, their restaurant and its location. Some even printed representative pictures of cockroaches - enough to put anyone off eating there. Poor buggers - far from just local coverage of their case, they now have had their faces and story plastered over the whole nation. Serves them right - they would have done better just to resolve to make sure their establishment rebuilt its previously excellent reputation for really good food and service.
Public schoolboys at play . . .
So David Cameron (who's he?) is the new leader of the Conservative party. What a surprise. His first task was to face Blair at Prime Minister's Questions. He seemed to do quite well - scoring points from Blair by agreeing with most of his policies - what a refreshing change political leaders admitting they agree with each other. That just confirms the belief that I have long held - Tony Blair is the true leader of the Conservative Party.