I don't want reproduce the picture, because it's a scoop and I'll probably get sued, but click this for a nice close-up. It's a picture of "Housing Minister" Caroline Flint's Cabinet briefing notes, caught by a photographer as she waived them around while entering No. 10. "These things happen," she said, afterward. They do - but they shouldn't, especially with economic confidence at an all-time low, the market ruled by sentiment, and fear currently a knife-edge from panic. The notes revealed that Government officials expect house prices to dip 5%-10% "at best" this year, and stated "we can't know how bad it will get" (which - if you think about it - is kind of obvious, but Flint still needed it written down). Really, it's another fumble... another moment of clumsiness that will cost British people, none of whom will have voted for a Government of teenagers led by a damaged class bully. The Rat and Mouse has no party political agenda whatsoever (but rather takes the view that the very act of running for a public position is enough to demonstrate unsuitability). In this instance, though, it's time Gordon Brown and his mediocre but oh-so arrogant cabinet called an election.

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