Just remind me who's meant to be Prime Minister

The BBC report on the upcoming "Queen's Speech" which David Cameron has quite rightly characterised as the "most divisive, short-termist, shamelessly self-serving" one "in living memory". The BBC slip in this comment that I found interesting:

"A Downing Street spokesman said Business Secretary Lord Mandelson had briefed Tuesday's cabinet meeting on government on the key themes to be outlined in the Queen's Speech."

So an unelected member of the House of Lords briefed cabinet on the themes for the Queen's Speech; why Peter Mandelson and not Gordon Brown? Was Gordon Brown too busy saving the world from or just incapable of coherent thought and/or speech?


David Cameron recently summed up the planned Queen's Speech thus:

"Apparently it's all going to be about dividing lines between Gordon Brown and the Conservatives... That tells you all you need to know about the character of the government - and, indeed, this prime minister... Dig deeper into any of his plans and you'll find pettiness masquerading as principle.... Two and a half years ago the prime minister stood in Downing Street and told us that he would be 'strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action'. But tomorrow we will hear the most divisive, short-termist, shamelessly self-serving Queen's Speech in living memory."

I actually think that the public have rumbled Gordon Brown; they know that he is a liar and a schemer and that any bills proposed in the Queen's Speech are purely electioneering and division creating.