Paranoia rather than camaraderie

Alastair

Never again should this country get into a situation where one individual with a few cronies can bankrupt the country with flawed policies - unsupervised by the cabinet and his own political party.

Watt Tyler

sorry, Off topic (but frankly this piece is tows the party-line too much to provoke much surprise or other comment):

Delingpole reports that after the resignation last week of 5 front benhers, the Australian Liberal party has dumped its pro-ETS leader.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018413/climategate-claims-its-first-big-political-scalp/

I wonder if the Conservative parliamentary party aware of this development. There will only be one winner between (true) science and government, and Cameron is on the wrong side, and will be found wanting.

London Calling

And at the end of this article by the Times you forgot to add on David Cameron:

"With his Notting Hill dinner parties and his close coterie of aides, the Tory leader is at least as cliquey as Mr Blair — and equally reluctant to listen to dissenting voices. If he becomes prime minister not only will he have a sofa in the Downing Street den — but it may well be purchased from his mother-in-law’s furniture shop Oka, and teamed with a “birdcage coffee table” and a divine pair of “elephant lamps”.

Ouch!! I take it therefore that it is presumed David Cameron will be no different?

Its called Politics...Trust no one but the few, no minutes, no comeback, it worked for Blair...or so he thought.

strapworld

This is superb. Taken from the American Foreign Affairs mag. The TOP 100 global thinkers.
I can see only two Brits and at number 47 is Christopher Hitchens.

BUT, at Number 74 is our Prime Mentalist,74. Gordon Brown

"for his leadership during the financial crisis".

This is what they say, and I bet this will not be part of any Number 10 Press Briefing!!

"Brown will very likely not be prime minister of Britain for much longer. The Labour Party will almost certainly suffer ignominious defeat in a national election sometime by mid-2010. The prime minister, who as chancellor of the exchequer under Prime Minister Tony Blair oversaw the inflation of massive housing and financial bubbles, will be known by his caricature in the British press, as a paranoid, bellowing, and incompetent leader. But even if Brown did not do enough to stop the bubbles from developing, he proved one of the world's most courageous leaders after they had burst. His government may not have quite "saved the world," as he claimed to much derision last December, but in acting immediately and forcefully to prevent disaster by nationalizing failing banks, pushing through massive stimulus measures, and urging his counterparts to do the same, he just may have saved his reputation".

Percy

"Saved his reputation"

Occasional Ostrich

London Calling
December 1st, 2009 1:15pm

"listen to dissenting voices"? Where would the sainted Lady T. have got if she'd listened to the backsliders and cavillers in her early cabinet? Indeed, one could make a case that it was through listening to them too much later on that led to her downfall.

Seacole

'shop Oka, and teamed with a “birdcage coffee table” and a divine pair of “elephant lamps."'

This should read:

"teamed with a bird-dropping bespattered coffee-table (cue UKIP, Neather,BNP etc) and a divine pair of bear-trap gargoyles (economy, Iran"

R King

If his is the reputation to be "saved"?

I think not!!!!

Dennis Churchill

Our political class is drawn from such a small group, few of whom have experience at a senior level outside politics that it is inevitable they are unable to manage.

General Zod

Watt Tyler, don't get too excited; the most likely scenario in Australia now is that Kevin Rudd calls a snap election that he will win easily. Tony Abbot will then be dumped as quickly as he took over. Then malcolm Turnbull, easily the most talented man in Australian politics will quite probably take over hte Liberal Party again.

Chuck Unsworth

@ Watt Tyler

Does 'towing the party line' have something to do with drag?

General Zod

You are treading on his toes, Chuck.