A Labour-supporting friend of mine, who should know about these things, emails with a serious question: “Do you think that GB having to withdraw the YouTube doctrine on expenses is the biggest humiliation in Downing Street communications since the Women’s Institute? I can’t think of an equal.” Well, I can. The botched election and the Damian McBride affair, to name but two – but that bizarre YouTube dance, admittedly, is a close third.
As my friend continues, “I used to think the Brownites were all tactics and no strategy but that’s unfair. They are **** at tactics too. Amateurs. The budget is the worst I have seen since Howe in 1980.”
Seriously, much damage has been done by that YouTube dance he performed. As Quentin Letts says of his eyebrows: “They could have been attached to a fly fisherman’s line, so spectacularly did they jump.” To look at that video now is to see a government in meltdown.
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