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There is one conclusion to be drawn from the past month. The Brownites are better at playing politics than the Cameroons. Now that Peter Mandelson is in charge, every aspect of government has been sublimated into politics, and to Tory-bashing. Gordon Brown is desperate to deflect attention from the size of the Budget deficit, the need for large-scale cuts to reduce it, and his twelve year record of overspending and waste. He wants to fight the next election on the fifty per cent tax rate, Michael Ashcroft's tax status and the Tories' plans to destroy the NHS. This is a strategy which has no basis in reality or truth, yet it is still afloat.