In free fall without a parachute, unassisted suicide, accelerating the wrong way down a motorway – the death metaphors are flowing in a dark torrent of despair from Labour MPs. What made Gordon Brown hurl himself on that row of Gurkha kukri knives? Drowning at 19% behind in the latest polls, few think the party will come up for air a third time. That YouTube grinning death's head is now a worldwide comic hit, while in the flesh the man looks more battered and hunted with each passing day. He suffers from tone deafness to everything.
"I don't regret anything I've done!" Gordon Brown declared at the press conference this week where he was abused for his economic policy by the impudent Polish prime minister, a man himself on his knees to the IMF. That's what happens when the mantle of authority slips. Whose bright idea was it to put out a chirpy press release this week promising a crackdown on rogue wheelclampers, echoing John Major's dying cones hotline?
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