Ahead of Wednesday's pre-budget report, Gordon Brown is giving us a few clues about Labour's platform for the general election. This morning he announced that the government would be able to save £3 billion a year by operating more efficiently. He also extended his "politics of envy" theme into his own backyard, condemning a "culture of excess" in the public sector and vowing to name and shame those earning salaries above £150,000.
I know Gordon isn't exactly a bag of laughs, but even he must find it difficult to make these points with a straight face, he being a man who has been in the most senior positions of government for better than a decade. I read somewhere recently that Alastair Campbell is back in the inner circle as the election approaches. If this is the best he can do, he's obviously lost it (whatever it was that he had in the first place).
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