So, you're falling in the polls, you've found the builders in No. 11 and that summer (remember that summer?) seems to be coming to an end.
Where in the world would you want go?
Rolling Welsh hills, although a lifebouy is this summers must have accessory for Wales... or perhaps the Cornish coast? No? Then how about a city break to... Birmingham.
That's right, the organ master and his monkeys decended on Brum today to 'listen and learn'. Cabinet wondering around the streets of the second city looking for a KFC to crash in more like.
Perhaps what this better demonstrates (other than being a shameless publicity stunt from the man who vowed an end to the 'gimicks of politics') is that Gordon and Co. and keen to be different.
And very different they need to be today. Charged with delaying and lacking the gusto to make decisions the Cabinet as a whole (and particular the leader) seem to have lost the agenda - one of those all time great political cliches. But it holds a ring; whilst that golden carrot of the economy seems to have pulled the ladder up on Gordon and doesn't seem to want to come back down anytime soon he seems ineffectively and powerless to do anything.
But by being back in the heart of Labour territory (importantly also one of the keys of New Labour's grand success) it goes some way to showing a greater engagement and perhaps control with those who'll ultimately sign, or not sign, Gordon's P45...
But it is worth remembering the last time cabinet was held outside of Downing Street or Chequers was at Lloyd George's retreat... during a war. But we should never look to the past, right?
