All the country's bankers and all the backbench MPs were dragged into Parliament square by a screaming mob and burnt on a huge pyre. Here is what the papers said...
Daily Mail headline - "Do you think they get it now?"
Simon Barnes, writing in the Times - "The atmosphere was electric, charged with an energy so pervasive, so over-powering, that it alone might have been enough to enflame. Who can say precisely what tipped the crowd over the edge? They were fraught, certainy, and utterly unforgiving. But then passion came when they needed it most..."
In The Sun, Nell McAndrew writes - "It's about time these scumbags got their just deserts. But why burn them next to Churchill's statue? They weren't worthy to lick his boots, let alone fry at his feet."
David Cameron, writing in The Guardian - "Anger towards MPs and bankers is entirely understandable, And I can promise you, today, that anyone standing as a Conservative MP at the next election must be willing to be burnt alive in public, along with his whole family. But we should also understand the bigger picture here, and see that this episode is a result of Gordon Brown's mishandling of the situation. He expects us to believe that when he announced that the leaders of all the banks were having a mass meeting with all the worst MP expenses abusers, he never thought of a crowd forming or any trouble. He's taking us for fools again."
Daily Telegraph (Leader) - "Whilst we take no moral position on the burning (or otherwise) of Members of Parliament and bankers, we have come into possession of certain facts concerning the tax affairs of leaders of the mob involved, and feel it is our public duty to share these..."
Independent headline - "Mob speeds global warming"
Daily Star - "Jordan bedded X factor dropout"
