At PMQs, the only person trying to keep "Bullygate" going was some unknown backbencher whose question had clearly been planted earlier in the week. The whole thing is as dead as Andrew Rawnsley's career or Christine Pratt's "charity".
But then, think of everyone, and what an awful lot of them there were, who was touted in the Blair years as a potential obstacle to Brown's ascent. Where are they now? Most of them are not even standing this year, and none will ever again be a Minister.
The Tories are reduced to trying to blame Brown for prehistoric briefing against Alistair Darling by Damian McBride, whom Brown appears to have known only by his surname. Hundreds of people work in Downing Street, and they all think that they are best mates with the Prime Minister. But they are not.
All this, and Brown is against assisted suicide, too.
His article in the telegraph was pretty good, i think he might have even written it himself.
ReplyDeleteOh, he's a true beleiver on this one. In fact, agree with him or disagree with him on any given issue, but you know that he is always a true believer.
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