From Andrew Rawnsley’s (must-read) column yesterday:
A member of the no contrition tendency in the cabinet says: “Gordon apologise? Bugger that. No way. People don’t want to see him wringing his hands. They don’t want him to get into this psycho-babble. They want him to get the job done.”
Is this actually true? I mean, do people actually want Gordon to “get the job done”? I’m not convinced they do. Isn’t it possible that the electorate is enjoying this? The sourness and vindictiveness of the public mood at present seems unlikely to be much impressed by anything the Prime Minister could propose, let alone achieve. You might expect Tory voters to be rooting for the government to fail, but I suspect that swing-voters also take a certain grim enjoyment from kicking the government when it’s down. Voters can be a cruel, callous bunch.
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