Oh yes it is!

[Charles Bannerman]

On the basis of what I saw on the news tonight, the pantomime season is well and truly with us. A Germanic old wifie in her 80s with a strange velvet sparkly thing on her head parades around with 30 feet of carpet trailing behind her, helped by wee boys in scarlet suits with white lace. Walking beside her is a doddery old Greek (Danish actually) geezer in an absurdly flash naval uniform. She sits down and starts sounding off about affairs of state in some kind of alien accent which is barely identifiable as English. The folk listening to her are there because a grown man in a black velvet suit and white tights has hammered with a stick on a door which was then slammed in this face.

Yes... this is how one of the world's seven largest economies goes about announcing its business for the next 12 months....

Edited December 3, 2008 by Charles Bannerman

[caley100]

And its a very expensive panto.

[+Gringo]

...then the circus will start again - the clowns are already waiting in the wings.