Brown -- can a Prime Minister be more out of touch?

It's quite clear that of all the statists from around the world we could have running our country we have the worst.

Brown is now so out of touch that even his fellow statists think he's nuts after he announced his transaction tax plan...

Although officials later insisted that the UK was not wedded to the idea of a transactions levy – often termed a “Tobin tax” – the prime ministers’ intervention sparked an unusual degree of criticism from the G20, where delegations are increasingly irritated by his attempts to browbeat them into new policies.

Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary said: “A day-by-day financial transactions tax is not something we are prepared to support”, while Dominique Strauss Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund repeated his long-standing position that a Tobin tax is “a very old idea that is not really possible today”. One G20 official sensed there was no ripping enthusiasm for Mr Brown’s ideas across the G20.

But even more odd was Brown's statement that...

"It cannot be acceptable that the benefits of success in this sector are reaped by the few but the costs of its failure are borne by all of us"

This clearly shows Brown has absolutely no grasp of reallity. Given that it was he and his Government that bailed out the banks and made sure we all bore the costs of their failure.

I'm just wondering what he'll do next. Maybe he'll come out as a flat-earther.