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For most of us, if we get drunk at a Christmas party that probably means we told the boss what we really thought of him and made a pass at someone we shouldn't have. If you get drunk at the Transport Ministry end-of-term knees up you could wake up to find that the previous day you put into place some incredibly insane policy. Such as armed 'Sky Marshalls' on British flights. I mean, what planet does Alistair Darling have to be orbiting if he thinks this 'would reassure passengers'? You have a, relatively speaking, fragile highly pressurised metal tube, and now you want people carrying guns that, if accidentally fired or fired at someone who might be a terrorist but misses, could break that seal and kill everyone on board? Plus, these Marshalls are going to 'pose as passengers', who in a crisis will know which passangers are terrorists and which are Marshalls? And wouldn't the threat of their presence make terrorists work harder to subdue the passengers and, if they find the Marshalls first, give them guns to use?

What's the next great policy move? 'John Prescott announces that a large stock of semtex will be left unguarded beneath the Houses of Parliament. "Safest place for it" announced Mr. Prescott before eating a baby and belching.'