As Three Line Whip points out, yet another Labour figure has joined the long, long queue to give Gordon Brown a kicking. This time it’s the Labour MP Ken Purchase, who is less-than-kind about the Government in an ePolitix interview. Here’s what he has to say about Brown’s election climbdown:
“I thought that was a serious mistake … The actual event itself, I think was a bit overplayed by the media but it has had this lasting effect of branding Gordon a ditherer.
It was a mistake and I thought that older and wiser counsel should have prevailed much earlier – it should have been stopped much, much earlier.”
“Older and wiser counsel”? That’s not a dig at Ed Ball, is it? He follows it up with this:
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