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What do you do when you want to concrete all over the South’s green belt?
Well if you’re this government you call the developments ‘eco’ towns and pretend that instead of destroying the environment you are actually protecting it. Sadly for Brown’s plans it looks like the great British public are seeing through the scam.
Now even the likes of Janet Street-Porter are complaining. Not in her back yard you don’t.
Ms Street-Porter also questions the competence of Housing Minister Caroline Flint for flashing her notes to photographers. Really Ms Street-Porter, I should have thought you above all else would have realised that pushy Ms Flint was more interested in flashing her legs than in covering up her notes. Whew! I say!
Gordon Brown regularly says he is the best man to lead Britain through the credit crunch. He was at it again this morning, though sounding increasingly unsure and more desperate.
He also says we are, thanks of course to him, in a good position to weather this storm. Hmmm… clearly he is in denial. He needs to read the business pages. They are universally torrid in their economic outlook. But somehow I suspect that Brown thinks he is the man who knows best and reading about the real world is just plain beneath him.
And you know things are really seriously bad for Brown when a writer from the absurdly self consciously liberal Independent uses phrases like “The Government is ideologically spastic “. And indeed when a leader in the same Independent puts together the most succinct, devastating critique of the duplicitous Brown’s smoke and mirrors technique that one could hope to read anywhere, then you know that words like ‘terminal decline’ are becoming wholly inadequate to describe Labour.
Ah well, we will all just have to wait until the real world comes back and bites him.
