Gordon Brown - Double Standards/Principles

So Gordon Brown does not agree with the views of his lackey, Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer as he has twigged one important fact which Donaldson obviously hadn't considered.

Rather than admit that on this question of pricing he has no power to act, it falling within a competence of the European Union, he comes out with:

"We don't want the responsible, sensible majority of moderate drinkers to have to pay more or suffer as a result of the excesses of a minority."

So Gordon Brown's principles apply to one subject yet not to another? If this was not the case then he would not have allowed the majority - the people of this country - to suffer as a result of the minority - the Labour Party and Europhile MPs -and granted the electorate a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

In the spirit of fairness it should of course be made clear that we are talking about a politician's principles here and a politician's 'principles' do not comply with the normal and generally accepted definition of the word!