Rachel Sylvester’s column in The Daily Telegraph today sums up brilliantly what Brown is up to with his call for a new politics. As Sylvester writes,
“[Gordon Brown’s] aim is to crush David Cameron and the Conservative Party, not just when the country next goes to the polls but for ever. He shares Chairman Mao’s view that “politics is war without bloodshed”. His idea of consensus politics is a one-party state.
Does anyone really believe that Mr Brown cares what Patrick Mercer, a man sacked by the Tory leader for what Labour MPs described as racist remarks, thinks about national security? Of course he doesn’t.
The big clunking fist has not turned into an outstretched palm. The Conservative MPs recruited by the Labour leader are like Lenin’s “useful idiots” – they are political puppets, summoned into the Government of all the talents, not to illuminate Mr Brown but to destabilise Mr Cameron.”
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