Gordon Brown begins to see the light

Gordon Brown has been addressing the Royal College of Nursing conference in Harrogate. He has said sorry in a certain way for the MPs expenses fiasco. I also think he has grasped the public mood, a mood that thinks politicians are corrupted by greed and personal gain. This perception is not wholly accurate, as there are plenty of MPs who have NOT been on the fiddle. Why Alan Johnson is now dubbed the "Sainted Alan Johnson" I do not know. It is a perverse set of morals where someone who has been abusing the trust of the nation whines and opines that it was "all within the rules" and someone who has not abused that trust is personally denigrated.

I thought it a bit rich of Peter Mandelson to give a definition of smearing! "A lot of innuendo....you take a germ of truth, you distort it, in order to turn it into something it isn't..." Wow! Talk of pot calling the kettle black! Mandelson has been the biggest twister of the truth since New Labour was invented. Not just one germ distorted but whole whole swine flu load of the pesky critters! Mandelson's unbelievable, he really is.

Back to Brown. He's been saying sorry of a sort. "We must show that, where mistakes have been made and errors have been discovered, where wrongs have to be righted, that it is done so immediately." Interesting that he equated nursing with political life. The Midwifery Council has just struck off a nurse for revealing horrendous goings on in a hospital. 40,000 people have supported her appeal so far. Is this a wrong that the PM thinks should be righted?

We have a long way to go to get these people into some kind of denial treatment. But the green shoots of moral recovery are starting to be seen.