Has Compass given up on Gordon Brown?
2:01 pm - February 12th 2008
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Not long after he came to power, Compass held an event at the Commons, saying in essence that Gordon Brown was going to take the country into the promised land of building a better social democracy than the “false dawn” offered by Tony Blair. I wasn’t that optimistic myself but it was worth hoping.
But now it looks like Neal Lawson has soured on Gordon Brown’s faltering project. He says on on Comment is Free today: “We lost a battle in the 1980s with Thatcherism and the creed that said you can’t buck the market. But the party leadership conceded the whole war and surrendered the intellectual and organisational armoury to determine where business interest should and should not go. The multinational chairman’s group know they are fighting for their interests and their people. Labour now needs to do the same in the name of the rest of us.”
He doesn’t mention Brown by name but Digby Jones’ appointment is rued. Does this mean the honeymoon period is over?
[In other news, the Fabians are pushing Brown to start an inquiry over Iraq.]
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Sunny Hundal is editor of LC. Also: on Twitter, at Pickled Politics and Guardian CIF.
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