After the children's TV character Peppa Pig failed to show for a Labour campaign stunt, the Daily Telegraph has gone a step further and claimed her for the Tory party. What with her grandfather's boat, her parents' detached house with its nice kitchen curtains, and her own Thatcherite can-do attitude, it's clear to "any parent" that she "comes from a long line of well-bred, well-fed Conservatives". Clear to any Telegraph-reading parent, at least. The Sun, meanwhile, which broke the Peppa story yesterday, determines that Upsy Daisy is Green, Bob the Builder a Tory, along with Thomas the Tank Engine - what, even after rail privatisation? - and Dora the Explorer a Lib Dem, on the grounds that she's foreign. Labour gets Roary the racing car.
