Ashdown on Brown’s chances

Lord Ashdown is interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC News’ Straight Talk this weekend.  And Coffee House has been forwarded a few advance quotes.  I think this, from Ashdown, is minor classic:

“I have made some mistakes in my life but viewed out from a year ago, it does not seem to me that my decision to decline Mr Brown’s kind invitation to join his Government was one of them.”

And he continues: 

“Can [Brown] survive?  Well, Margaret Thatcher was more unpopular than him but does he, you know – she had the personality, the opportunity and the luck.  He’s an unlucky Prime Minister, he hasn’t got a great personality and I can’t see what the opportunity is.”

So yet another figure ringing the political death knell for our Prime Minister…