Brown’s sermon on The Mound

Do you give in yet? Because Gordon Brown still isn’t through. Another speech tomorrow, to the General Assembly on the Church of Scotland at The Mound in Edinburgh. Pointedly, it’s the 20th anniversary of Thatcher’s speech there – allowing Brown to contrast his mission with her wickedness. We can expect a pious regurgitation of his goals. Shame the means he chooses are inimical to those goals. Most of all, we can expect a dusting down of Brown’s Son of a Preacher Man credentials. Brown has only two oratorical styles: the pulpit sermon, inspired by his clergyman father, and the statistical, rapid-fire, speak-your-weight machine.

I, for one, will listen. Brown is sincere in his beliefs, as most lefties are. One cannot accuse him of seeking power for its own sake, he just suffers from the classic leftist conceit. He believes that the more power is placed in the hands of a virtuous elite, the better society will be.