I think that both Brown and Cameron are trying not to win by a lot(because winning means you are the Bad Person who has to do the Nasty Stuff which will make Margaret Thatcher look like an indulgent granny, and you really want to blame the Lib Dems or whoever else's votes you need for the Bad Stuff).
E.g. 'yes, under my leadership for the past X years, the X really suffered. But that was because our allies were insisting that Y had to be protected, and if we'd been allowed to modernise it, we we would have got Y more cheaply, and X would have been fine'.
I feel slightly sorry for David Cameron: other parties have carefully fielded nondescript leaders, knowing full well that even if they are elected, it will be for a short time, in a period to be condemned in popular (i.e. wrong) histories: the wise heads are hanging back: there will be an election around 2014 which will seem them come to power. Poor David ... far better to be the candidate in 2014 than in 2010.
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Date: 2010-03-30 08:02 pm (UTC)E.g. 'yes, under my leadership for the past X years, the X really suffered. But that was because our allies were insisting that Y had to be protected, and if we'd been allowed to modernise it, we we would have got Y more cheaply, and X would have been fine'.
I feel slightly sorry for David Cameron: other parties have carefully fielded nondescript leaders, knowing full well that even if they are elected, it will be for a short time, in a period to be condemned in popular (i.e. wrong) histories: the wise heads are hanging back: there will be an election around 2014 which will seem them come to power. Poor David ... far better to be the candidate in 2014 than in 2010.