The unsinkable Golly Brown

The Titanic powers on towards the iceberg. Was it only on Monday that a supposedly contrite Gordon Brown promised more open and transparent government and a listening Prime Minister?

Wednesday:

Brown attacks the Conservatives for announcing Treasury forecasts and then denying that Labour would cut even though cuts are actually written into their own forecasts and a day after the Health service came under notice of cuts in 2011.

Shaheed Malik is exonerated in a supposedly independent report commissioned by the Prime Minister, who then refuses to let the report into the public domain.

Typically Brownian, the PM introduces a document about Parliamentary reform that is vague on particulars and particular about vagueness. It will be talked about as an example of his pioneering efforts at Parliamentary reform but will be largely forgotten and buried.