If you doubted that Gordon Brown’s government is already exhausted, consider the nonsense being peddled by Stephen Carter, the former PR supremo brought in to salvage something – anything! – for Gordon.
From Iain Martin’s column today:
A couple of takes on Carter’s actions are being briefed: either a justified clear-out of the team that brought you the election-that-never-was, or another example of outside experts misunderstanding tribal Labour. Probably, it is a bit both. What is clear is that on Tuesday, in scenes redolent of The Office and David Brent, Carter divided up the Cabinet into “break-away” groups of six or seven, where they were given problems to solve – such as how the next election might be won. They then had to report back to Brown and Carter. What a picture the faces of grey beards such as Jack Straw and Geoff Hoon must have been as Her Majesty’s ministers were ordered to play management games.
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