Oh, Lizzie, please don't find a new hero. Obama is doing OK (and his work on the recession is very parallel to Brown's) but please please keep a fairly even keel. And no, I disagree that "ALL have NO idea of the sufferings their get-rich-quick "ideals" cause". Many in the Labour movement have come from places where they will have had no option but to see the evils of capitalism, and some have eschewed "get-rich-quick "ideals" ".

You may better argue that all politicians have had their snouts in the trough, but first that is something else and second there are the occasional examples who have not. It is the bloody conservatives who have taught us that greed is good and most of them have never met a poor person in their lives.

My despair of the Labour party is that it seems to be going back to its self-fractionating old self. B Liar and his "New Labour" did huge harm, but at least they created an electable monolith, that no matter how bad was better than the Old Etonian party.