Surely it's a no brainer.
++GANDALF
He gets out of the tasks by saying that he can only "guide" since some "higher authority" prevents him from direct participation. When things need doing, he disappears for hours on end on some unspecified "business" and then appears again all of a sudden without explanation. He is irritable, even more so now that the pipeweed has run out. And he can also be a bit of a bully, picking on Pippin and Denethor in particular.
What's more, if we vote him off now maybe he will return as Gandalf the White Survivor and be a bit more darn useful around the camp.
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Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!
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