Senior Labour and Conservative MPs have simultaneously been forced to retract their well considered cases against the much maligned 'quango'

In a televised debate the ministers and shadow ministers argued that quangos were outdated because to quote Labour, "it was a Latin word that nobody uses any more", whilst the Conservative claimed "its all well and good learning Greek at Eton, but the modern Brit has enough trouble with English, let alone the language of Fifth Century Athens." Spokesmen for both parties later claimed that their respective MPs were probably joking and that they all knew that the word clearly must be some form of old English.

The head of the quango that supervises quangos claimed today "Just because something's outdated, it does not mean that it's wrong. Whatever next? They'll try reforming Parliament."