If you’re wondering what the blogpost title is all about, let me direct your attention to this story in the UK Guardian, which examines a passage in a new book that details a colossal fit of bad temper by Great Britain’s incumbent prime minister.

I especially like this passage:

The book says Brown demanded: “Who do you think is better than me? Do you think there is anyone who is better than me?” John Reid was “far too rightwing”. Alan Johnson was “a lightweight”. David ­Miliband was much too young. Was Blair saying, Brown demanded, that any of them was better qualified to become prime minister?

This face-off came to an end without a resolution. Talking about it afterwards to close allies, Blair described this confrontation with Brown as “ghastly” and “terrible” and told them: “He [Brown] kept shouting at me that I’d ruined his life.”

I dunno — there’s something a bit . . . adolescent about that scene. Almost as if he was expecting to go to a high-school prom on his own term, but then got told he needed a haircut.

Now . . . can you imaging any of our leaders throwing a tantrum like that? Harper the control freak strikes me more like the Donald Pleasance version of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, complete with cat. Iffy may have been in circumstances similar to Brown, but we’ve yet to see him crack so spectacularly. Jack’s pretty much a bit of a reasoner, and Gilles’ supporters are more likely to fly off it than he.

But perhaps you have a different opinion:

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