El Gordo gets his man

Gordon Brown's got the man he wanted as general secretary of the Labour Party: David Pitt-Watson. A millionaire City bigwig. And thus Labour's journey along the road from socialism to, er, something else is now complete.

Pitt-Watson can argue to have articulated something of a post-socialist agenda in his book New Capitalists, which we haven't read. But we can guess it wasn't on Dennis Skinner's Christmast list.