Who's Brown talking about?

This article is a report of Gordon Brown's annual Mansion House address. In it he said:

"The all too easy, but fundamentally wrong, temptation for political parties is to cling to the past or to sidestep difficult long-term choices,"

Given Cameron's wannabe progressive noises and Ming's recent shifting about on tax and so forth, who's clinging to the past? We must surely assume that he's talking about Labour here.

"Britain will need a stronger sense of national purpose, clear long-term national direction and a sense of our destiny that will enable us to move beyond the old short-termism that held us back in the past,"

Nearly a decade into Tony's authoritarian reign and there's not yet a strong sense of national purpose, no clear national direction and we haven't moved beyond short-termism? Accepting for a moment that we actually want all three of these things, who's fault is that they haven't materialised?

"Britain will have to become a more flexible economy - more ready to change, with more local and regional pay flexibility, better equipped for the long term, with more focus on the jobs and skills of the future,"

Again, nearly ten years in and the economy isn't ready for the future? Who was supposed to be sorting the economy Gordon?