Gordon Brown is showing that he's modern, that he's not a stick-in-the mud.

He's a stick in the mud

Throw plenty of mud and some of it is bound to stick

Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.

It's not even in mud.

Going by the test results it's showing that it's not doing the job. We knew math was lacking so we addressed that. We'd like to see to English now.