Damning with faint praise
James Forsyth 10:50am
Tonight’s Dispatches on Gordon Brown, which Pete blogged about on Sunday, has already generated a bunch of buzz. Reading the transcript, these two quotes jumped out at me as neither are meant to wound and are all the more telling for that:
Andrew Rawnsley: Would you have done that pre budget report differently?Alistair Darling: Well errm if I knew now what I knew then well errm off course there would be something’s I would do different, I actually think the inheritance tax changes that I made do have some merit.
Will Labour win the next election?Peter Hain: That’s a matter for the electorate, I think we’ve got a good chance of winning the next election
I think we still could win under Gordon but we’ve got a long way to go.
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Michael Hargrave
June 9th, 2008 11:16am Report this commentIt amazes me how Labour heavies are valiantly trying to defect the indefensible. I watch David Miliband, Hariet Harman and others in the government with open mouth and wander what occupies their thoughts when they go home to their beds and spouses. Fly on the wall-cam would be interesting.
David C
June 9th, 2008 11:38am Report this commentThey all appear to be damming the river of cold reality which will sweep them away.
Why are these people talking? Are they mad?
As usual, matters inside the Labour Party are nothing if not downright bizarre.
But quite frankly, I don't give a damn.
ColinG
June 9th, 2008 12:05pm Report this commentDamming?
John Miller
June 9th, 2008 1:15pm Report this commentDid Darling really say that? It is a transcript is it? Because it looks to me as though he has got a little bit muddled up. Either that or its the most long winded way of saying "I've forgotten"..
Spyder Perry
June 9th, 2008 1:42pm Report this commentFly-on-the-wall-cam for Mz. H. Harperson? I wouldn’t swallow that!
oldtimer
June 9th, 2008 3:22pm Report this commentI await the programme with interest. Perhaps it may even demonstrate, as never before, that Brown is the very embodiment of the Peter principle - namely that he has risen to the level of his incompetence.
Rex Burr
June 9th, 2008 8:13pm Report this commentDid this labour chancellor say that reducing tax on the very wealthy has some merit?
How?
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