nulaba wants everything to be "nice"for everyone, which is impossibleso long as they try to be nutori lite

peter c, devizes, wessex

Doesn t the Bible say something along the lines of ' Of the making of reviews and policy initatives there is no end'?

dhrowlands, cardiff,

Surely it's a lack of any good ideas? Typical of Brown are:PFI; tripartite control of the banking sectors; polyclinics etc ad nauseum. Even the Good ideas are sabotaged: Freedom of Information ; The Filkin factor. Who will rid us of this turbulent prat?

bob holmes, axbridge , England

Ironic that the only idea you could find - showing Al Gore's film in every school - has already been ruled unlawful in the courts

SW, Cheadle, UK

A lack of big ideas is killing Gordon Brown? Given the damage he's done with little ones, any progression to big ideas would be a catastrophe.

Jon Anderson, Farnham, UK

People laughed at Brown way back for talking about neoclassical endogenous growth theory. But seriously, this theory is why Britain is so badly placed to deal with the economic situation. Labour thought any spending would generate growth, but untargeted waste has squandered money from North Sea Oil

Frederic Stansfield, Canterbury, Kent

They have to sack at least half of the public sector employees to keep the UK afloat.

They've already shot their own fox so what else can they do to distract the people from their incompetence?

Labour are finished, send the down mines!

David, Knutsford, UK

Surely a more appropriate DVD would be "An Inconvenient Truth - How Socialism brought Britain to its knees (again)"?

christian, london, united kingdom

Labour will win Glasgow East, but with a reduced majority. As for policies, why don't they bid for a pot of money and invite the private sector to inject ideas?

Frank Keegan, Alderley Edge,

Brown is a Socialist. He has sickened the English working class with welfarism funded by stealth taxes. Monstrous state spending has consumed revenue & borrowings. He has been sidelined in Scotland & Wales by nationalism, a monster from Labour's flawed devolution. Socialism failed again, go now !!

john barkham, Burton-upon-Trent, UK

I understand the article's point, but what the UK needs is no more policies or initiatives on anything.
McBroon and his team create a zillion "policies" a year, but deliver nothing that works even remotely adequately, but always involves extracting money from people who usually can't afford it.

Padraig, Perth, Australia

Now I am seriously worried. We have a cabinet minister who didn't know what GB was like before he became PM and believes the PM should come up with all the ideas. If the rest of the cabinet is like this we need help. 2 more years. Help.

Alex C, London,

Ian Girvan - could you tell me what "socialist" ideology is evident in the Labour government? If Labour lose the next election, it will certainly not be because of being too left wing but, rather, too wedded to the failed policies of Thatcherism and neocon credo.

Social democracy? If only!

Rob, London, UK

Rachel,

Erwin not Edwin Schrodinger, of that, there is no uncertainty.

Brown is finished, the bye-election will be a significantly reduced majority win for Labour, the knives will come out within the Old Labour brotherhood in the Westminster Big Top.

Of that I am also not uncertain.

Geoff Berry, Bolton, UK

You could have written this stuff over a year ago! Nothing has changed. Emperor Brown was presented for his accession with a new tie, expensive dentistry and haircut but was at once seen to be utterly devoid of any ideas. His 'British jobs for British workers' speech was as good as it gets.

m collins, Leeds,

Any politician is as good as those on whose shoulders he stands. A man with a big title was saying on this morning's Today that the majority of young people are fine and we should all rally behind the PM's youth strategy - a clear indication of the paucity of ideas in Whitehall today.

MDA, Crouch End, UK

Gores film has already been discredited with at least 12 errors and exaggerations . To provide this propaganda to our schools would be outrageous.

C.Wood, Camberley, UK

D Murphy - that's very good. Is it yours?

John Williams, London,

Remember how Brown used to endlessly boast how he was the best Chancellor for about 200 years ? He is firmly on course to become the shortest serving prime minister for about the same period..

Rick, London, England

Rachel Sylvester rather misses the point. Brown is merely the miserable personification of a party which, hidebound by socialist ideology, is quite unable to produce any new ideas. Moves to free state education from the suffocating grip of government control, for instance, are therefore unthinkable.

IAN GIRVAN, DUNKERTON, SOMERSET, ENGLAND

He should change his name to Spiro Agnew- Who? Exactly!!

Nigel T, Altrincham, UK

Brown as PM? - Whats the big idea!

I've had to say it ad nauseum, but here goes again, Brown has always been the darling of some on the left, but they are all idiots otherwise they wouldn't be on the left, the simple truth is the man is not up to the job and never was.

edward green, Upminster,

sorry rachel,i think the public is well ahead of you commentators.they have already made up their minds about brown.in short...they will not vote for him,full stop!labour must replace him before christmas with milliband as PM and purnell as chancellor to stop a big tory landslide atleast!

john small, canterbury, uk

No, Mr Brown is bad enough at small ideas without doing big ones. How long before they start doing people for tax evasion every time they drive slowly through a speed trap ?

D Murphy, Skipton,

Gordon Brown apparently assured Labour MPs invited to meet him in small groups that the pronblem was not him personally but the economy. And that he could fix the economy.

I thought the problems with the economy were down to international forces over which GB had no control !

Anthony, London,

The resurgence of the left is a real issue over the remaining term of the Labour Government due to the realization that the chance of an overall majority again has almost certainly gone. The luck of the Blair years in the 'Golden Decade' has evaporated and there will be no other alternative.

john, milton keynes,

Considering the UK is a major force in the world and a powerful country, I think Gordon Brown is no statesman, more a local councillor.

Mike, Stratford upon Avon, UK

Sometimes people identify their own problems very well. When there are people in Down ing Street willing to say "The voters and the media are like stroppy teenagers..." then their arrogance and stupidity in saying so in public explains exactly what's wrong with Labour after ten years in office.

jon livesey, Sunnyvale, CA/USA

"The only new policy that I could spot in more than a hundred pages was the suggestion that all schools should be sent a copy of Al Gore's film on the environment, An Inconvenient Truth." That's not a new policy. So no new policies. That's new.

GBH, Frome, Somerset

PM Brown could turn his popularity around. He should review the Westminister system. He has nothing to lose. Base a new government system on environmental needs and resource sustainability, and introduce a democratic voting system for all legislation. Modernization of government is the future.

Jim Wills, Brisbane, Australia