IF I WERE GORDON...

Fiest I'd have to seriously countenance retiring to Skye to make matchstick models.

However, if I decided against that what I wouldn't do is rush into a series of 'initiatives', or re-announcements of previous commitments. Instead, I'd bring together my second rate team and get everyone looking at a vision for the next two years. Once the various dunderheads in my Cabinet had had a good think I'd tell them what I wanted and expect them to play ball.

I'd start to sell that idea in a more grandiose way than the managerial Brown seems capable of. This is the party that sold us Tony Blair, after all, so they must have some spinners left.

I'd also start asking many more questions of the Tories than the dispirited Labour Party has managed so far. Dave has made his people electable but they still lack any serious ideas. I mean, the ludicrous plans for buses aside, what is Mayor Boris actually going to do now?

Luckily, I know that Gordon reads this blog so this is bound to make an impression.

By the way, I don't actually like Labour but, faced with a rejuvenated Tory Party, I'm inclined to consider supping with the devil...