Perceptive commentary
Michael Portillo makes some interesting comments about the Prime Minister in today's Times. I certainly empathized with the observations about the public being pretty fed up with banker bonus payments and the like. There is no doubt that there is a feeling that we have returned to an era of sleaze but I don't get a sense of the rage that was present the last time we experieced ongoing revelations of snouts in the troff which signalled the downfall of the Major government. I wonder how this percieved lack of rage will translate at the ballot box if Brown can maintain the illusion that he is not at least partly culpable for our economic problems and that his Treasury experience makes him the man to steer us to calmer waters. Cameron is not Obama and I can't see him delivering victory simply on a "time for a change agenda... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6078456.ece
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