Dancing while Rome burns

Vince Cable - who should be quite busy given he's the Secretary of State for Business - has found time to appear on Strictly Come Dancing's Christmas Special.

This is wonderful news. A government minister who is personally responsible for a full-frontal onslaught on the poor and hard-working - and publicly promised to abolish student fees but then more than doubled them - is offering himself up for judgement on a low-rent game show. It's a bit pathetic, but it's the closest we'll get to a referendum on him.

So - I suggest a boycott of his dances. Everybody switch off every time Nero Vince steps onto the dance floor. Don't vote for him: imagine the screen as the display flashes up a big fat zero - or perhaps 1 from his wife.

Can you imagine Stafford Cripps, Attlee, Disraeli or Gladstone taking time off from governing to do this? Especially in a time of hardship?

Let the mockery commence.