Brown gets advised that people are sick of his miserable face, so he disappears for a month.

Which gives Cameron, the opposition leader, the chance to grandstand in Tblisi as the champion of poor little Georgia. Which meant that David Milliband, supposedly as foreign Secretary, but actually as Pretender-to-the-Throne had to trump him by fetching up in the Ukraine and saying how he was the champion of poor little Ukraine.

Who could ever have suspected that so many prominent british politcians carried flames in their heart for oppressed people of Eastern europe of whom we previously knew little and cared less ?

Then Darling of the Treasury gives a candid interview (apparently he's not very good at these) wherein he enters Stage Left on fire and shouting "We're all doomed". People suspect this may not go down well in the markets where confidence is all, especially when The Gordo has been saying how the fundamentals of the British economy are sound and everything will be tickety-boo for hard-working families being lifted out of poverty (or something).

So The Gordo is in a pickle. He's got a major policy launch (re-launch ?) coming up to try to pretend that he's going to do anything different from the indecisive dithering Blairism that's upset everybody so far. Then he's got a party conference where I can guarantee you that the only topic of conversation will be who replaces him and when. And will be made highly entertaining by the jockeying and politicking of various factions, all of whom will publicly support The Gord in the glare of the cameras and privately be sticking voodoo pins in be-suited dolls by night.

And then...and then...there's the glenrothes by-election which will surely be another loss like glasgow East. No date yet but typically Brown will ensure that all of the disquiet will keep rumbling till Xmas at least.

If only there was anybody credible to replace him. They'll all be disasters cos clueless apparatchiks are all that NuLabs left them with.

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