Open lies

It has come to something when our Prime Minister can openly lie before gathered political journalists on television and get away with it. Of course politicians lie or avoid telling inconvenient truths but most of them will find a way of shading their answer so that it's not actually a direct lie.

"Did you plan to sack your Chancellor this week?"

Brown: "No I did not."

A Blair type answer: "Prime Ministers have to consider all options in a reshuffle; however, we all know that Alastair has been doing an excellent job and that it is right that he continues . . . "

We had the same kind of thing with the election that never was and there have been other instances. Either Brown is stupid, delusional, totally lacking in awareness of his impact on other people or all three.