Talked to a BBC contact yesterday.
Which sounds far more important than just meeting a mate in a pub. But anyway. That's how political bloggers write, apparently.
They told me that Blairite factions in the Labour Party are briefing against Gordon Brown's government in direct retaliation for Brownites doing the same to Blair during the cash-for-peerages debacle. And there are plenty more bombs to drop.
Nevertheless, James Gordon Brown is showing himself up as the worst of political leaders. Even Ming could handle himself better on the dispatch box. It's like Labour have picked the fat kid to go in goal and then only just realised what a terrible player he is. Seriously, what happened here? For all the criticism heaped upon him, his ten years as Chancellor were relatively successful. Saved in the good years, spent our way out of recession, everything was coasting along nicely, with one or two bumps.
But now? The last month or so have seen Labour drop over twenty points in the polls as Brown and his clan have shown an enormous incompetence in the face of justified criticism. This is worse that Major at the height of Back to Basics. Is there any way he can swing this around in two years? Does anybody want him to?
My BBC friend did point out that it was nice to see Vince Clegg openly attacking a political leader, as opposed to surreptitiously attacking his own for six months or more. Bless.
Also: did you know that the BBC are running Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe episodes as educational aides for employees? Especially the ones about dodgy phone voting...
