The
Prime Minister is supposed to lead the nation.
Unfortunately, it would seem he
at times needs somebody else to lead him....in the right direction.
Noneother than the Queen herself has unwittingly revealed to a TV
audience of millions that the British PM Gordon Brown became lost in
the corridors of Windsor Castle.
A
TV crew filming last night's state banquet in honour of President and
Mrs Sarkozy picked up the Queen saying to her daughter, Princess Anne: "The prime minister got lost. He disappeared the wrong way....at the crucial
moment".
Thankfully for him, the PM did finally make an appearance, although viewers
watching last night’s ceremony may not have been too surprised that Brown was
apparently in the black.
Such was the low level of lighting that it was only thanks to the flashing
camera bulbs that the identities of the royal party could be seen as the Queen
led her family and other senior dignitaries into the state banquet.
Not surprisingly, Downing Street officials have been quick to deny that the PM
was ever in danger of missing the banquet.
An aide to the Labour leader who took over office from Tony Blair last summer said the
PM was just “doing what he was told".
Perhaps the former Chancellor who earned himself the nickname of
'Prudence' due to his tight hold on the nation's purse strings should
sign off on Palace please for more money to be spent on the upkeep of
the official royal palaces, otherwise he may find he's not the only one
left in the dark.
Comment: I would like to add to Emilly's post. Good Orderly Direction usually requires a map for mere mortals. Once a person has all the data and the goal in mind, and is still chartering unknown territory, a flow chart, or map really helps, to stay on course. At least he wasn't leading the dinner party...
Name: Emily Elizabeth Windsor-Cragg
Comment: The whole concept of Leadership appears to be lost in the shuffle of bureaucratic processes and procedures. What a shame.
This is the same sort of criticism leveled at the Archbishop -- that he deals with data, information and procedure, but he's got no concept where to go with it except what he's told by those "behind the curtain."
