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Banana politics delight Tories
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David Miliband was photographed clutching a banana at the Labour conference last week in Manchester, much to the delight of his political opponents, inside and outside his party.
Life-size cardboard cut-outs of the grinning Foreign Secretary committing his fruity faux-pas have now appeared all around the Conservative conference at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre.
At his feet, Tory organisers generously piled carboard boxes of bananas, each labelled with a special Miliband badge.
The great American comedian W.C. Fields famously warned “never work with children and animals”. And avoid fruit with comic overtones, Miliband might add.
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Banana Republic?
You could put lipstick on a silly little boy but he would still be outside the pale!