Of headless chooks and ruling the post-election roost
Order Paper: The political classes are, in the main, behaving in a reminiscent of a bunch of fowl after an unfortunate appointment with Madame La Guillotine.
The part of an election campaign we should probably call – for reasons of accuracy if not taste – the "headless chook phase" usually doesn't arrive until the final 10 days or so.
Yet, here we already are, nearly four weeks out from polling day.