Summer blues
Harold Macmillan used to say that when the catalpa trees in New Palace Yard are in blossom the inhabitants of the House of Commons are ready for the summer recess…… because by this time of the year they are quite mad!
Members of Parliament are thinking of their summer holiday plans. I cannot think of a less appropriate place than for Gordon Brown to go to Southwold in Suffolk which is like 1950s England frozen in time. It is prosperous, charming and safe and he is least unlikely to get knifed, unlike in many other parts of our country, like so many of our fellow citizens who are currently being attacked.
Somehow I suspect Gordon will come back less refreshed in Southwold than before he started his holiday.
Just watch this space….