Melissa Kite has a quite brilliant post up on Three Line Whip about the nonsense government ministers have been spouting as they attempt to defend the Prime Minister.
Mr Darling goes on: “He has a very clear sense of direction where he believes we as a country ought to go.”
Again, he misses the point which is surely that this sentence would make much more sense if it was turned the other way around: Britain has a very clear sense of the direction it believes Gordon Brown ought to go.
Do read the whole thing.

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