Five, four, three, two, one, three, three,

one, three, it works.

Thunderbirds are gold.

Let's talk to John Rental, Chief, political pollinator at the independent.

John, very good morning to you.

Good morning, Mike.

So, I mean, we have to say, whatever you might think about Kirstama, he should not be out

there trying to raise the glass for Christmas because I mean, it's about the worst countdown I think I've ever seen of any countdown in the history of countdowns.

Well, he was trying. Give him, give him marks for trying.

No, he's the prime minister. He should be a guy. I mean, can you imagine if Tony Blair had done that, right?

And I know that you and I think Tony Blair was a much more substantial Prime Minister than Keir's

Tom will ever be. I mean, I think Gordon Brown wouldn't have been very good at it either,

but he had the brains not to do it. No, he would have just, he would have just switched it on

and said some, said some somber words about how... Or some clever spin doctor would have got a child to do it or something.

You know, they'd have done something different.

What they wouldn't have done is gone,

Kirstama, the world's most wooden Prime Minister.

See if you can get the shackles going of all the people watching this,

and they'll all have a great time.

Because when he asked people to join in, they didn't join in either. No, and there was only a handful of people there anyway.

I know. Yeah. It's not the most important failing of the government. It's not. But when he ends with

the rather surprising sentence, a bit of a nervous moment there, but it worked.

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