Is Silence Golden for Brown

The most important part of today's Poll is that it was taken before David Cameron's recent pronouncements on crime. Of course it would still be nice for the Conservatives to be ahead, but I think Cameron's recent activity will now start to see the end of the Brown honeymoon.

What has been interesting is the almost total silence from Gordon Brown. The only time he seems to stand up and say anything is if it will have popular support or if he wants to pretend more money is going somewhere (i.e. on flood defences, where money will come in around 2011, but he never mentioned that bit).

I wonder if this is his pre-election strategy, if he speaks rarely and only to say populist claptrap then people can only remember him for that. If that is what he is doing, then he is a coward and a poor Prime Minister.