With gay abandon I doth my cap to thee!

Today it emerged that the BBC are planning to bring the cost-cutting axe down on a local community radio station in Manchester.

As of April 2006, Gay Talk will be no more than a whisper.

However, to be perfectly honest, I couldn't care less about the story, it's the name of the local Minister of Parliament who's putting his very honorable and no-doubt considerable political weight behind the cause to keep the radio station going:

"I fully support what Nathan [the station DJ] is trying to do [with reference to the petition being signed by those affected by the planned closure]..."

Said none other than councillor Marc Ramsbottom, Liberal Democrat.

Marc Ramsbottom!

As names go, that's always going to get a schoolboy-esque chortle, but c'mon!

You can't make this shit up, can you?