The slow motion car-crash

Just in the middle of watching today's Daily Politics. Andrew Neil questioned whether we were watching a slow motion car crash. Completely correct. All of Mr Brown's plans are falling around his ears.

James Purnell's resignation makes it more difficult because as fast as he's re-arranging the deckchairs people are jumping overboard. It all depends on Alistair Darling. He wants to stay where he is and if GB tries to lever him out, Alistair will kill him using a Geoffrey Howe type speech/comment. If he allows him to stay he will show what a weak position he finds himself, all week he has been trying to smooth the path for Ed Balls, but now it looks impossible.

Tonight, it is looking desperate for team GB. I've never witnessed anything like it. I remember gathering in the TV room at college when someone alerted me that (the blessed) Margaret Thatcher had resigned. Such a depressing day. I remember visiting London on a lovely sunny day, when I'd finished my exams at University to find that John Major had resigned the leadership of the Tory party and put himself up for
re-election. I was in St Ives when the coup was enacted to rid us of Tony Blair.

Each time it was a surprise, but it happened incredibly quickly. This time it feels like it's happening slowly, but GB is not getting the message and so another little message is given to him. That's why it's feeling drawn out. The pace is fast, the reaction is slow.

It's an amazing time in politics. I've just been to the IMAX to watch the latest Star Trek, and it was a very exciting film - particularly on a big screen - but my mind kept wondering back to the unfolding events. I don't know what was most exciting, watching the new Kirk's handsome quivering face questioning Spock's possible romance with Uhura during a Romulan attack, over James Purnell's handsome sideburns attacking Gordon Brown whilst a quivering Hazel Blears watches with from the sidelines.

The next two/three days are going to be the most exciting time in politics.

Squiffy.