Shock was the prevailing air around Westminster today as Gordon Brown and David Cameron further participated in talks to become the same person.
Labour and the Conservatives, much criticised for their respective moves toward the centre ground of politics, believe this is the perfect solution to finally convince voters that there really will be no choice at all in the upcoming general election.
The new leader, to be called Gorvid Camerbrown, would be the most central politician ever seen in this country but his genesis is already a highly controversial affair due to his simultaneous endorsement and criticism by the Liberal Democrats for his disapproval and support of the Iraq war.
This process is not entirely without precedent in British politics, Nick Griffin, of course, is the result of a partially successful merger between a racist man and an ignorant one in 1994.