That apology

DC's stunt of offering an apology where GB has refused, sticks in the throat somewhat. It's all very well to apologise in retrospect for signing up to a "cosy economic consensus" but the reality is that he's been steering the Party to the centre, following consensus politics deliberately in order to benefit from the adage that "governments lose elections, opposition parties do not win them" and also the priniciple that if there's no real difference between the parties, the voters will go by personality, a competition which DC thinks he wins hands down. He should have sacked GO months ago and, at the very least, demanded a debate in the House about the merits of nationalising Northern Rock. Consensus politics is basically intellectual apathy.