Darling warns of economic crisis.

The British Labour Party have been famous for spinning situations to their advantage, which only makes Alistair Darling's recent outburst make one suspect that he must be taking truth gas before he spoke to the Guardian.

He told the Guardian newspaper that the economic downturn would be more "profound and long-lasting" than most people had feared.

The Chancellor admitted the government had "patently" failed to get its message across that it understood people's concerns about rising living costs and growing job insecurity.

He said that voters were "pissed off" with Labour's handling of the economy, a key issue at the next election, and said it was "absolutely imperative" that ministers communicated their intentions better.

This coming 12 months will be the most difficult 12 months the Labour party has had in a generation, quite frankly.

"We have got our work cut out," he said.

I'll say they've got their work cut out. I've literally never heard of anyone winning the electorate over by stating that the country is facing "the worst economic downturn in sixty years".

Whether it's fair or not people will hold the government that has been in power for the last eleven years completely responsible for any economic downturn, so Darling's honesty is startling to say the least.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said Mr Darling had "let the cat out of the bag" about the state of the economy.

For once, one can't accuse the Conservatives of overstating their case.

I'm at a loss to work out what Darling was thinking of.

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Tags: Alastair Darling, UK economy, UK politics