What's the opposite of paranoia? Gordon Brown

I was just reading an article about German Chancellor Angela Merkel who is coming to the UK for a visit with Gordon Brown ahead of the G20 meeting in April. Despite Gordon's claims that Europe is united on the issues of the economy (a claim that was rubbished by News Rage UK last week for different reasons) it appears again that this is far from fact.

Merkel is in fact already committed with Sarkozy of France to send a common signal that spending more money is not an answer to the crisis. In other words, giving industries £billions upon £billions of public money is wrong. "The issue is not spending even more but to put in place a regulatory system to prevent the economic catastrophe that the world is experiencing from being repeated," she said.

Brown seems to be putting his fingers in his ears and singing "la, la, la". He seems to be oblivious to what other people are saying about the crisis. The Germans have never agreed with his handling of the crisis. German finance minister Peer Steinbruck caused controversy in December when he criticised UK policies on the VAT cut which we will have to start paying for sooner than many think. Brown however continues to insist that the two countries are on the same path, with Germany launching its own stimulus package.

Call me crazy, but isn't that a bit like saying black and white are the same colour but they're just used to colour different things. It doesn't make any sense. The government seems to be of the mind that if you keep telling people that things are so, then they will be so or at least people will believe that it will be so. The thing is, whatever way you look at it, black is black and white is white and I think, or at least I hope that people are beginning to acknowledge the whopping great cracks in not only this government's economic policies and management but also in just about everything this government is claiming to have achieved.

My thoughts are that either Brown actually believes that everyone is on his side and agrees with his plans, in which case the lunatics have taken over the asylum! or he is not giving the electorate and the British people credit for the intelligence they possess, in which case again the lunatics have taken over the asylum! We're clearly in a loose loose situation with this government and this style of politics and that really makes me mad!!!