The fingers-in-ears school of government

mitch

He is truly delusional.Even the light at the end of the tunnel has been repossessed.

Miranda

He thinks he's Canute!!

Steve

Miranda; I agree, he does think he's Canute, but only because he mis-heard what everyone's calling him.

Paul Hampson

Lol. Didnt you know he is going to win the next election??!! lol. He must genuinely think we are all as stupid, ignorant and ridiculous as he is! His stupidity reaches new levels daily.

maas101

The piece "Bursting Brown's Bubble" by Fraser Nelson gives an accurate picture of where we stand and how we got here. It staggers me that this moron believes that the current position is not his fault. As for the economy turning around in a couple of months, he really has lost the plot.

john miller

Yes Miranda, but its a sort of game, innit. We think he's Canute in a sort of anagramish way, without the "E"

Miranda

:-))))) Very good Steve. I'll remember that one to entertain others with!!

Random Lurker

No, he's not Canute - Canute did accept that he couldn't hold back the tide. Brown is way too delusional and arrogant to admit even the possibility that he might be wrong.

Nicholas

Well he is promising a huge cash injection for British athletes ahead of the Olympic games in London so maybe he knows something we don't?

Er, no . . . he is just up to his usual trick of exploiting the headlines of the day in a pathetically transparent attempt to win votes.

We seem to have a cabinet of Canutes.

George H

Who the hell is Canute?

Carrie

The man is in denial. It must be great living in New Labour's lala land. Where they're on course to win the next election and the current state of the economy is just a blip, which the one man colossus Brown can sort out with an Autumn economic recovery plan. Unfortunately the rest of us inhabit the real world and have to live with the consequences of Brown's ten years at the Treasury and now one year as Prime Minister (unelected).

cuffleyburgers

On newsnight last night they had a tory spokesman and a labour spokesman (ess). The labour woman was of course ghastly, and clearly sh!tting herself because obviously she was repeating the usual tractor production gigures and expecting to be nailed up.

The Tory though was equally unimpressive.

Any coffee houser would have been able to offer a more cohesive and compelling critique of the Brown chancellorship, why we are in the sh!t and what we would have done differently to avoid it or at least to attenuate the degree of the problem - ie reforms, stop wasting money on insane projects, etc.etc

In short it was a golden opportunity to put the boot in and was totally wasted.

Is this a deliberate policy by DC to go easy on Brown so as to leave him in post until the election? Surely they should be wading in horse foot and guns? In any case it's not too soon to start articulating the case against them?

Ian C

Agreed cuffley; I was sitting there answering the repeated questions and wondered who the usless Tory was. Angela Neagle, the Labour 'spoke', has an amazing ability to stay on message in spite of that extremely irritating drone voice of hers.

KATE

cuffleyburgers, couldn't aggre more. The Tory spokesman was totally inept, although Gavin Esler is one of the most biased presenters at the BBC.