Downing Street’s spin-master Stephen Carter realises that, much to Guido’s satisfaction, the “PM is a twat” meme is gaining popular traction. Vince Cable vocalised what even Labour MPs think – the PM is a Mr Bean style nerd. It is one thing to be feared as a malevolent weirdo, another thing to be derided. So we now have the appointment of an ex-BBC producer, Nicola Burdett, 35, “to stop the embarrassing photographs and television footage that risk turning Brown into a figure of fun”.
An impossible task. Too late. People are already laughing down the pub at Gordon picking his nose on a mobile phone viral video.
UPDATE : Makes you proud don’t it? 19 heads of state met Britain’s Prime Minister looking like this…