If Gordon Brown truly did wish to “address his weaknesses”, as promised in his grovel last Monday to the PLP, he would have abandoned the spin that got him into such trouble last Easter and led to the auto da fé of Damian McBride.
Instead, he persists in treating the people as fools, writing (or, more probably, authorising) a ludicrous piece in today’s Mirror, in which he dubs David Cameron “Mr Ten Per Cent” and declares that “Cameron’s cuts will make the recession worse”.
Brown knows full well that it is Labour’s own budget projections that make spending cuts inevitable; furthermore, every respected commentator knows it, too. Yet he persists in trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the electorate.
Everyone knew that Brown would be bound, sooner or later, to revert to type. But less than a week is really going it, even by his own abysmal standards.
We all know a leopard cannot change his spots, and Gordon is so obstinate and obsessional, he couldn’t possibly change anything about his behaviour.
Sadly, a lot of Mirror readers will believe the rubbish written on his behalf, which is why the article is in that newspaper and not, for instance, in the Sunday Mail. Interesting, also that there is no opportunity to comment …. I guess Gordon’s still not in ‘listening mode’ either.
But looking on the bright side, up to now the Media in general (and even Marr this morning) seem to have collectively decided to call ‘time’ on Gordon’s lies with regards to “Labour investment v Tory cuts. ” Let’s hope the blatent lies our discredited PM told to the lobby correspondents during his post-Cabinet reshuffle news conference has made them determined to expose him for what he is; a liar.
I simply can’t see any justification for keeping spending high either.
Every single public service is failing – spending cuts should be simply a pre-requisite to reform, not a massive obstacle to public service improvement.
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