Who is No 1?
Posted on February 23, 2007
Filed Under The Man Himself |
In the 1970s sci-fi spy thriller The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan tries to discover “who is Number 1″, the mysterious person who is keeping him in The Village. In a Kafka style ending, the last episode reveals that The Prisoner is himself Number 1.
Gordon Brown, trapped in the Westminster Village, is also infatuated with Number 1. Just as in the last episode of The Prisoner, we will soon discover that the real Number 1 has been Gordon Brown all along.
Current speculation is that a Brown government would do things differently and that Brown will destroy Blair’s “legacy” by halting Blair’s reforms. However, such an analysis ignores the influence and power Brown has held over the past 10 years.
- Brown has been the most influential Chancellor of the Exchequer. Often Blair does not even know what is in the budget.
- If you control the purse strings you control the policy.
- Brown has a dozen SpAds and support from institutions and organisations.
Brown is responsible for much of the political landscape of the past 10 years. By hook or by crook we will soon realise this too.
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