• "Everyone to be fitted with a zip"

Via Tom Paine's "Last Ditch " blog here's a humourous take on the serious issue of organ harvesting by default:

EVERYONE is to be fitted with a zip as part of Gordon Brown’s plan to nationalise Britain’s kidneys.

The zip will run across the middle of the abdomen to allow for the quick and easy removal of major organs and body parts – all of which will become the property of the Cabinet Office from next April.

Harvested organs will be given to Labour Party donors or used to make pies for the TUC conference.

Read the rest of it if you like...  (and no - it was not me in the photgraph - although I tend to agree that the default position should be donation, I can't imagine anyone wanting mine so I'm on pretty safe ground!)