British Leaders - They're Not What They Were

'Leadership, wrote the Chinese general Sun Tzu, is “a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage and discipline”. If so, the mind boggles at what he would make of British public life at the beginning of 2010.

Contemplating the grim prospect of Gordon Brown struggling to cling on to power, Labour ministers lining up to offer excuses at the Chilcot Inquiry, bankers refusing to accept responsibility for their mistakes and David Cameron approving those ludicrous airbrushed posters, it is hard to detect much intelligence, courage and discipline at the summit of our national institutions. And trustworthiness is not a word many of us would apply to the current House of Commons. '

For the full text of this fascinating article, see - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/7104500/British-leaders-theyre-not-what-they-were.html