Absolutely delighted to see George Osborne and Ed Balls have stopped sticking out their tongues at each other and have settled down to some serious business.
Never mind that the economy is going down the plughole, the Chancellor and his wannabe have decided to have a Twitter competition.
Yes really.
George has taken to the Twittersphere with gusto whacking out four, count them, four tweets and harvesting a handsome 35,000 followers.
Meanwhile Ed has carefully been cultivating 78,000 followers but has sent a thousand times as many tweets.
Treasury boffins have been doing the math and have concluded that George is getting a much better rate of return for his effort than his political counterpart.
But while George hasn’t tweeted much, he has certainly received a deluge of tweets. One or two are even printable.
Apparently not many of the messages end with the letters “lol” which, as George’s boss David Cameron found out to his excruciating embarrassment, stand not for “lots of love” but “laugh out loud”.
It’s no secret that George and Ed trust each other about as far as either could spit a burning rat which is understandable given they both peddle statistics, as in “lies, damned lies and…..”
But surely they wouldn’t stoop so low as to cheat on a little Twitter competition? Would they?
Well, a little bird tells me that George may not be playing exactly by the rules.Word is that he will be getting help to run his account by party officials.
Glad to know my taxes are not being wasted.
But, hey, why tweet yourself when you can pay someone else to do it for you?
I’ll be following…