This sums it up pretty well

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Presented with an easy tap-in, George Osborne managed to miss. He spoke
with relish about "the slow, lingering death of Northern Rock and of Britain's
reputation as a fi nancial centre ...

"The prime minister and chancellor have dithered their way to disaster. He
will never recover his reputation for competence; he is now politically a dead
man walking."

It wasn't bad; it just sounded slightly hysterical. And of course the Tories
don't have a policy of their own — or rather, they have several contradictory
policies of their own.

So Mr Darling was able to accuse him of "cynical opportunism", which is what
ministers always say when they make a dreadful mistake and the opposition
points it out.

Posted By: Old Git, Feb 19, 10:35:59