She finally caught the mood of the occasion.

You're a suck, a suck and a lickspittle, that's what you are, said the pale man, his voice trembling with passion.

Rod was my home slice. He and I rolled up scumbags together for two years in SWAT. I loved that guy.

For most British voters – the people whom Labour claimed to represent – Labour was, quite simply, ‘beyond the pale’.