Jerry Springer's insight

Jerry Springer has had the advantage of growing up in the US where they actually allow their citizens to elect their representatives and leaders, but I didn't get the sense that this concept was fully understood by the panelists on This Week last night. Diane Abbot - "We don't do it that way here."

Well the answer is that we should be doing it that way. Brown, if he had been elected, by anybody, might be on firmer ground if he had some sort of mandate. If you trust the voters they might trust you back.

Diane Abbot was particularly exercised last night by this putsch from the "right". Dear me! The old left wing, central control, not trusting the workers to manage their own lives way of doing things is now intellectually bankrupt. It's gone. It's over!