Gordon Brown IS the PackageMaster
It apppears our Great Leader and his band of minions apostles have a very strange fetish - for packages.
It’s quite obvious to anyone who’s had at least one eye on political happennings for the last year or so. No act of the government is announced on its own any more - they are all part of packages. The alleged cut in VAT that may be announced in the pre-budget report? That’ll be part of a broad package of measures. When something bad happens, the typecast ‘annoying spokeswoman with strange accent and oddly-timed words’ will always be trundled out to tell journalists that they are ‘working with the community to put together an appropriate package so that we can invest in community services’ (i.e. they’re getting some old, fat, obscenely rich people together in a council chamber and making a quick, drunk decision before they go back out on the pull).
Of course, the Dear Leader may be the one orchestrating this package-fest, with his ministers obsequiously doing up the strapping and slapping on the FRAGILE label. Maybe Gordon subscribes to Packaging Digest, and reads it after a bad session of Prime Minister’s Questions.
Or maybe, just maybe… he’s scared of unilateral approaches, because even though they may work in practice, they look bad politically.
