"Mr Brown was not fit to be Prime Minister, had reduced No 10 to a shambles and was derided even by some of his closest Cabinet allies."

One line from The Mail on Sunday's extracts from former Labour General Secretary Peter Watt's new book. Here are some more extracts:

"* Mr Brown’s Cabinet ally Douglas Alexander said the PM’s inner circle wanted an early Election partly because even they didn’t like him – and they feared the British public would soon form the same view.
* The day Mr Brown called off the 2007 Election, denying he had ever intended to hold one, Labour chiefs had a fleet of limousines circling Parliament Square ready to take Ministers on the campaign trail, and had 1.5million leaflets ready to be posted.
* No10 is ‘completely dysfunctional’ under Mr Brown, who runs the country ‘by making it up as he goes along’.
* Sulking Mr Brown walked out of a Downing Street dinner party with US politicians because they sat down without his permission."

Do read the whole Mail piece and wonder at:
a) the stupidity and cowardice of the Labour politicians who failed to stand up to Gordon Brown and his accomplices
b) the way that a compliant media protected Gordon Brown from scrutiny and criticism, did none of them ever read Tom Bower's book?
c) the way the BBC will ignore or find a way to dismiss this story and concentrate on how Gordon Brown is single-handedly saving the country from shortages of gas and road grit...


PS: If

"The day Mr Brown called off the 2007 Election, denying he had ever intended to hold one, Labour chiefs had a fleet of limousines circling Parliament Square ready to take Ministers on the campaign trail, and had 1.5million leaflets ready to be posted."

then didn't Gordon Brown lie to us when he asured Andrew Marr that he had not been planning an election? Isn't that a big enough story for the BBC?