This is another series of flatulent comments from "the detached privileged." If Brown wants to regain some credibility with the Labour voters he needs to start by hauling Blair back to face the music; stop whining about "getting on with the job and concentrating on policies" when we all know he wants to lock "terrorists" up without trial or access to support.

"Today, it’s hard to find anyone who has a kind word for any Minister at all. Again, the opposition is so universal that it brushes aside the reasonably competent performance of Milliband at the Foreign Office, Jack Straw at Justice, or Hilary Benn at DEFRA."

and the same was entirely true of the Major administration as well, and for exactly the same reasons - they were a bunch of out-of-touch technocrats, whose spin had run entirely out of steam with the electorate. They were loathed with a passion you probably never could understand (being one of them), the next morning after the general election, you may forget this 'Burger Gummer' but we don't, the population of England and especially London turned out en-masse to cheer on the new govt - not because we particularly trusted Labour much more, but because simply and straightforwardly - it wasn't YOU.

so please, quit with the rosy specs, because those of us who have longer than the goldfish memories of the murdocracy and the westminster 'village' are really not impressed with such revisionism.

in huge measure, new-labour ARE so despised, because new-Labour ignored those hopes we poured into them, and just continued the same old Tory Thatcherite policies. Now we have the (new-Labour) local Govt minister openly saying that all schools should be privatised, the NHS has suffered ever more amputations, and even the BBC being prepared for takeover!

you wonder why people hate new-Labour? Its because they are YOU in all but name.

and then look at the bunch you disingenuously list as being "capable" - technocrats all, bland corporate stooges who would fit as easily into a camoronite Govt as this supposed Labour one, Straw who was so instrumental in creating and leading the attack on British Muslims by the cabinet, and as for Milliband and Benn - words fail.

the present Govt is detested across the country, but people are not in the slightest enthused about Camoron or the Tories in general - they are simply "not Labour". The absolute, and very clear failure by the British Political class to have any policies that benefit the working people, the absolute and very clear corruption that has enabled so many former ministers to benefit from the privatisations they themselves presided over, the absolute and very clear abdication of our foreign policy to a foreign, warmongering and Imperial Power, and the absolute and very clear destruction of basic British civil rights in this entirely fictional 'war on terror', has led to quite possibly the biggest crime of all - a political vacuum that the far-right are now entering, combined with an economic meltdown of the living standards of the normal Briton, all the provisions in place that ended the Weimar Republic.

do you politicians think we Britons are so god-damned stupid we don't know what's REALLY going on? You arrogant, Public-School educated conceited twats! I think you would be shocked just how much the normal citizen DOES grasp, even those whose brains have been warped and numbed by the murdock media.

perhaps in this election, the British People should collectively vote GREEN - annoying and self-righteous they might sometimes be, at least THEY have some good ideas beyond "let sell it all off to the multi-national corporations", or "lets blame immigrants and minorities for all the problems".

because, so help us all, the Tories and Labour are equally bankrupt, equally corrupt, and equally inadvisable to have anywhere NEAR the corridors of power over the British People.

its now time and past for a REAL change.

More important is gummer's kid alright or has she started mooing and thinks she is Marie Antoinette

Not the fabianssssssssss.
A mindless sect who prey on young peoples mind and turn them into "socialists" , well perhaps not socialist but certainly a little lefty.
For some reason I have image of mad john swenney losing the plot at small group of bespectacled kids filming a video for Fabian weekly.
Quintus would be proud of them

the empire doesn't pay like it used to any more. even if as a stooge to the emperor-in-chief. the is approaching when this criminal gang will have to answer for all their crimes.