Gordon Brown's convert to the cause!

There's always one, isn't there? Whilst most of Britain is despairing at the financial antics of Gordon Brown (a bit of a dysfunctional Robin Hood!) a Conservative local government leader ups sticks in a paddy and goes over to Labour. Is he a cretin or what?

Councillor Terry Hipsey, leader of the Conservatives on Thurrock Borough Council, told a stunned full council meeting that he was resigning as leader and joining the opposition. He claimed this - "I have resigned as leader of Thurrock Council, and have left the Conservative party to become a Labour councillor. This last week has shown some of the worst examples of David Cameron’s attempt to respond to the recession. I’ve spent the last two-and-a-half years trying to keep this dysfunctional Tory group together. Having some time to reflect, it has become clear this group and the Conservative Party are incapable of making the changes necessary to take Thurrock forward. I’ve been increasingly impressed with the group of Labour councillors locally and the Labour government’s response to the recession nationally." David Cameron has been highlighting all the slow and dilatory responses of this hapless government. Perhaps this new convert to a lost cause just wants to get his hands on some of the make believe money?

So one dysfunctional leader goes to genuflect to another dysfunctional leader! Where has Councillor Hipsey been in the last 18 months? If he's increasingly impressed with taking this country to the brink of ruin he needs quick remedial treatment in a pyschiatric establishment. The man has taken leave of his senses.

Impressed, indeed!!!