THERE was a real gripping, Frost/Nixon moment today on Andrew Marr. Labour’s former head of strategy and media communications Alastair Campbell again revealed how powerful TV can be, in outlining emotions, (fake or sincere), of politiicians and former employees of politicians. You might not think that Marr is the greatest interviewer in the world, or that he has the ability to extract hidden gems from his interviewees, but Campbell’s pause-reflection moment really was the stuff of Oscar winning political films. Video below….

Campbell said he was upset by all the ganging up on Tony Blair’s decision to invade Iraq.

Are we entering a new phase of politics? The politics of crocodile tears, from Labour that is? Gordon’s ‘Piers Morgan’ moment to TP only stinks of trying to get the sympathy vote. Do politicians think we were born yesterday?

PMQs was a very noisy affair today. It was, as it always invariably is, like watching a group of toddlers running around like headless chickens not knowing what to play with next. Ironic that considering there are proposals flying around that there maybe finally a Creche to be built in the House of Twits.

Gordon Brown was in a fiery mood. And David Cameron finally stepped up and showed us some of his former fiery self. They started off clashing over defence. Gordon saying he basically had not starved the Army of rations involving defence equipment. He then accused the Tories halfway through of changing their policies round the clock. Luckily, Dave grew some backbone. The last two or three weeks have seen Gordon grow in confidence, but today, Gordon was just like a broken record. His lines were pretty feeble.

Where’s Alastair Campbell? Has he moved out of the bunker?

So the second half of Cameron’s questions were on Electoral Reform. To put it simply, Dave accused Gordon of putting the interests of the Labour Party, ahead of the country. Gordon didn’t like that. The Incredible Sulk just got nastier, and said that the Tories were a shambles, and that the public wanted to see real reform. Yes, they do. But it all feels a bit dodgy Gordon. The public certainly don’t want Electoral Reform if it means propping up one fag end government, or another. Anyhow, Gordon also said Cameron wanted to keep Hereditary peers in the House of Lords. We are for the many, not the few. Where has TP heard that one before? And since we’re in questioning mode, Labour have been on about constitution reform since 97. Why now? There is a method in Gordon’s madness….

All in all, Gordon was outfisted by Dave in this exchange. As they say in the trade, all good runs of forms must come to an end sometime. Dave’s back in the race – despite the slight poll slump.

Read the Creche story, HERE.

ONE person Gordon Brown should be taking pointers from when it comes to leadership, and changing tactics when you know the current tactics are failing, is coveted Man U boss Sir Alex Ferguson.

Ferguson knows exactly when to change tactics, and employ fresh new tactics yesterday when Man U were on the backfoot, should be an indicator to Gordon that when things are not going right, you need to go back to the drawing board. It was the shifting of Ferguson’s midfield that effectively won Man U the game, leaving Wenger’s Arsenal as onlookers most of the time in awe of Man U’s dazzling football.

Here we have it, one Scot who understands the role of leadership, and another who just can’t grasp the idea of leadership atall. Instead, Gordon just gets in a strop when things aren’t going right. Stubborness is not a good trait for being a leader.