Brown throws up another smokescreen

If everything was going smoothly in the warm-up for the G20….

If France and Germany were playing ball….

If Mervyn King had not spoken as he did to the Treasury select committee….

If the financial markets had sold the gilts….

If Stephen Byers had not said the the G20 will fail….

If Dan Hannan had not made that speech….

….Would Brown have stolen the headlines this morning with his plans to change the rules of succession to the throne?

Will someone wake me up when the nightmare of Brown’s premiership is over.