James Forsyth James Forsyth

Contradictory Gordon

This morning, Gordon Brown told the Commons liaison committee:

“You cannot make decisions and assume that people will simply follow them. Most decisions can only be successful if people are part of the process.”

After that, he jetted off to sign the Treaty formerly known as the European constitution having denied people the role in the process that the Labour manifesto had promised them.

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