I assume, in accordance with the stale conventions of our time, that the Prime Minister’s treatment of his staff will soon be dubbed Bullygate. But I think we all knew that Gordon Brown is, shall we say, a difficult man to work for. So I broadly agree with Jonathan Pearce’s take: the character of the man matters but it’s hardly the best reason for thinking a change of Prime Minister overdue.
Meanwhile, as so often, there are few scenes more entertaining than the British press indulging its appetite for humbug and hypocrisy. Indeed, what with his penchant for screaming foul-mouthed abuse at subordinates and for flinging phones and anything else that comes to hand about the place, one could be forgiven for thinking that whatever his short-comings as Prime Minister, Gordon is at least qualified to edit a national newspaper…
Actually, the most damaging part of the Rawnsley Revelations may be this:
As Chancellor, Brown had often been able to do his Macavity trick of disappearing in a crisis.
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