Darling's Budget

INT: House of Commons.

Speaker: The Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Loud Cheers

Alistair Darling stands to deliver his budget speech. He opens his little red case and suddenly looks shocked.

He reaches slowly into the case and pulls out and holds up a massive pair of frilly ladies knickers

Gordon Brown: (Whispers to the rest of the front bench) F**king idiot. He's bought the wrong case. That's his wife's overnight bag.

Darling stands there, horrified just staring at the knickers

A shout from the Tory Benches : You can start by trimming a few pounds off the owner of those.

Ends.

I take it this is to no one's taste then.

I like it.

I thought the ending was a bit weak.

It could maybe do with another line, but It more or less works.

I agree with Nil, I think it's a good joke, but it's not a punchline.

Yeap you're right. Darling needs to deliver the punch. Thinking cap on!

Not sure how it would work but I like the idea of him having Jacqui Smith's briefcase and pulling out a couple of XXX DVDs and handfuls of receipts etc.