As no one has started a post on the direct action at the oil refineries and power plants, I will.

It seems that our Great Leaders' populist chant of British jobs for British workers has come around to bite him on the bum.

Rawnsley nails him in the Observer today...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...s-gordon-brown

Brown was deliberately being disingenuous when he ripped off the slogan from the BNP. He knows that our membership of the EU doesn't allow the UK government, or any other EU government come to that, to stop workers from the EU working anywhere they want within Europe. Unfortunatley a lot of people either don't know that or took Brown at his word. So now we have a situation that is spreading spontaneously across Britain, where folks are demanding that Brown follow up on his mantra. He can't. When the penny drops and the mob calls his bluff, I predict trouble.

So, has Brown inadvertently handed over a propaganda coup to the far right? He's already as popular as a fart in a spacesuit and this will not do him or Liebour any good. In fact I can see no good to come out of this at all.