Don't mention the war, cried Basil Fawlty. Don't mention the strike, one can almost imagine Ed Miliband exhorting his shadow cabinet. "I mentioned it once (to condemn it) but I think I got away with it." You didn't, by the way.
I have already blogged about Ed Miliband's disappointing reaction to today's public sector stoppage and this morning the Labour leader was again expressing his disapproval on Twitter.
On the same medium, his deputy, Harriet Harman, was silent. But two days ago, she tweeted that she was en route to a conference in Athens where the Greeks were having a "tough time". Public sector workers there are concerned about their pensions, and so too is she.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls seems also to have lost his tweeting stick and there is no trace of shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper on Twitter.
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander says he is feeling "very middle-aged" today, which is the closest anyone among the senior Labour ranks has got to mentioning the dreaded pension word.
Perhaps employment and pensions spokesperson Liam Byrne has some views. He does! He was looking forward to some chocolates, although this was his last post, five days ago. The pressures of high office, eh?
And local government spokesperson Caroline Flint seems also to have fallen out of the Twittersphere.
But don't believe all Labour is against the strikers: the trusty MP for Hayes and Harlington in west London, John McDonnell, tweeted that he was on his way to a picket line.
A modern-day last of the few.
