Even Simon Carr has noticed that David Cameron is a fox in sheep's clothing.

Reading the edited version (courtesy of the Daily Torygraph, now fully repentant after giving voice to Osborne's critics last week), you'd think he aced it. Instead he's gone under.

Poor Vulpes Vulpes. I'm still waiting for the following exchange on TV myself:

Paxman: "So, Kirsty...David Cameron. You're saying he's a werewolf?"

Wark: "Yes, Jeremy - or more accurately, he's a werefox... George Osborne, the former Shadow Chancellor, is now alleging that on a yacht in the Aegean David suddenly began to bark uncontrollably and pull off his shirt and trousers. The next moment, he grew a long bushy red tail and his nose lengthened until it ended in a bright, wet, black nose. The last we saw of him, he was eviscerating a chicken on the stern deck, before he fled when Greek police released the hounds.

"His whereabouts are now unknown but this morning Labour's poll lead climbed to a new record of 20% ahead."

Well, it would make more sense than the current Tory economic policy, at least.