I write this in the press centre at Labour fresh from hearing our Prime Minister's desparate bid to cling onto power.
Britain's 12 million or so children and young people got boiled down to "teenage tearaways", state-scrounging 16-and 17-year olds, in Gordon Brown's speech.
He want to put away 16-and 17-year-olds who become parents and of course "get support from the state" - yes, that's you, Mr and Mrs J Public - into a "network of supervised homes" where they can "learn responsibility"!
The political editors around me are already filing the headlines - "Brown takes on Broken Britain"- chirped one just now.
What the hell happened to our great leader? Did GB wake up this morning with a brand new moral compass pointing right back to the reign of Queen Victoria?
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