Brown losing friends. Rapidly

You can add another entry to the list of those who don’t like Gordon Brown: the unions.  Over the past few days we’ve been tracking growning union disgruntlement -and the possibility of a Summer of Strikes – over on Trading Floor.  And now that mood’s been encapsulated in a speech delivered by Brendan Barber, the TUC’s general secretary, last night.  He certainly didn’t pull his punches – the Government needs to “reconfigure its DNA”, as it “has not been clear about what it wants to be – and where it now wants to go”.

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to see who Brown’s allies are.  The unions don’t like him; business doesn’t like him; huge swathes of his party don’t like him; and it seems voters aren’t too keen either.  In such a poisonous atmosphere, Brown hanging to his position would be some feat of endurance.  Or stubborness. 

Anyway, there’ll be many hoping that the people of Crewe and Nantwich also register their antipathy.