"...In a situation like this, you're going to need two heroes..."
I'm slightly deranged, yes - but I see similarities between the final scenes of stylish 1997 film L.A. Confidential and what is happening in UK politics right now.
A high-ranking policeman gets it in the back (his own fault of course); greed, corruption and (political) slaughter are rife - and now a spectacle, a circus, a media event must occur to distract the populace from the grisly and crooked events that led up to it.
Enter stage nu-left Peter Mandelson. Behind him, David Blunkett.
Our very own Bud White and Edmund Exley. Except we didn't need two anti-heroes...