New Year, old sabre-rattling. Gordon Brown and David Cameron are parading their leadership credentials, with a view to capturing an entire nation – the UK, that is.
David Cameron made a speech (transcript here) in Oxfordshire today saying that the country needs a change of direction and a new leadership:
“We can’t go on in these difficult times with a weak prime minister and a divided government.”
You can almost hear the Tory munitions factory roar as they forge this, strengthen that and defeat the other.
And here’s Gordon Brown on New Year’s Eve:
“The Detroit plot thankfully failed. But it has been a wake-up call for the ongoing battles we must wage not just for security against terror but for the hearts and minds of a generation.”
It’s a common political (and journalistic, and marketing) technique to play to people’s fears, but what next in the Prime Ministerial arms race – Brown and Cameron appearing on the decks of rival aircraft carriers, squeezed into military uniform à la George Bush?
Neither leader, for all their fighting talk, seems to have heard of liberty.
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