Tick In The Box

It is an old cliche to say a week is a long time in politics. But my it can be true. At the beginning of the week Brown was toying with the nation - was he or was he not going to call an election. Somehow we have reached a point that if he doesn't call an election then he will be seen as weak. Of course if, all along, an election is what he wanted then he will be happy. But if it was an manouvre to put presure on the tories then it may well have backfired. The polls are all over the place, it is impossible to know what is going through the electorates minds. And it isn't going to be helped by the postal strike. Brown seems to going for a full house of disasters in his first year. And, sorry but it has to be said, he really doesn't take a good picture does he!