Sharpe's Opinion

Brown’s regime becoming more and more Nixonian

John Ward on Lib Dem Voice draws an interesting – and certainly unflattering – comparison between Brown and Nixon. After examining the parallels between ‘Greengate’ (awful term) and the Watergate scandal, he makes this point:

Last Friday, a small piece on page two of the Financial Times pointed up the increasing Conservative frustration with Gordon Brown’s persistent deferral of a promise to brief the Opposition prior to any election. The pledge (allegedly made nine months ago) said that the process in relation to some of the key fiscal and economic factors would begin on January 4th 2009. There is no sign at all of this happening, and this in turn suggests two obvious hypotheses: one, there is yet more smelly stuff the Government doesn’t want the Opposition to know; and two, Gordon plans a snap election during which most of the damning facts are unavailable to both electorate and Opposition.

If he’s right, the awfully scary prospect is Labour winning a fourth term and any ‘smelly stuff’ remaining under wraps for the next five years.