Now boffins have discovered that Cherie Blair’s friends can cause cancer as well as being, frankly, distasteful.

Docktawh Gillian Keith, speaking from her underground nutrition dome said, "Ever since Boris Johnson told me about it, I have been trying to cure sacrificing goats to a gilded image of Ken Livingstone with a powerful mix of micronutrients, goji berries and spirulina."

She added "As it turns out sacrificing goats to a gilded image of Ken Livingstone is almost completely identical to cancer, in how it affects the balance of our chakras. And everybody knows that sacrificing goats to a gilded image of Ken Livingstone is mostly caused by Cherie Blair’s friends, who are known to promote a negative orgone balance in the red layer of the energy rainbow."

Of course liberal-minded multiculturalists will no doubt assume that comparing Cherie Blair’s friends to carcinogens is "racist", but they can’t deny the simple facts of the case. And the Mail is happy to back Gillian’s words; she gave us a fresh insight into Broken Britain by saying, "We are coming slowly, painfully to an autumn of understanding, I hope it will be followed by a winter of common sense.".