Oh goodness me, look out it's a human.

I am not a natural for modern politics.

I think I prefer having an argument based in ideas than a preening match where the outcome is decided by who has the brightest feathers.

Oddly, I had a lot of time for Thatcher in the late 70's. She was honest, if she got into power, she said, she would shaft the poor and reward the rich. People voted for it thinking they were voting "for change" and they got all that they deserved.

I'm not a Tory, I am an old fashioned socialist, in the non political party sense, I have been a Welsh Nationalist all my life.

I have seen Gordon Brown in action a couple of times now.

Cameron to me is that combination of presentation over substance that really galled me about the Blair years. That sort of second hand car sales person blarney that leaves you feeling insulted.

Clegg is a really interesting person. Kennedy is the best they have had recently. Maybe that's why he was hounded out of politics.

Today Gordon had a real bad hair moment with the lady who wanted someone to rail at and he was the target.

He didn't try and spin his way out, but just like you and me he didn't handle the situation too well either.

He tried to handle it with straight talking not spin and for what ever reason, probably timescales he didn't get his points over.

Yes Gordon was right - he said "that was a disaster" - that was you or me talking. Not someone saying "I should have convinced her to buy the Sierra with the dodgy MOT instead"

He then said "she was a bigot" quite right, she was not there for a discussion, her spleen was full, he could have said he would double her pension next week and she would not have liked the colour of the pension book.

What he did not do was try and spin his way out of it, that was a bit clever, Blair his way through that and she might have hit him with some convenient inanimate object, like a Sun journalist.....

No he was a bit like you and me.

And on May 6th he will be penalized for being genuine.

And we might well pay the price for choosing the posh boy too....

R