Lib Dems MPs discovered to be still alive.

This is what the current edition of 'Private Eye' has to say about the plight of the Lib Dems:

BURIED 57 FOUND ALIVE

There were scenes of jubiliation last night in London after contact was finally made with 57 Liberal Democrat MPs buried under a Conservative government over 100 days ago.

"As we'd heard nothing from them in weeks we'd naturally assumed they'd all perished," said a jubilant Liberal Democrat councillor.

Despite the initial euphoria, rescue workers were more downbeat about the long term prospects for the trapped Liberal Democrat MPs, saying few are expected to emerge from underneath Kenneth Clarke alive. Said one, "I'm doing every thing I can to save them from being shafted."