When in doubt . . .

. . . waste some time on trying to distract the customers with an empty promise.
    That Beer Smarmer is a real comic. Promising to bring in more laws against shoplifting for the police to ignore.
    He has also announced that he’s not going to flog a dead horse if he gets to be PM. Cue a chorus of derisive remarks along the lines of: “That’s his exercise programme abandoned!” and “No one would buy one off him anyway.”