Sharpe's Opinion

Darling Takes Responsibility. Not.

Quoted in the Telegraph:

“The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop over the last 15 years or so where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

‘If there is a fault, it is our collective responsibility. All of us have to have the humility to accept that over the last few years, things got out of alignment.’

For ‘it is our collective responsibility’ you should read ‘please don’t blame me’. That would have been the honest thing to say. Of course, it’s more likely to be a barely veiled message to the Prime Minister.

David Jones