Ed’s one-time guru Maurice Glasman has some choice words about what things were like under the Prime Mentalist:
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“In the end, where there’s no movement, where there’s only outcomes, where it’s all completely administrative: spending money is all you can do. That’s the whole story of what happened to Gordon Brown who was just sitting there allocating or not allocating resources to people. There was no devolution of power, no politics in that. It was an entirely Brezhnevite kind of administrative system.”
The two Eds must have had a great time. From Mr Bean to Brezhnev…