Telling it like it is - Gordon needs a proper challenge There have got to be quite a few Labour MP's in marginal and indeed not so marginal seats that are shitting themselves at Brown's -15% poll position against Cameron. I know the arguments, it's mid term, he can't be himself until he's PM and then things will improve. Fine I don't expect such polls to be the result come the general election but it's a hell of a mountain to climb. There is also the worrying fact that he is less popular than Tony Blair. This given Iraq has to be something of an achievement but not in a positive sense.

Brown could be an incredablily gifted PM. He knows government, he is brighter than a football team of PhD's, he is a deeply moral politican but not in a back to basics kind of way. Then there is the other side. His lack of interpersonal skills, his scottishness, his lack of voter attractiveness in certain sections of the electorate. There is also the fact that he is something of a known quantity for the electorate and they have made up there mind.

The situation is not helped with no chance challenges from the left and a cabinet that seems to think it is Gordon's hemoroid cream. At the moment I am still going to vote for Gordon because there is no realistic alternative. No proper debate about the future of the country and no cabinet member with any political testicles. There are some who might suggest that Brown is the Hillary Clinton of British politics, and then ask who is our Barack Obama?  ¶ 5:10 pm