BBC NEWS | Politics | Brown hails EU recovery package.

"Gordon Brown has said European leaders have agreed to back an "ambitious and co-ordinated" recovery plan to help their economies through the downturn.

The package, negotiated at an EU summit in Brussels, will see 200bn euros of funding - equivalent to 1.5% of the EU total output, poured into economies.

Mr Brown said measures would include "judicious" tax cuts and acceleration of public spending projects.

The agreement "answered" criticism that the EU was not united on the issue"

Yes, quite so. And no Ukrainians died of starvation in 1932/3 either. That's what people of the PM's political persuasion were saying at the time and we need no longer doubt that they are still capable of such massive self-deception. Then, they were useful idiots for dear old "Uncle Joe." Now, they are our very own useless idiots and a living, breathing critique of Britain's democracy.

Judging by their choice of picture to accompany this ludicrous statement, it seems even some of the good little comrades at Electronic Pravda the BBC are tiring of Uncle Gord's detachment from reality.

Update:

The Millibland is not to be out-Webbed by his political master.