Politisk makt utan principer, så funkar den

And on exactly what question of principle was Labour brought so low?

If you can’t answer that question, you are in good company. The main if not the sole “issue” appears to be the self-love and the self-pity of a prime minister—Gordon Brown—who has never won a general election or even a contested leadership election within his own party. He is in power only in order to be in power. He is in power only because he believes he has long had a natural right to be prime minister. For many years he waited as a resentful dauphin, swallowing his envy and bile. And then, like the fruit of the medlar tree, he went rotten before he was ripe.

Politiker utan ideologiska principer har efterlysts på sina håll, politik är ju bara ett hantverk och en fråga om erfarenhet har det hetat. Christopher Hitchens skriver fantastiskt i Vanity Fair om Gordon Brown, vilket samtidigt illustrerar hur den tanken funkar i praktiken.