Message to Gordon - act now before it is too late or rather stop acting

If Gordon Brown really wants to save his premiership and even at this late stage it is possible... just - he needs to do the following:

1) Stop jumping on every bandwagon - wishing Andy Murray well at Wimbledon, promising gongs to Olympic medal winners, etc. Brown does it so ineffectually that it is obvious that he is only doing it because Blair did - forgetting that Blair got away with it.

2) Stand up to the EU - reinstate weekly bin collections, abandon any idea of ID cards, get rid of the Human Rights Act.

3) Remember that Blair was a one-off and stop trying to ape him. For ten years Brown stood by and watched Blair act because that is what Blair does and Brown indisputably can't. He is obviously out of his depth socially when not discussing endogenous growth theory so he should stick to what he knows.

4) Stop telling people he is listening and then telling them what he wants them to hear. As Alastair Campbell memorably said when Harriet Harman and Frank Field were having their spat - time for a little quiet.

Gordon Brown has probably, no make that almost certainly, lost Labour the next election and will go down, as I have said, before as his generation's Jim Callaghan - the older man who took over from a charismatic, people pleaser with an eye for the main chance.

But if he takes my advice (yeah right!), the scale of the defeat may not be so huge...