"He is psychologically and emotionally incapable of leadership of any kind."

You hardly need me to tell you who is being thus described; yes it's the great clumping fist, Gordon Brown. It seems that yet another former Downing Street insider is spilling the beans about life in the bunker with Gordon and it's not a pretty tale. This time it's Lance Price and his book "Where Power Lies. Prime Ministers v The Media" looks like confirming that which we learnt from Peter Watt a few weeks ago and indeed Tom Bowyer some years back.

The Independent are serialising Lance Price's book today and tomorrow, here's a few extracts form today's Independent article to give you a flavour of the being currently in possession of Number 10:

"the Prime Minister "shouting at staff, jabbing an angry finger, throwing down papers, kicking the furniture".

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he Prime Minister's treatment of junior staff is "unforgivable". They claim Mr Brown is obsessed with controlling hour-by-hour media coverage and shows "extraordinary flashes of anger" when a news story runs out of control.

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One staffer describes as an understatement the claim that Mr Brown has "psychological flaws", a phrase attributed to Mr Campbell but denied by him. Insiders accuse Mr Brown of being "pathetic", indulging in "self-pity" when things go wrong. Another who has witnessed his behaviour told Mr Price: "He is psychologically and emotionally incapable of leadership of any kind."

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He is portrayed as obsessed with short-term tactics. "Nobody knows what the big picture is."

What is fascinating is that even the people put up to defend Gordon Brown, damn him with their comments: "One minister said:

"Gordon has had his tantrums in the past when mistakes have been made, but only because he is ... determined to succeed."

As Goldfinger said to James Bond - "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence but the third time is enemy action". So what is four times? I only ask because this weekend the widely respected journalist Andrew Rawnsley's new book "The End of the Party" will (it is claimed) suggest that Gordon Brown physically attacked his staff during a series of outbursts, pulled a secretary out of her chair and hurled abuse at aides while distraught over that alleged snub by Barack Obama during Gordon Brown's trip to the US last year.