Another Yawner from Gordon

I watched a large part of Gordon's speech at the TUC yesterday. It was as dull as his press conference, but for a different reason - we have heard all the messages before - time and time again.

One of the reasons that people get turned off by politics is that politicians make promises and pronouncements to do with jobs and skills incessantly, yet have rarely delivered. Up until yesterday Gordon was telling everyone how great the New Deal was - which was supposed to deliver a great deal of this. Yesterday was more of an admission of the failure of the New Deal (which has cost us billions) than it was a statement of new ideas and new intent.