LENE ESPERSEN (3)

Last summer, I said that Lene Espersen, Denmark's Foreign Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in the coalition government, was making a mess of things.

This evening, after an ever worsening string of opinion polls, she resigned as party leader. She intends to try to stay on as Foreign Minister; it will be interesting to see if she can.

I would like to be able to say that she resigned because of my blog. But that would not be true. The fact of the matter is that she messed up on her own, she didn't need any help from me.

Walter Blotscher