Power Brownout?

No knowledgeable person, surely, would argue that Charles Clarke's description of Gordon Brown as, amongst other things, a "deluded power freak" is in any way an exaggeration. The grapevine has it that many of the current members of the government's cabinet concur with such a judgement. Those of us, mere powerless and ignored citizens, who have been saying the same sort of thing about several of that awful clique for many years past, will be pleased to see these observed truths being admitted by those fellow-conspirators at last.

It comes as some pleasure to reflect that many of them will be out of power in short order. The matter to regret is that the mob that replaces them, again without our being consulted, will probably be just as bad, there is no obvious alternative of merit standing by in the wings.

What occurs to me is I doubt the revelation by Clarke has suddenly burst upon him, he knew first hand that his diatribe was merited ages ago. That being so, why did he - indeed, why did the lot of them - fail to act honourably and expose him to public ridicule when they first realised it?