What sort of sweet would someone be?

Boris has to be a marshmallow

Oh YES!! Soft and squashy, so appealing but quickly melts, no real substance and you regret eating it afterwards!!!

John McDonald is treacle toffee , oozes treacle

Michael Gove one of those sharp,horrible Haribo that give you an annoying , shock taste.

I'm the archetypal 'nippy sweetie'!

Corbyn is a stick of rock with 'I must have my own way!' All the way through it.
Theresa May is a chocolate lime, there may well be a soft centre but you have to get
Through a lot of sharpness first.

Boris is a piece of Thorntons dairy toffee, sweet and pleasant to chew, but you will be
Hard put to get rid of it and may be missing a few gold fillings afterwards(eat with due care)

I think there's a need for more gobstoppers in Westminster. Time to shut up and get on!

Andy Burnham is peanut brittle, looks quite tasty but breaks up too easily under a toothy onslaught.

Tom Watson is a pineapple cube ( he just is.)

Cameron is a Werther, very smooth and shiny and lasts a long time, but if mouth gets hot, tends to melt and vanish.

Oh Thank you, thank you. Brilliant ideas. I am giggling away. Do you think we could introduce it as a standard for assessing MPs??

....and just choose the sweets we like?

George Osborne is a mint imperial, glossy and pale from a high class sweet factory,
Rather bland.

Dianne Abbot is an after eight choc, attractive packaging, crisply delivered bitter choc bite,then into over sweetness,rather cloying, you wouldn't want more than one of these with your coffee.

Dennis Skinner is an old acid drop, that you left in your raincoat pocket several years ago, found one day, and dusting it off, popped it into your mouth, a bit old,a bit hairy, but still capable of giving you an acid-y shock!

Corbyn a jelly baby, pleases the young

Nigel Farage,A Fishermans Friend......both for irony and that it is hard to swallow.

Various Green Party MP's ( is there more than one?) and same for UKIP ( one?) fit under the heading of assorted nuts.Short shelf life, so eat quickly.

Michael Gove, a tic-tac, tiny and annoying.Be careful, they can stick in your throat.

Sadly (or not) some of the above sweets are now discontinued lines,and others may well be, very shortly.Some Sweets perform very well over a long period of time and others enjoy the limelight only for a few years.However, sweets may be brought back by popular demand, so it's never too late to start that petition!

Is Tony Blair the mint humbug? I suspect there might be a few who would qualify as such!