Gordon Brown's "friends" start writing on the wall!

The walls around Downing Street are getting a good lashing of political graffiti on them. David Blunkett has come out to say that he thinks Gordon Brown should "draw a line in the sand" and get back to "old-fashioned politics". Too late for that now. Gordon Brown is fast becoming a spent force. In fact, he was never really the choice of the Labour Party. He just bullied them into accepting him as Buggins to Blair. It was his turn, he claimed. In fact he reckoned he should have been there instead of Blair. They just wanted the grumpy sulking to stop.

Now Brown is being cautioned against bullying. Charles Clarke has entered the fray to say that he has become "ashamed" of being a Labour MP. In some ways it's hard to know what Labour MPs are meant for now. Socialism is a dead concept. New Labour is hardly socialism. The Red Flag is in some cupboard getting dusty and the likes of Jacqui Smith and Tony McNulty see making easy money a better option. I get the impression that McNulty would explode with indignation if he were asked to embrace socialism.

Stephen Byers has popped up to add his ten cents. It's becoming very clear that Brown should be circling the wagons rather than running down to the beach with a stick to draw lines in the sand. David Cameron is waiting to take over. He says that Gordon Brown is "rapidly running out of political authority". That's fairly generous. Most of us feel he's completely out of gas!

The question is - do we have to wait a whole year for a general election with the Prime Minister in the meantime YouTubing us messages and giving the House of Commons' spiders a dose of unfair competition? May be might just run away!