Curry is King .... or The Bhuna Bailout ....

Such is the craziness of this current end of days situation that all the papers today are carrying the story about how Gordon Brown went to bed early last night safe in the knowledge that the bank bailout would be smooth .... since Alistair Darling ordered a £245 curry takeaway from his favourite curryhouse for the Masters of the Universe that met with him in order to end this descent into chaos ....

As a proud card-carrying brown person ... i'm rather tickled that poppadoms and pickles were the sustenance for our 'saviours' .... no longer is it the beer and sandwiches of old Labour ... the caviar and chapampagne of the Tories .... or even fish and chips of the BNP .... chicken tikka masala - surely britain's greatest export - is the the flavour of the moment .... the stuff that society runs on when the going gets tough ....

I can only think of the classic Goodness Gracious Me sketch when the uncle claims everthing as Indian ....



But sadly ... it all leaves a rather nasty taste in the mouth (i'm loving this terrible punning) .... since the Labour spin machine just makes us wary that we're being purposefully manipulated into thinking
a) they're just normal people like any of us .... or
b) oooh look how multiculturally pc they are - please angry brown people don't hate us for branding you all as terrorists.... or ....
c) the discussions to avert the apocalypse took the form of a rather amiable curry on a kitchen table with Darling being in complete control and not a knife-edge debate on the coming of hell - oh-how-very-quirky-British-stiff-upper-lip-and-not-like-all-that-fuss-the-americans-made we are ... (actually the last one i rather like ... i mean really ... how nice and civilised that our politicians sorted the mess out over dinner and not with some nasty melodrama)

Of course .... it may just be that our Chancellor thinks best with a naan and tarka dal inside him ... and who am i to disagree ....

Naturally the papers are going wild about this tasty little tidbit ..... Hardeep Singh Kohli in the Guardian today is calling it the Bhuna Bailout in a rather saccharine coquettish piece comparing the banks and building societies to the nation's favourite dishes ...

To which one wit has commented ....

King Prawn Rogan Josh : £12.50
Poppadums : £5
Lamb curries : £40
Chicken curries : £30
Tandoori rotis : £20
The knowledge that you can distract the taxpayers with talk of curry while shafting them for £50 billion : Priceless
There are some things which money can't buy. For everything else there is the Guardian.

Amen.