Betrayal

Oh dear. Even Jackie Ashley of The Guardian, and longtime cheerleader for Mr Brown, is deserting the camp:

It's all the rage these days to suggest Gordon Brown look to the United States for inspiration, to see if he can summon up some Obama-style vision and charisma. Apart from the obvious difficulties (looks, personality, political culture, etc) Brown could do a lot worse than take a look in his own backyard – Scotland. For increasingly, Scotland is beginning to look like the progressive country that we hoped New Labour would produce.

It may appear so from the metropolitan fastness, but I cannot say that Scotland feels like a progressive country. But I'm just an old curmudgeon ...