Mr. Transparency is now at Blair levels.

When he became Prime Minister last year, Gordon Brown promised that his premiership would be different, - "a different type of politics - a more open and honest dialogue". His deputy, Harriet Harman, promised that there would be "no spin".

It now emerges that Bottler is spending as much on personal advisers as his predecessor did. The total now stands at £1.75 million a year, and he has appointed about one adviser every week on average since the beginning of 2008. The annual spending has risen by £500,000 in 2008.

These appointments are all to "improve" his image and message and to try to avoid blunders, but does anyone not believe that they are to also to conceal information or to present it in a misleading way?

We, the tax payers are paying all this, of course, and at the same time when teachers, policemen and nurses are being told that there is no money and the poorest taxpayers are paying considerably more since the beginning of April.