Gordon doesn't get it
James Forsyth 3:31pm
Anatole Kaletsky has a cracking column in The Times today about Gordon Brown’s political difficulties. One point is particularly worth noting: Brown doesn’t know how to triangulate. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were geniuses at triangulating because they knew it wasn’t simply splitting the difference between left and right but finding, cliché alert, a third way to address the problem. Brown, however, either goes for straightforward clothes stealing, as he has over immigration, or tries to split the difference between the Tory and Labour positions, as he did on inheritance tax.
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adrian drummond
October 25th, 2007 5:19pm Report this commentI read that too. I found it very interesting. Recent articles by Anatole Kaletsky have been quite critical of Brown: 'Beginning of the end for new Labour' 'Brown must admit his costly blunders' 'Who needs election when Chancellor steals policies?'
ken from glos
October 25th, 2007 5:41pm Report this commentThe Blairites have said all along that he would make a dreadful Prime Minister.That is the polite version!! They are right.
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