Let us all hope Labour's female supporters don't pick up on this idea

This would be Diana and I have a sneaking suspicion that if she were a New Zealander she would not be an avid fan of Phil Goff or the New Zealand Labour Party.

But she's Russian and she is a fan of you know who.

And she and her friends are going to take their clothes off as a gesture of support for Mr Putin and to express their hope that he will run again for the presidency in 2012.

And they are urging other like minded young women to do the same.

You never know, for the New Zealand Labour party desperate times might call for desperate remedies but this is probably not an idea that they they can use to revive their flagging fortunes.