Another day another James Gordon Brown mess.

From Guido some amusement this fine evening at the expense of the snot gobbling trouser wetter our PM James Gordon Brown:

In his speech last Friday to Labour's Scottish conference in Dundee, Gordon made a toe-curling and very laboured joke:

"As you know I'm not long back from Washington DC and I said the people there that I couldn't stay long because I was off to Dundee, They asked, Dundee Michigan, Dundee Illinois or Dundee Oregon? I said the original Dundee. They asked what state was it in? It's in a great state, I replied. It's got a Labour council."

Not now it hasn't. In a council by-election held yesterday and counted today, Labour lost control of the council.

Its like a panto. Gordon says "Oh yes it has!" and the voters say "Oh no it hasn't."