"Gordon Brown to be torched on Bonfire Night"

Really, about time too.... What, I missed a bit out of the headline? The headline headline is actually "Effigy of Gordon Brown to be torched on Bonfire Night". Well that's much less satisfactory, I really must take more care when reading the Ripon Gazette in future.

Why are they burning an effigy of Gordon Brown anyway? Surely he has saved the world's economy is about to save the planet in Copenhagen. I suppose the organisers must be troublemakers. Oh sorry I read that

"The organisers, Ripon Gunpowder Plot, decided to make a giant Gordon Brown figure after consulting with sponsors and members of the public about whose face they would like to see on the Guy at the event, which takes place at Hell Wath on Friday, November 6."

So either it was the sponsors - the three main ones being "F B Taylor Cable Contractors, Keith Anderson metal recyclers and Eura Audit." or the members of the Ripon public feel about Gordon Brown the way that most people outside of the BBC and parts of the Labour cabinet do.