Great news – late this afternoon Gordon Brown who, as Prime Minister never won an election, declared that he would resign in four months time once the Labour Party has chosen a new leader. The Liberal Democrats, led by Nick Clegg, who were coming to the end of what appeared to be a promising round of negotiations with David Cameron and the Tories, have suddenly anounced they will enter formal negotiations with Brown to discuss a possible Labour/Liberal Democrat Coalition – even though there is no evidence that the Tory/Lib talks had broken down or even stalled.

Even if one could ignore, just for a moment, the seedy, shady nature of this move to set up a Coalition of Losers the mathematics must be flawed. Together Labour and Lib Dems can put together 315 MPs – not enough to ensure a Parliamentary majority of 326. They must bring in the nationalists from Scotland (SNP), Wales (Plaid Cymru) and the Unionists from Northern Ireland in order to cobble together a Rainbow Coalition. The price for the support of these regional parties would be sackloads of taxpayers gold heading for Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast to be spent on a whole range of Celtic fantasies.

Then finally, in October, a new Labour Party leader would grease his or her way into Downing Street…..an unelected Labour Prime Minister replacing another unelected Labour Prime Minister….

Thus Gordon Brown leaves Number 10 in the same manner by which he entered – through plotting and scheming and fixing the roulette wheel. No wonder the pound collapsed immediately after Brown’s statement – would anybody in their right mind invest their money in a Government of Weasels?