[Wynonie Harris]

Just been watching some American newspaper columnist called Irwin Seltzer on Sky News, commenting on the present economic situation in Britain. He summed it up perfectly when he said "the prime minister is peddling his persona, rather than any policies to deal with the current crisis and the Tories are just policy-lite." He pointed out that George Osbourne, the Shadow Chancellor, had said that there should be an alternative to nationalising the Bradford & Bingley. "If he has one, I wish he'd share it with us" was Mr Seltzer's somewhat acidic remark.

We're in a very worrying situation at the moment and the fact that both the government and opposition consist of a bunch of mediocre time-servers is going to cost us dear. Sod this, I'm off to the pub and footy to forget about it all for awhile.