Tag Archive for 'Gordon Brown'

Election talk: fluff

Talk of a General Election in March is just fluff, unless we as a nation can decide what MPs are really for.

Cameron’s False Step

Memo on expenses seen as ‘invitation to deselect’ — The Guardian.
David Cameron has been sailing close to the wind for some time, but, now we see the first (to mix a metaphor) truly false step. There was already suspicion that he was using the expenses crisis to sweep aside the ‘old guard’, and now a [...]

A house divided

Prescott — Miliband claims ‘divide Labour’ (BBC)
Gordon Brown’s Labour Party is a shadow of Tony Blair’s. Blair ran his party with a combination of charisma, implied promises, and the fear of missing out. Brown doesn’t so much run Labour as survive it. He is the eternal Mr Bean of British politics: no matter how hard [...]