Engagements
Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister
House of Commons debates, 24 October 2007, 11:30 am
Gordon Brown (Prime Minister; Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, Labour)
They were agreed after a long process of consultation involving all the parties. I have just quoted the Scottish Conservative leader saying that he supported the single ballot paper, and let me quote Mr. Gould again. He says:
"I don't think I would absolve any party"
and
"'Party self-interest' in this context is not necessarily related to one party."
This was not a failure of one party or one institution; it was to do with decisions that we should have made together and with decisions that we have now made to change the system.
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Jason Graham
Posted on 7 Nov 2007 9:34 pm (Report this annotation)
Lack of rhetorical skill is perceived as lack of truth. There is no difference between these and the battles between Blair and Cameron, except that Blair was to Cameron what Cameron is to Brown in terms of innate rhetorical sense. As soon as Brown was announced as successor, we all saw these thrashings coming. Compare the brutal defeats of John Kerry debating against a simple-minded but rhetorical George Bush...