how could the EU possibly break through with a positive message, if they had one?

relax, mig, you're doing it right now...

building new and better content, clearer arguments, deeper understanding, and we're just one grain of blog-sand at ET.

MULTIPLY, add more, scale up, work harder, and relax more, time is so on our side in all this.

did brown jump or was he pushed?

still leader-itis, still a sideshow...

yookay, first there's whizzy conman blair revered then reviled, as the cons became more obvious.

now the old myth of sturdy, dependable, no-nonsense, rational, scottish (thrifty) banker wif a keir hardie soul was exalted, basted a few months of projection, and now burned in effigy toasted till done.

which skillset will be next hauled over the coals?

what ideology other than sheer machievelli-ism or boring death-by-dull incompetence is the public willing to have its next fling with?

ah yes, cameron... back to 'the upper class knows best' 19th century thinking, retooled for the analogue age.

wasn't it you TBG, warning us about chubby cheeked babyfaces?

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty