Irresolute Gordon Brown

"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is losing his support and is once more coming under fire, this time in the dispute over a referendum on Scottish independence," Brane Kasteli writes, sketching the dilemma facing Brown. "The impression he makes as head of government is that of one who no longer holds the reigns of power, or worse. His indecision and lack of authority have him hurtling from one crisis to the next. ... Now yet another dispute has broken out over the referendum called by Wendy Alexander, head of the Scottish Labour Party, on Scottish independence." Kasteli comments that Brown, himself Scottish, "astonished everyone by not saying in parliament whether he would support a referendum or not. ... If he had spoken out in favour, he would have weakened the cohesion of the Union. ... If he had spoken out against it, he would have had to remove Wendy Alexander from office, which would have started the next party crisis."

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