I like Gordon Brown. That's not a ‘cool' thing to say in the media at the moment, the bandwagon of anti-Brown writers is growing by the day.

Despite the mess the government is in I still think Brown is an intelligent, trustworthy and decisive man, a good leader to have in a crisis. But do I think he should be our Prime Minister? No, for one simple reason - he can't communicate with us.

Every time I see poor old Gordon talk I want to end it all. He's either creepily happy to the point of nausea or he's morbidly depressing, there's little in-between.

We look across the pond and see Barack Obama charming audiences with his fresh, well-delivered speeches then we look back at our TV sets and see Brown either struggling to save his political life with an (understandably) mopey face or see him on the GMTV sofa saying how much he likes Susan Boyle, with a hideously forged smile. Doesn't seem fair does it?  Where's our charismatic leader? Where's our hope?

So what's the alternative? Realistically the only alternative at the moment is David Cameron. I don't like Cameron, I think he's smarmy and I don't think he really has many strong ideas of his own. He jumped on the back of both Nick Clegg's big wins lately - a call for the Speaker to quit and the "justice for Ghurkas" campaign. But say what you like about Cameron, he talks a good talk and in modern politics if you can do that you're half way there. He speaks with confidence, passion and energy and that's exactly what we need to hear at the moment.

We need change, we need light at the end of the tunnel; we need hope. Will all that come if/when Cameron is elected? I doubt it, but we probably won't be feeling so morbid every time we see the news and that's a start at least.