Too late now

Gordon Brown’s speech in the House of Commons yesterday started well:

It is a bit like the old days for me, with the Government on the run, the Opposition in pursuit and a headline in The Sun saying, “Brown wrong”, another example of my very close relationship with News International.

And ended badly:

I have set out the record of my desire to have a judicial inquiry. It was opposed by the police, opposed by the Home Office and opposed by the civil service, and it was not supported by the Select Committee of the day.

We know all the good reasons why his advisers and the civil service might have advised against it. But they advise and he decided. It is no use now complaining about his own decision.

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  It wasn’t a clean landing for GB, and now he’s answering to another mess. Shame.

• saratpattanayak

  I am eagerly waiting to see on Thursday the father-son duo and their stunt double Rebekah Brooks run the gauntlet of television cameras and reporters which they themselves had unleashed on the hapless victims of the public. A remorseless public arraignment may, to some extent, assuage the shocked public feeling over the evil empire they jointly commandeer. They should be pinned down for any deceitful and evasive response they are so adept in dishing out. The malign teeth of the deadly vipers should be drawn out. An unconditional public apology for their hideously criminal misconduct with a copper-bottomed guarantee for good behavior in future is the least the parliamentary committee should demand from them.           
   

• markwri86

  Hmmmmmm. Slagged off GB….tick. No slagging off of Ed Milliband….unusual….No paean of praise for Lord Snooty Cameron…..a huge mistake, which I am sure is soon to be rectified John…….John?…..RU there, John?

• MissCiaranaRehill

  Invent half a dozen idiotic sounding Disqus account names and then spending his time speaking to himself on blog sites whilst claiming Job Seekers allowance, but not seeking paid work. Simples really, but at the age of fifty-one incredibly sad!