Brown and his team, not so prime time

Richard Littlejohn:

As I said a couple of days before Gordon got the job, this column doesn't do honeymoon periods.

But, wary of getting submerged in the glow of post-coital adulation, I thought I'd give it a week before putting the boot in.

The usual bunch of crawlers are doing their best to flatter him, but the simple fact of the matter is that when it comes to being Prime Minister, Gordon just doesn't cut the Colman's.

He's certainly not what Napoleon would have called a lucky general. Since he took over last Wednesday, he's had dead soldiers in Iraq, Muslim maniacs on the rampage in London and Glasgow and a rise in interest rates, as a basis for negotiation.

So why on earth has the elevation of Gordon Brown been hailed as if it were the second coming of JFK?

Quentin Letts has already remarked on the BBC constantly referring to the 'new government'. This isn't a 'new' government - it's a collection of has-beens, placemen and people who weren't good enough to be in the last Cabinet.

You'd be hard-pushed to find such a weird array of incompetents, dullards and social inadequates this side of the flight deck of the Starship Enterprise. The Miliband brothers even look like Vulcans.

Hilariously, we're asked to believe that Gordon has assembled a government of 'all the talents'. If this is as good as it gets, God help us.

Praise has been heaped on the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, largely because she seems to have avoided making a complete fool of herself. Most constructive comment has centred on whether she was showing too much cleavage at the dispatch box.

Do you imagine that Osama Bin Laden is sitting in his bunker quaking in his flip-flops? 'We'd better surrender, guys, they've just called in that bird who used to be a schoolteacher in Redditch.'

This is a Cabinet of Gordon's Gofers. There's not a man nor woman sitting round that table who would dare to stand up to him.

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Then there's the three-time loser Jack Straw, the human colonoscopy, whose only ability is to insert himself so far up the backside of whoever happens to be in charge that it would take an industrial-strength laxative to dislodge him.

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The real reason he's devolving some powers to Parliament is that it means he won't have to take the blame when things go belly-up.

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Now Gordon's finally got the job he's coveted all his life, he's running scared. He looks uncomfortable and has the air of a man about to get his collar felt.

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The column is worth reading just for its colorful insults. The angry left could learn something from this if they would take a look. You do not have to string a bunch of expletives together to make a point that you disapprove of a government's policies. Brown's biggest mistake was instructing his cabinet to not make the obvious link between the terrorist and their religious beliefs that were the root cause of the attacks. By denying this connection he makes them all look like fools.