Bob. We know that since Gordon's 'non election' the press, deprived of weeks of comment and speculation would give him a kicking. That honest, distinguished and respected seeker of truth Quentin Letts confirmed that on the green outside the HoC. And that's exactly what's happened.
This is just another, relentlessly lying, par for the course article, which gullible readers will believe to be true and who don't realise that papers have an agenda and hunt in a pack. There is no honesty in the print media, only opinion and comment. And as for your summing up of this article - thanks for bringing it to my attention - and one might wish it would shame the authors, but we know it won't.

I shouldn't worry about the Indescribablysparty too much. Most sane people stopped reading it when it started all those front-page op-ed pieces telling us to stick on our hairshirts and live in complete self-denial forever. Some of us would rather be extinct.

To be honest it's all getting a bit ridiculous now.Apparently this person and that person are going to launch a leadership bid but the named person always denies it when approached.We are now getting into the territory of the papers simply making stuff up in the hope that someone will believe all the bullshit and come forward.Yes we are all fed up, we think Brown needs to do something- something permanent on tax and social housing would be nice, yes we think there are duffers in the cabinet, but no one I have spoken to thinks ditching Brown would make a jot of difference. I'm assuming the media will eventually end this once they realise their readership/viewers get bored.

It is important to remember that despite being part of a global media empire, the Indy has probably the smallest editorial budget of any national (although the Sport and Express are pretty close). It has a small staff and its freelance rates are very low (around a quarter of what the Daily Mail pays).

This is why it has no option but to be a viewspaper, rather than a newspaper and make up stuff like this.

It aspires to be to the Guardian what the Daily Express is to the Daily Mail i.e. a cheap knock-off.

They're all at it today.

I'm not surprised. This is a paper that re-launched with less content, but at the same price, because it was trying to entice people who don't have time to read much on a Sunday. I don't think they reckoned with people who don't have time to read much but like to have a bit of choice for their money.

I was only 10 when Major took over from the old handbag so I can't really remember but were the knives out for him from the start as well? If so we've got about five or six years of these sorts of headlines before anything changes, because he survived actual challenges to his leadership rather than mere speculation, so there really is very little point in it.

I thought it was a very interesting article actually. By the way is it true that some MPs are trying to persuade Tony Blair to make a comeback?

The indie is truly shite.

At least they're putting news on the front page now.

Well, I say 'news'...

It is lazy journalism, Bob. All credit to you for reading it four times to see if you were missing something. I don't think I would have read half of it before moving on to something else. Perhaps they shouldn't have dropped the dead donkey.