Tag: gordon-brown
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Last week I attended Labour’s autumn conference as an exhibitor. These are my thoughts on how it went. By Labour’s own standards, they have had a good conference – but it is a sign of how far they have fallen that those standards were so low. Simply put: the widely predicted civil war didn’t happen,…
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Last year, Gordon Brown wrote a book on courage only for it to emerge that he had anything but. This year he is to write a book on being British. Should we therefore assume it is about to be revealed that he is in fact French?
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If you want evidence of how weak the UK’s model of Parliamentary democracy truly is, you only need to glance at this article: Parliament should be able to bypass ministers and launch its own inquiries into issues of “exceptional” public concern such as the Iraq war, MPs say. This is a power that pretty much…
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Having a pop at Gordon Brown for failing to show his face in Crewe and Nantwich is all fair and good, but why does David Cameron have to go and spoil everything by talking unmitigated bullshit like this? Mr Cameron taunted him by saying his predecessor as PM, Tony Blair, “led from the front” at…
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Credit where it’s due, at least Alastair Darling’s statement today has the virtue of being a simple change, rather than the convoluted nonsense he was talking about a couple of weeks ago. I find the psychology of Labour ministers throughout this debacle fascinating. At each and every turn their response has been to sell off…