Gordon Brown and the Misadventure of the Gurkhas

The Moai sent me an e-mail yesterday, suggesting a Vote Lumley campaign. After all, she has been a pretty outstanding campaigner for the Gurkhas. However to me, her success is as much a testament to the failures of Brown et al as it is to the political skills of Lumley, leaving my stone-headed friend to comment:

Brown played the Gurkhas issue soooo badly. The govt could have gracefully backed down and thereby been able to look benevolent and magnanimous, with lots of photo-ops of kindly old GB with his arm around a grinning Nepali pensioner with a chest full of medals, won by pulling Argies heads off bare-handed. Instead, she made them look like mean, slimy penpushers, persecuting British soldiers while wannabe terrorists stream through Heathrow arrivals. So, so badly played. I mean, we're dealing with the one group of immigrants that The Sun actually say nice things about.

Quite. For all Lumley's success in this sphere, the whole disaster could have been prevented if the Prime Minister had even basic political judgment. Further evidence - not that it was needed - that we have a total fucktard in Number 10.