Brown turns his back on Ken

Chuck Unsworth

And yet only the other day Brown was reported as saying that Livingstone is 'inspirational'. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/20/livingstone.gordonbrown?gusrc=rss&feed=politics

My goodness - inspirational to do what? Commit suicide?

Fergus Pickering

But what will Brown's jumping actually entail? Not being there when the ship goes down? But he never is there. Who won the poetry competition by the way? Was it THAT couplet?

Talia

A little irrelevant, but did anyone see this in yesterday’s Standard about Boris being in favour of affirmative action: 'I think if you've got equally qualified candidates [for a job], one black and one white, then for me I would want to appoint someone from a community that needs support and encouragement. If I'm lucky enough to be elected, you'll see that in my administration.” Not what one would expect from him.

RW

This is known as abandoning the Titanic while the band's still playing. Unusual for political leaders to get their damage limitation in even before the disaster. I wonder if Brown's also got a secret list of the elections he thinks he'll lose on May 1st. Perhaps if we asked him nicely he'd tell us which ones.

EyeSee

A better analogy is that they are ships that collided and are now drifting apart, whilst sinking. Good riddance.

The Wonderful Jones

Gordon Brown jumping a sinking ship? Never! Just look at Blair's last days, the Iraq War, Mr Darling, Mr Hain. oh, I guess you're correct.

Phoebe H

Macavity is just being true to form: get out of the way and hope no-one notices. We've all noticed the whole country's gone to pot, Gordon, so don't think you'll hide from that one.

Oscar Miller

Trust Gordon - last week Ken was inspirational - this week he is history. The great bottler strikes again.