Downcast of Downing St

Friday, May 09, 2008

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A daily drubbing in the press, a mop of blond hair at City Hall, now a slating in The Economist and a doomsday poll in The Sun...there is nowhere to hide for the PM at the moment. And to cap it all, Brown looks so downcast... As if he's carrying a terrible secret he can never share with the rest of us. Good leaders in the media age provide the public with a narrative. The Blair/Campbell axis and the first Clinton administration wrote the book on this. Unfortunately for Brown, he - and the people around him - failed to read it. So as the car-crash of the-election-that-never-was unfolded, the narrative began to be written for him.. The ditherer. Mr. Bean. Now a dour man entirely out of his depth. And, tragically for the Labour party, with a by-election disaster looming in Crewe and Nantwich - which will spawn further torrid press amid more nightmare polls - there's not a thing he can do about it right now.

Posted by James Silver - On Friday, May 09, 2008

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