Bad News Brown

Not a good day for him and it's going to get worse. Losing part of Glasgow that has been rock solid Labour since the day the party was born is one thing on many MP's minds, but they have one huge problem. If they're going to replace him, it really must be done this Autumn and the potential future leaders are hardly inspiring.

Just how bad things are will become clear later when Obama lands in the UK after such a successful speech in Berlin. Next to him Gordon looks very dowdy indeed, very uninspiring.

Well, it's true that Gordon

Well, it's true that Gordon is rather uninspiring. But at least every morning's news bulletins don't start off with the announcement of yet another initiative by Tony Blair, or with another pronunciamento from the Great Bliar or with an order-of-the-brown-nose puff from one of Tony's hangers-on (amusingly referred to as "ministers").

I for one am rather enjoying the sound of (relative) silence.....