Up you and yours

G Brown on a phone-in, Call You And Yours, giving the same sort of flummery that is his hallmark, ie machine-gunning questioners with pat answers that cast the blame elsewhere.

A singularly ill-advised appearance for him to make as it simply reinforces the view that he does not listen and is fixated with macro economics rather than what to do about the disappearence of little old ladies' bank deposit interest. There is no sense here at all that he is making some sort of appeal, reaching out, to the populace by going over the heads of the media. He might as well be mute.

Please will someone in the Labour Party do something, since doing nothing and letting him ramble on in this fashion until June next year will put you out of office for at least two - and maybe three - terms?

On the other hand, spose it could be interpreted as an "I feel your pain" moment. Must be something to do with all those years in the manse, slamming the Holy Book shut on his genitals for sins real or imagined.