It may be a village but it needs a modern sewage system

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I've just watched Ed Miliband handling the decision not to call an election. He looked relieved as he justified it, and had probably argued against it as he had to write the manifesto! But the ease with which he dismissed the "bubble of speculation" in "the Westminster Village" as something that the rest of the country will shrug off and forget about as it weighs Gordon Brown's record of delivery on "real issues", while polished and impressive did not convince me. Brown opened his premiership by declaring that the re-establishment of trust would be a guiding priority for him. The disastrous roll-out of the citizens juries has had the opposite effect and this will too.