Ha ha ha! Sorry, hang on a sec. Ha ha! Stop the press! Ha ha! Gordon Brown can recite piss poor jokes written for him by somebody else! Ha ha!

I know him raising a smile is pretty unusual - like a monkey that can bring you a beer - but I’m fairly sure yesterday wasn’t that slow a news day. I know his handlers are desperate to show that the Prime Minister is actually human in the face of all the evidence - I just wonder if showing how much he’s in his element right now and how much he’s enjoying himself while people’s jobs, savings, and houses are being flushed down the toilet is the way to do it. What next, sending him down to an orphanage on Mother’s Day to sing Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep?

Isn’t he unpopular enough? Or is he trying win over those of us who can’t afford houses, pensions and savings? Has his private polling shown him the size of the dirt poor schadenfreude vote, perhaps? I imagine that’s a big constituency right now.

I suppose it at least once again shows the low expectations and regard we have for Gordon Brown. But at least he’s trying, bless him. Look everyone! The Prime Minister can make a hand-picked audience of sycophants clap! He does have a rudimentary sense of humour! The poor, poor sod.