Fin du Régime

I don’t think we need to wait for tomorrow’s TV broadcast of the Prime Minster’s interview by Piers Morgan to conclude that Gordon Brown is finished.
The sheer hypocrisy of criticising David Cameron for talking about his children 18 months ago, and then weeping about his own family is enough on its own.
Wearing his heart on his sleeve so uncharacteristically just smacks of desperation, not something people admire in a politician.
That’s not to say the British election is over, because Labour has built up such a huge client state in the last twelve years: six million on welfare, an extra million public sector employees (all on indexed-linked pensions) and a wave of foreign workers who’ve never had it so good.
Still, at least a hung parliament will expose the minority parties for the charlatans that they are, and remind us why the largest one was thrown out of office nearly a century ago.
Which reminds me of my favourite doorstep question to a Labour voter:

Name me a Labour Prime Minister who didn’t end in economic ruin?

To which the answer came:

Lloyd George.

Update Sunday: Piers Morgan's interview was very entertaining -- Gordon's still dead meat though.