Brown and Marr

The Prime Minister looked as if he hadn't slept for a week. And all this 'feeling your pain' nonsense just doesn't ring true. How is he going to turn the situation around? The Times comments:

It's all part of his “fightback” and, we must assume, some sort of masterplan.
Actually, we could have done with more of a plan. He refused to tell us any details of how he’s saving our economy. Indeed, his only actual plan seemed to be that he wants to get out more and meet us. He wants to listen. He wants to empathise. He also wants to apologise. The man for whom sorry has been the hardest word now, suddenly, can’t stop talking about his mistakes, about the 10p tax cut, the general election that wasn’t, blah blah blah.
It’s all a bit much: if he knocks on your door, you might want to hide.

Actually, I would settle for some basic competence. No more holding firm when it is obvious that you will back down at the last minute; no more back of a fag-packet solutions which fall to pieces upon inspection; no more pandering to the Daily Mail; and, above all, no more talk of long-term decisions which are neither long-term nor decisions.