Divide and be conquered

This anecdote in Rachel Sylvester’s column really does say a lot about our Dear Leader:

“[Gordon Brown] makes gestures to different factions rather than leading from the front. A few weeks ago, he set up a weekly strategy meeting involving Peter Mandelson, Alastair Campbell and Philip Gould – the Blairites refused to go when they discovered that he was planning a separate session the following day with Ed Balls and the old ‘Brownite’ cabal. After a standoff, the two sessions were eventually merged. As one Cabinet minister puts it: ‘Gordon has got to the top by fixing the Labour Party machine, but you can’t fix the electorate. They want a vision.'”