Self inflicted wound

When troubles come they come not as single spies but in battalions. I once said that about the Lib Dems and shortly afterwards Ming Campbell was knifed by his own party.

The election that never was, Northern Rock, HMRC's lost data, Defence Chiefs on the attack, Dodgy donors, what next?

Gordon Brown must be looking at the waves of troubles coming at him from the front and the knives from behind.