Some blogs recycle second-hand jokes but you won't find any of that going on here. This gag must be third-hand, at least.
Still, I think it's worth it.
God summoned President Bush, Prime Minister Putin and Lord Mandelson to heaven. He told them mankind had been so bad He was going to destroy the world.
Putin returned to the Duma and said he had two pieces of bad news. First, contrary to what the Communists had taught, God existed. Second, the world would end tomorrow.Bush told Congress he had one bit of good news, one bad. God did exist - but he was going to destroy the world tomorrow.
Mandelson returned to Gordon Brown and, spinner that he is, said he had two pieces of good news. First, that he, Peter Mandelson, really was one of the three most important people on the planet. And second, that David Miliband would never lead the Labour Party.
It's from a speech by Jeremy Hunt, the Tory culture spokesman. Londoner's Diary in the Evening Standard picked it up earlier this month but I only spotted it today when John Rentoul put it up at Open House today.
