Gordon Brown thinks the public will forgive and forget.

During his monthly press conference this morning Gordon Brown said: "Many of the things that have been written about for the last few weeks would be forgotten quickly." He may be right, but the problem he and his cabinet face is the fact that the label "incompetent" sticks, and that will not be forgotten - not this time. Incompetence is not just for Christmas, it's for life. We all know from work that when someone is officially found to be incompetent they are sacked - no ifs - no buts. Gordon and his party will be sacked at the next General Election, if they think otherwise, then they are deluding themselves.

Brown then came out with a classic: "I think people know that when a problem arises we will deal with it." That is a pure, out and out lie. He knows it's a lie, but he hopes that just by saying it some of the "not so bright" members of our society may just believe him. What has he dealt with? The bank details of 25 million families are still missing, the second outbreak of foot and mouth this year was the fault of the government, every week more and more of our money is being thrown at Northern Rock, not a week goes by without some part of the public sector threatening to strike and immigration is so out of control that we have illegal immigrants working on the front desk of the bloody Home Office.

Just who does Gordon think he is kidding?

If you missed the conference you can watch the highlights by clicking HERE.

DEFRA are to blame for foot and mouth outbreak say IAH.

Unbelievably, scientists at the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) Pirbright have had to leak their own report into this summer's foot and mouth outbreak. They leaked the report because Defra failed to do so. And the reason Defra did not publish the report? Well it turns out that the scientists at the IAH blame the government for failing to stop the outbreak from spreading. The scientist say that Defra were wrong to give the all clear, and this led to the second outbreak a month later.

It's not like this government to hide their mistakes from us is it? Well not unless they can no longer get away with it.

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Foot and Mouth - Government not to blame. But they will pay compensation?

I found a good one in the Hansard written answers from this Tuesday:

Q. Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make a statement on compensation to farmers who have been affected by export bans arising from the most recent foot and mouth outbreak.

A. Jonathan Shaw: It is a long established principle that the Government do not meet the costs of consequential losses which must be borne by the industry. However, we are acutely aware of the difficulties facing the industry at this time and my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State (Hilary Benn), announced on 8 October a compensation package for England worth £12.5 million.

When I put this answer through Norton Security's Spin Filter (not a real application but probably should be) it spat out this waffle free answer:

A. Jonathan Shaw: It is a long established principle that the Government do not meet the costs of consequential losses which must be borne by the industry. However, we are acutely aware that the blame for this outbreak is totally and utterly ours. It escaped from a poorly maintained and pathetically underfunded government laboratory and my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State (Hilary Benn), announced on 8 October a compensation package for England worth £12.5 million. Now can you please stop asking these embarrassing questions.