The people's Rock is deepest red

And this sums the whole thing up:

If you have a Northern Rock mortgage and a Labour MP with a narrow majority then paying the mortgage is now optional. Watch the "payment holidays" go through the roof.

And just who is my MP? Yep, a Labour one whose own coat is on a very shoogly nail. None other than Alistair Darling himself! And, like a mug, I've already paid off the mortgage. Perhaps he'll give me one of those inflation-linked government pensions as compensation...