Shocker! Public Back Brown!

Nicholas

But read between the lines. The Tory sympathisers are much more split than the Labour tribal lot which gives you the figures and they are about equal in contempt for the nasty little rag before this blew up which makes it irrelevant.

As long as the Tories show this side they are destined to lose out to Labour and the Left. Politics is not chivalry but their very decency is their downfall. Do those kind and gentle Tories sticking up for poor hard done by Brown think he would reciprocate? Only when a leader can bang Tory heads together and get them thinking tribal will Labour face serious defeat.

Labour supporters are behind Brown even though he is a useless liability and they know it. A phalanx of Tory supporters hate Dave (who is nowhere near as dire as Brown) and tell everyone about it. They might as well join the Labour Party.

Patricia Shaw

Yup. You were right.

Watt Tyler

This would be no surprise to me. I read in a certain town in this country, the people built a shrine to an albino squirrel when it was run over by a car. Gordon Browns letters to footballers/x-factor singers/bereaved parents are meant to exploit this modern British mentality. It's not the people's fault as such. We haven't been educated properly for 50 years (myself especially). Instead we have been instilled with a mawkish victim-culture, which is invisible even to clever people paid to commentate on society, and to tell us, the collectively dim-but-sympathetic, just how everything really is.

Rhoda Klapp

I agree with you on this issue of Brown and the Sun, but do you not think it at the very least inconsistent to bring in this poll as vindication of your position and the wisdom of the public, where in other areas when what is perceived to be the Public's opinion is at odds with your own you can dismiss it out of hand? And traduce anybody whose opinion is less enlightened than your own?

Anne Wotana Kaye

The weak will inherit the earth. Unfortunately, the UK doesn't have an Ellison Island, so just look at some of the wretches let in and we have to support for ever, their disabilities seeming to be hereditory. Brown, suddenly a figure for sympathy, he has at last come into his own. Beware!

Number7

Who did they interview? Presumably all the Labour/Government employees who flooded the Sun, Mail, Sky, BBC wbesites yesterday.

"I'm no supporter of Gordon Brown but............."

Anne Wotana Kaye

ELLIS ISLAND - sorry!

Vulture

Bruin is human dreck unworthy to lick the boots of the humblest squaddie. Why doesn't the disgusting man crawl under the nearest stone and stay there? Oh well, only another six months to go.

Geoff Miller

Take out the Labour supporters and the picture changes completely.

More importantly, we know Brown has taken up letter writing as way of boasting that "he cares" - he's sending letters off all over the place and Downing St makes sure the newspapers know about them.

Insincere? Yes.

Moreover the letters are drafted by ministry officials. All Brown has to do is scribble them out.

Badly, as it happens.

As an aside, how did they manage to find anyone who owned up to voting Labour?