The "Downfall" of Gordon Brown

Read this article in The Standard, here's an extract:

"A senior Cabinet member told the Standard that the special pre-conference session was "excruciating" and that several ministers were clearly unhappy with the Prime Minister's presentation.

One minister even demanded to know why the No 10 meeting was not discussing Labour's unpopularity rather than focusing on the Tories.

"This can't go on for much longer," the source told the Standard. "It's not just the country that's not listening to Gordon any longer, his ministers aren't listening to him. The meeting was just excruciating - an embarrassment."

In a strongly worded attack on the PM's waning authority, the source added: "Something is going to give. Either it will end up as a Cabinet entirely made up of Brownites, or a Cabinet without Brown. There were people staring at their hands, some scribbling on their papers, someone else on a Black-Berry. The mood was awful."

As Mr Brown told his Cabinet that issues about the direction of the party should not be raised until after the economic turmoil dies down, the minister said: "Gordon is now measuring his survival in two-week horizons. He just wants to get through conference. It's humiliating for everyone. All he does is re-state the problem, he doesn't address it.""

Now go and watch Downfall, should we look out for petrol cans being brought into Number 10?