So it looks like he was just in it for the ride then! I don't blame the PM, out of sheer decency he was trying to use the best brains at his disposal and sometimes that means looking outside the confines of party politics. But Lord Jones should have known better.When you are a government minister you represent the government as a whole, not just one tiny part of it. Any arguments, disagreements etc.. which occur, which is natural, should be conducted in private.
In any case, if he runs along to the Tories' now he will look a bit silly, in fact so would the Tories, which wouldn't be difficult.
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Paul - surely you don't really believe that Gordon Brown is motivated by shear decency ? The man is clearly very short of that.
The evidence of his behaviour and blatant political lies and spin rather points in the other direction. ( Examples are: telling untruths about Conservative spending plans at the last general election, about Boris' policing plans in PMQs, about the state of the economy, about his own role in the coup to remove Tony Blair, lying about the Lisbon treaty/breaking his manifesto promise on a referendum and of course telling us he would govern without the spin - then employing more spin merchants and advertising media types than Blair had ! )
Brown was trying to wrong foot the opposition by creating a big tent and setting up a one party state - Mugabe would have been proud of him. Those who support a healthy democracy based on honest discourse should be horrified by him.
We could argue this all day, but to compare Brown to Mugabe is disingenuous,esp when the former has brought in a national minimum wage, low unemployment, and various job creating initiatives. Plus I refuse to take lessons from the Conservatives whose leader has consistently shown himself to be putting photo opportunities before committed policy and whose economic spokesman, when he isn't making unpleasant and personalised comments about the PM, gets confused about how £487.000 got added to his office funds. A bit remiss of a possible future Chancellor of the Exchequer perhaps!
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