Rachel Sylvester has a rather damning article in the Times again on the subject of Gordon Brown’s inability to govern as he is indecisive and dithering. As Rachel says:
Perhaps it is, as Lord Mandelson suggests, because he is so driven. But other ministers say that Mr Brown’s tendency to go into an emotional frenzy makes it harder for him to make decisions in a calm and cool manner. “Children lose control and have a tantrum when they don’t get their way because that’s the only way they can assert themselves,” says one. “Gordon’s anger is a sign of weakness and insecurity — and that matters because weakness leads to indecision and dithering and there are endless examples of that.”
There are some people who get things done by shouting, but Mr Brown’s meltdown moments seem to create a sense of paralysis. Indeed, Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, has privately expressed concern about Mr Brown’s inability to see the wood for the trees and act, as well as about his behaviour to staff. It cannot help that the Prime Minister creates an atmosphere that makes it hard for people to tell him when he is wrong.
The impression of the article is of a man barely in control and at times out of control. Gordon Brown is Unfit for Office.
Time for a Change.
Mr Angry at No 10 should read Jane Austen | Rachel Sylvester – Times Online.
Stop Dithering and call the Election
Read Jeff Randall’s column in the Telegraph to get an idea about how poorly Britain has become under Labour and in particular the dithering Gordon Brown. He summarises it as follows.
In short, sterling is in the toilet, our pensions have been slaughtered, cash savings yield almost nothing, the country is up to its neck in unprecedented debt, the banking system is awash with funny money, our gold reserves were sold off at rock-bottom prices, and Britain’s dole queue is considerably longer than before Crash Gordon began cooking the books.
Apart from that, it’s not too bad.
In the meantime while we are on the road to rack and ruin, Gordon sits in N010 dithering about how to avoid having a Budget before the Election and when he should go to the Country, perhaps he is dithering until his “Tears for Piers” programme has gone out.
Never mind in his own little world Gordon can do wrong, According to the FT, Brown has declared
“We are paying a one-off cost for globalisation.”
So this is not his fault just everyone else’s, when will he work out that he is the problem and not the solution.
Time for a Change.
What has Gordon Brown done for Britain since his first Budget? – Telegraph.
Last night the HoC voted for Electoral change, not reform. All it did was ask for a change from one voting system First past the Post (FPtP) to Alternative Voting (AV).
AV is symptomatic of our times, a system supposedly designed to make sure that the majority wins, but in fact trying to ensure mediocre consensus candidates (or just plain liars) win. If you vote for one of the two most popular parties only your first preference counts. If you vote for a party that cannot win you effectively vote twice, as your second preference, which has the same value now as a first preference, then helps decide which of the front runners has won. How can that be fair.
This is the politics of mediocrity and duplicity, well suited to Gordon Brown, it is the politics of the ditherer, which is why it is no surprise that Gordon Brown has championed it in his death-bed attempt to try and bribe the Lib Dems into helping him in the forlorn hope that he achieves a hung parliament.
The only good thing is that AV will never become law, and Gordon Brown knows this. He only put it forward to try and bribe the Lib Dems, and they as usual did his bidding so that they can again try and jump up on the knees of Labour and Gordon Brown and become their Lap Dogs to be played and petted until their usefulness is past. They did this in Scotland and the public have shown them the door. You would have thought once bitten, twice shy, but the Lib Dems never seem to learn the hard lessons of Politics.
Putting it beyond doubt | Electoral reform | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian.
As MP’s vote on whether or not they should vote to have a referendum on moving to AV, I just wondered if we could first of all ask them to start voting using AV for everything in Parliament and also have secret rather than whipped votes.
We could then have laws that were the least unpopular. Sounds good to me. Should also suit the dithering and delaying Gordon Brown.
Gordon Brown is the road-block to proper reform.
Time for a Change
BBC News – MPs to decide on vote system referendum.
Twice in one day we see the dithering delaying Brown in action.
First, we had this morning the humiliating climbdown when, Brown finally worked out it was time to suspend it’s three MP’s accused of being Cheating Bastards.
It took David Cameron approx 5 minutes to do what it took Gordon Brown 72 hours and a large boot to the ass to do.
Then later on Brown finally realised that having Labour’s lawyers trying to defend the Cheating Bastards wasn’t a great idea and stop instructing them while the cases of the Cheating Bastards are sorted out.
I suspect we will see a few more cases of the dreaded Dithering Delaying Brown this week.
Time for a Change.
Gary Gibbon on Politics – Tory tactics in attacking PM risks backlash on all parties.
