A slip of the tongue by David Cameron and a potential problem question for Gordon Brown to answer?

John Rentoul's comment article in The Independent has some interesting ideas, one of which is this "The only insight offered by Cameron's speaking from the having-learned-by heart was in the quality of his mistakes. If you mis-read off an autocue, it might tell us about the poor sentence structure of that part of the speech. If you mis-speak off the cuff, it tells us what is going on inside the speaker's head.

And Cameron fluffed in the middle of his section, lifted from recent leading articles in The Independent on Sunday, about how Labour had broken the Military Covenant between the nation and its soldiers. He spoke of the "three battalions that should never have been abolished by the last – by this Government". It is not just bravado, then. He really does think Brown can be beaten in a general election which, as he went on to say later, could be "in one month or one year"."

An interesting idea or was it a calculated "slip" by David Cameron


John Rentoul's other interesting point is this, "The moment the election is over, the question moves on to: "Are you going to fight the next one? Who will be the next leader, Ed Balls or David Miliband?""


Poor, poor Gordon, to be Prime Minister is all he has wanted for so long and now I don't think it tastes as sweet as he had expected. "enough, no more, 'tis not so sweet now as it was before". Now that is why I got into blogging, so I can quote from the old The Passage song XOYO in an article about Gordon Brown and David Cameron.