More on Brown

Writing yesterday's post in a hurry made me neglect the most obvious example of Brown's indecision. His fumbled handling of the election-that-never-was during the first months of his leadership was an acid test for what was to come and should have stirred a few more pots than it did. Coming to terms with your surroundings and facing your people at every turn should be a mainstay of modern democracy. As Captain MacWhirr says so memorably in Joseph Conrad's Typhoon, "Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through". The longer Brown stays in office and refuses to step down only acts to concretize the claim that he is indecisive. He is a doomed man, and the longer this continues, the worse he will look.