Gordon Brown jettisons the past

Alas for the PM, in this speech he was arguing with himself as much as with David Cameron. "Elections are not verdicts on the past," he declared yesterday, "they are choices for the future." Yet as a strategist in the 2001 and 2005 elections he argued – to the chagrin of many Blairites – precisely the opposite: in those contests, Gordon believed that Labour should simply carpet-bomb the Tories off the battlefield with statistics and evidence of its past success. This time round, of course, he doesn't have such weapons to hand, and wants, faute de mieux, to pit one blueprint for the future (his own) against another (nasty, mean Mr Cameron's).

via www.telegraph.co.uk

I guess Kristina Keneally will adopt this strategy too - probably with a similar lack of success.