Friday, 5 September 2008

Living on an island


In a speech to the Scottish CBI last night, Gordon Brown again repeated his line that Britain’s deepening economic crisis was the fault of everyone but himself.

And in a message to the British people, he proclaimed loftily that he and his Chancellor, Alistair Darling, “understand the difficulties you face.”

The Prime Minister then failed to offer a single suggestion on how he intended to turn things around.

Instead what we had was a man standing on a stage, holding his hands aloft and crying, “my hands are clean and I don’t intend getting them dirty for you lot.”

It’s a total abdication of his responsibilities.

Do you think if he joined Mr Darling at his Outer Hebridian croft for a few weeks and didn’t call in, would anyone notice?

I would say not.

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