Brown’s battle with the Germans rumbles on

So yet another German politician has launched a broadside against Gordon Brown’s debt-heavy approach to the downturn.  Here’s what Steffen Kampeter said earlier: 

“The tremendous amount of debt being offered by Britain shows a complete failure of Labour policy…

…After years of lecturing us on how we need to share in the gains of uncontrolled financial markets, the Labour politicians can’t now expect us to share in its losses…

…In questioning the British government’s approach, Peer Steinbrück is exactly expressing the views of the German Grand Coalition.”

Sure, Kampeter is just a backbencher.  But, still, the fact he’s a member of Angela Merkel’s CDU party – along with his claim that the SDP’s Steinbrück is “exactly expressing the views of the German Grand Coalition” – undermines Brown’s charge that this is all down to “internal [party] politics” in Germany.