Batty Brits

The British Bat Conservation Trust is planning a trip to the Palace of Westminster, the home of the British Parliament. The plan on doing a head count of the bats that reside there.

In a first, the Bat Conservation Trust will deploy inside the gothic-style premises in central London next Monday to determine exactly how many bats live beneath its rafters, towers and gargoyles.

"We're hoping the evening will demonstrate that bats and people can and do live in harmony — whether it be in our palaces, our churches, our homes or our barns," said Amy Coyle, the charity's chief executive.

First and foremost, the bats are actually spies from the animal uprising gathering information on the doings of Parliament. The Bats from the Bat Conservation Trust should be clearing the winged rodents, not counting them. But, aside from that we respectfully submit that any count of the little batty creatures would be incomplete without these two:

And George Galloway, of course.