Why do politicians feel it necessary to spout off about things that really aren’t anything to do with them, and on which we don’t want to know – or care about – what they think.

This being a prime example.

Why does Gordon Brown need to inform us that he thinks that Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand are “inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour”.?

Or David Cameron that he thinks that “the main question is why did they allow this programme to be broadcast, given that it was pre-recorded?”

We can all make up our own opinions on whether the behaviour of Ross and Brand on the show was inappropriate and unacceptable, and we can all ask questions.

So why do politicans feel that they have to say something where there is no need? It’s just so that they can get their face on the TV, isn’t it?

Personally, I can’t see much issue over this. They said somethings that were rather less than polite, but the whole furore that has arisen around this incidient is absurd.

When you listen to Russell Brand – or indeed any modern comedian – you know that they re going to say something that someone finds offensive. If you find them offensive, don’t listen. Like with the Daily Hatemail – you if you read it, you’re going to read views that are offensive from ‘columnists’ like Richard Littlejohn and Melanie Phillips, but there is no call to sack them for it.