Calm down dear, it's only a honeymoon

Just to add my tuppence worth to the reptile's considered deliberation (and let us acknowledge that for a lizard, his judgement is usually, but not always, correct).

Gordon is going to have a good few weeks, OK? He just is. Live with it. There are people who really, really want this to work and, in one of those rotten twists of fate, they can make a lot of noise.

A good example came this a.m. on the Today programme, natch, where the reporter compared Brown's ascension with Blair's election, saying that the fact there wouldn't be the screaming, flag waving children outside Downing St was a sign of the 'umbler nachure of this Brown premiership. Piffle, of course, but a positive message for the confused Daily Mail 'reader' (for want of a better word).

The challenge for our side is not to panic, to ride the next couple of months, to ignore the fools who comment on sites like conservative home. As 2008 gets moving in the US, let those of us on the right who can't let politics alone focus there - rather than giving ourselves hives about misleading MORI polls.

Westward, lo, the skies are brighter.