http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010 ... -ministers

Labour have no luck, do they?

I thought this was a reference to the noise in the background on the news last night after the debates. Sirens, megaphones and who knows what else.

Yet again I totally disagree with him.

The Sith Lord has spoken! The fact that the bin men were jeering at the ministers is not a good sign.

Thankfully I escaped before he could



Oh I don't know an honest expression of their feelings I would have thought

Yes but from the perspective of Labour it is not a good sign. People could be jeering for a number of reasons. Though considering the proximity of 10 cabinet ministers would say that the correlation that they were jeering at the ministers was very high.

The Labour campaign has been a comedy of errors this time. It’s not been the slick Tony Blair kind of event. Neither has it been an attempt to return to a time when campaigning involved less presentation and more oratory. I kind of think that Brown would have been better off speaking from a temporary stage in a field. He’s been compared to Michael Foot, and apart from the bumbling mishaps, I kind of agree that he’s more that kind of politician. He’s probably had more than one clash with the PR folk about what he should be doing.

Sadly, though, even Foot didn’t have the things happen to him that happened to Brown (apart from the false teeth incident). Brown’s problems run deeper than his own short comings - there seems to be more things happening than he himself can control.

Have you noticed the lack of the Milliband brothers in all of this? They may be off campaigning themselves, but when the Bigot thing happened, they were suspiciously quiet. I reckon one of them is sharpening a knife.

I'd say a safe bet.

I would think rather a lot are making plans for the future for a life after Gordon.

Those are two of the slimiest little sh1ts modern politics has produced - they don't even seem to try and hide the naked ambition

No arguments from me on that one!

Some people have the gift of the gab.
Blair had it, Brown doesn't. Simple.

Aye. Brown is not a fluent orator, certainly not in the Foot mould. Long gone, I'm afraid, are the days when a politician could stand in front of a crowd and hold them spellbound.