Michael Gove: cuddling the Gord to death

Cover your ears people, Matty D'Ancona is having a Michael Gove related orgasm!

As I predicted yesterday, Michael Gove’s speech to the Bow Group this morning was a belter: as trenchant and subtle an analysis of Gordon Brown’s politics as any Tory politician has yet made.

Ahhhhhhh...and he's done. Right, so it appears it's Gove's presentation of the Gord as an old statist opposed to choice who is doomed to disappoint because he refuses to move with the times (trans: privatise everything that stands still long enough) that has been arousing Matty and the right-wing Bow Group. The policy of welcoming in non-Labourites to the "big tent" also received a widdling upon:

These recruits have been wooed on the basis that a relationship of mutual respect was being offered but in fact each new name was merely a notch on the bedpost - a one-night stand - intended to boost the seducer's status while leaving the other party feeling used.

Christ, careful Michael! You'll set off Matty again.