Downing Street is now insisting that Gordon never saw the dozen Biscuitgate questions during the Mumsnet livechat. Being unable to see anything that isn’t in headline size letters, the questions were instead put to him verbally by Mumsnet staff who also typed the answers as well. They allegedly didn’t want to waste the Prime Mentalist’s time on chocolate finger issues.
On Saturday they said on the Downing Street website that Gordon isn’t depressed:
Why the hell shouldn’t he be depressed? Unemployment is nearly 3 million, the public finances are a disaster, the economy is bust and the Labour Party is facing electoral annihilation. He would have to be a madman to be happy. Next they will be claiming he didn’t say he liked to jump out of bed to the sound of the Artic Monkeys in the mornings…