Gordon - you're fired!

Just as on The Apprentice last night, when the losing team was lambasted by Alan Sugar for coming up with the character of Pants Man to help sell a fictitious breakfast cereal, Gordon Brown comes up with an equally crap idea for cleaning up MPs' expenses.

I can just hear Sir Alan. Looking at David Cameron and Nick Clegg, he says, "Good team leader, was he?" Then later on, when the whole sorry project unravels. "What was you thinking? Swipe cards for MPs!?! More like swipe me! Listen, my friend, you've only got to get it swiped once to get a whole day's expenses. Five minutes worth of work is what one of 'em did! No, it's a total disaster. You went out and you lost me money!"

The losing team last night were still in denial, even though they grudgingly admitted that Pants Man may have been a bad idea. As Margaret Mountford wisely observed of one of them, "I feel he still thinks in his own mind that it was a brilliant idea."

Now that can be applied to Gordon Brown. He is just like an Apprentice player, pushing through crazy ideas and flawed notions, even though those around him can see it's all "a total disaster". He thinks it's all brilliant. Trouble is his Cabinet team have the look on their faces of turkeys hoping for a perpetual summer!