Why is the media so obsessed with Obama, when we have our very own election to worry about? Yes, the Glenrothes bi-election is today, which possibly will signal the end of the Brown premiership and bring about a general election, yet the Torygraph has a dozen “comment” articles about Obama yet only one (very short) article on Glenrothes.

With literally hundreds of BBC reporters in the USA, and I am sure Brown was aware of this many weeks ago, the bias in coverage is easily explained. What were the beeb thinking of? I even saw one interview with the great grand daughter of the first self made black American millionaire. Like she had actually done anything in her life that was interesting, or more importantly, had anything to contribute to the debate.

And as I said above - Brown must of known what aunty beeb (and others) were up to. And that is why he chose to have the election 2 days after the USA election. This debacle is yet another example of how Brown is perfectly willing to abuse his powers for party political gain. The sooner we have fixed term parliaments and the decision of when to hold bi-elections made by the Electoral Commission the better. The primary concern about when to hold elections should be to ensure the playing field is as level as possible with respect to external events.

But this attempt at a media blackout may backfire on Brown. It means the campaign agenda is no longer set by the national media, but by what happens on the ground. And the SNP are excellent at these kind of campaigns. Let’s not forget, if Brown looses that election, the media focus will have done a full circle and have its sights firmly aimed back at Brown.