The BBC and the George Osborne story

I can't remember the last time I have heard the BBC sound so cheery about a news story. At last they have a good old fashioned Tory sleaze story to run with and they are going to squeeze every last drop out of it. Odd how they pay so much attention to this story and that of Caroline Spelman but so little to the original Peter Mandelson story, Peter Hain, Keith Vaz or the Tony Blair/Bernie Ecclestone revelations.

So PMQs tomorrow should be interesting, Gordon Brown will have his devastating sixth "answer" prepared and ready to unleash whatever the question, maybe David Cameron should ask his first five questions and forego the sixth, that would confuse Gordon Brown...

Meanwhile recalling Peter Mandelson to his Cabinet looks to have been a rare Gordon Brown master-stroke; the "Prince of Darkness" has taken just a week to work his magic. From now on, aided and abetted by the BBC, Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson will try and change "the narrative" to their advantage and see if the political landscape can be changed enough to make the conditions favourable enough to call a snap Spring 2009 general election.