I think this is an NSC Norman Baker EXCLUSIVE

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

I have been tipped off that Norman Baker is quitting as an MP at the next election. He will not contest the Lewes seat.

You have not been charged for this information!

 

[Gwylan]

Please let it be true.

And please let it be for a scandal ...preferably involving goats

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

Hmmmm, I'm now hearing that this might all be a "malicious rumour".

Good job I don't work for the world's most trusted news organisation or anything.

Sorry everyone.

 

[Brovion]

Hmmmm, I'm now hearing that this might all be a "malicious rumour".

Good job I don't work for the world's most trusted news organisation or anything.

Sorry everyone.

Never mind. If we keep saying he's going to quit because of all those sex and drug rumours it MIGHT become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

 

[Commander]

And since when have we let a good story be ruined by the truth on here?

 

[Barry Izbak]

This is still probably enough for a story to appear in the Argus sometime this week.

 

[Gwylan]

And since when have we let a good story be ruined by the truth on here?

Exactly. Remember the editor's wise words in Man Who Shot Liberty Valance "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

 

[Martlet]

That would be a very strange decision, as Nick Clegg sound-checked him yesterday as a key man in a LibDem Cabinet [sic]