Gordon Brown's "Audacity of Hopelessness"

I find that I follow UK politics more closely than US politics, perhaps because I like the political commentary in Britain so much more. For example, I found this note in The Spectator to be very funny (and true):

Labour got 15 per cent of the vote in the European elections, in which only 34 per cent of the electorate voted. That is roughly five per cent of those entitled to vote. When you add those too young to vote, this means that, on average, only one in every 25 people you pass in the street voted Labour last week. So when Mr Brown emerged triumphant from the meeting of his parliamentary party on Monday, his slogan was really ‘The Audacity of Hopelessness’.

As popular as Tony Blair was, Gordon Brown...isn't. At all. Labour has really messed up over there, and then managed to get caught in the economic crisis, as well. Double whammy.

And yet Brown continues to hope....