Lord Emsworth preferred pigs to politics. He "had never desired to mould the destinies of state, to frame its laws and make speeches in the House of Lords", choosing instead to devote his time to fattening his prize-winning sow, the Empress of Blandings.
If P G Wodehouse's swine-loving peer had ventured up to Westminster in recent weeks, he might have felt at home. Noses in troughs, expenses-gobbling MPs have been performing a passable imitation of the Gloucester Old Spot. Now, however, the porcine metaphor has changed. The Parliamentary Labour Party, engaged in a headlong rush over the cliff face, appears to be modelling its behaviour on the Gadarene swine.
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