…cheap stunts like shamefully pouring tea for Maggie Thatcher [don’t] look so clever when you’re in trouble and desperate for friends. Fair-weather right-wingers Brown wooed are long gone, firm backers he recklessly took for granted no longer prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. Brown will pay dearly for repeating Tony Blair’s mistake, neglecting Labour’s core while pegging his big tent on the shifting sands of floating voters. A premier who unwisely blew then blew some more into an election bubble that burst his authority, looks dangerously clueless now the going’s got tough… Can you think of three good things to say at the moment about Brown’s Government? No, me neither.