Re: Gordon Brown At breakfast

MM wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:23:27 +0200, "John of Aix"
<j.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

incognito wrote:
As resounding approval for David Davis begins to reverberate around
the country Brown will begin biting his nails to the quick. He will
shiver in his yellow skin whilst he contemplates the awful thought
that David Davis may have hit a chord with the public.

David Davis has hit a chord with the public but what will really
happen in the end? It might start a national debate, it should do so
in fact, but for him personally he could end up with jam on his face.

He has said, more than once, that he doesn't care for his personal
position. He's 58, for goodness' sake. and probably looks forward to
his retirement. He will win. There's no doubt. And he will be content
to sit on the back benches as a warning to Cameron. There are many,
many precedents.

Plenty of precedents for 'stands' yes, but their subsequent influence
has usually been pretty minimal. I can't think of any one that has
fundamentally changed things.

What if the
people of his constituency donn't bother to give him the massive
'independent' vote he seeks?

They will.

That is an opinion not a fact. We'll see.

He'll ring pretty hollow in such a case the
so-called 'massive support' will be seen as media clap trap.

You sound like you want him to lose. That no one should stand up for
principles. That he is doing politics a disservice. You sound like the
Westminster Village.

He can't possibly lose and I am glad that he is standing up for his
principles, as should everyone, but I fear that this is a futile
exercise.

Can it be possible, he will be thinking, that in modern Britain
people still care about old fashioned virtues such as: Honesty,
integrity, patriotism and courage.

Of course they do and long may they reign but is he really
exemplifying those values?

Obviously! Hear the cacophony against him. There's your evidence. The
hacks don't understand principle, can't comprehend it. They only
understand typical political machinations that the general public is
heartily fed up and sick to death with. That's why the pundits are so
out of touch with their readers and listeners. It's going to be an
eye-opener for them.

It seems to me that criticism has not been of his stand so much as the
method he has chosen to make it and its potential usefulness.



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