There was once a time, hard as it may be to believe now, that the New Labour movement wanted the character above to exit the stage leaving the way clear for Gordon Brown. The coup came in September 2006 and brought forward an exit strategy which saw the champion of New Labour, it’s Martin Johnson type figure deposed of power and the man who had craved the job for so long took office on a wave of public rapture, the media even joined in, despite the fact that Brown had refused any possibility of a real contest. It all went well, that is up until October of last year when Gordon’s minions underwent a campaign of briefing journalists, columnists and everyone else who mattered, the election was coming Gordon was going to the country for his mandate. Then in the course of a week, Gordon jetted off to Iraq in the middle of the Conservative Party Conference, everyone knew it was a political move and nobody liked it, George Osborne announced Conservative Party plans for inheritance tax and stamp duty and then D.C. made his pitch to Britain, it was done without notes and was he said “just him”. The polls began to move away from Labour for the first time since the summer when the new occupant of No.10 came in and then Gordon went on the Andy Marr show and said that he was not calling an election. THAT was the final nail in his coffin, Brown has been a walking dead man ever since, primarily because nobody believes him, but it is in fact worse than that, it is not only that nobody believes him it’s that he was meant to be the change, suddenly he is front and centre lying to the British people, the British people who he had told he had “listened to and learnt from”. This phrase has been popped out by the P.M. every time the Government or more specifically he has got into trouble. What has given the Labour movement an air of death however was not this, Labour as a party could have recovered, it has been the slow deteriation of the national economy and the advent of Northern Rock, the rocketing food and fuel prices and the Government’s insistence that it isn’t their fault. Of course it is not directly their fault, but the public now want to know why it is that Labour spent so much and saved less than nothing, spending Britain into a massive defieit which is now only getting bigger. The public are having the same issues as Government, they cannot meet their costs, they are having to borrow more and more money to do so. The issue is that where the Government can get loans, many ordinary people cannot. Government can theoretically raise cash through tax, not that this is particularly good idea, but when did that ever stop Labour?
People have for 11 years seen one man as being responsible for the economy, he bloated his image so impressively that it cannot now be shaken, nobody honestly believes that Alastair Darling is running the economy they still see Mr Brown’s hand on the tiller, to use a well worn and awful analogy. Now the assassins are circling Brown, can he survive as his predecessor did up until 2007? I highly doubt it, for several reasons, people disliked Blair for two reasons, he wouldn’t apologise for Iraq and they were bored of him. The Colgate kid had become the norm and they, as the public always do, wanted something new, they didn’t get it. What they got was more of the same, … no that’s wrong, Blair would I do not think have ever allowed things to get to this point, either he would have done something or said “goodbye” and handed it over to his mortal enemy, oh sorry yes that is what he did do. Brown has been with us for 11 years, many trusted him, somewhat foolishly after raiding the pension funds, introducing tax after tax, borrowing more and more and still selling “prudence”, he is old and his ideas are old, he cannot relaunch because he has nothing to relaunch. So, what now?
Well this man (above) for some reason unbeknownst to me wants his job, he all but said so yesterday on Radio 2, I know I heard him. The question is though, WHY? Is he stark raving mad or does he think he actually has a snowball in hell’s chance of turning this thing around. Surely the best he could do would be to stop the Conservatives from completely demolishing Labour, giving him a chance at 2014/15. I’m not sure he could even do this to be honest, by going on a cutting out expedition against Brown and his allies he would aleinate a good proportion of the Parliamentary Labour Party and the Constituency Labour Party, even those who don’t like Brown so much, such as Bob Marshall Andrews wouldn’t wear it. Milibands venture could, if successful (in one degree of the word) cause a complete split in a national party, the likes of which we haven’t seen since probably Joe Chamberlain left the Liberals over 100 years ago. Doubtless the media wil build the whole thing up, because there is nothing more than the media like than a political civil war, they revelled in mid 1990′s Tory rebellions and attempted coup’s, whether the British people with wear it is another matter, this entire episode, whether successful or not could see a total national break from Labour and the destruction of them at the hands of not only the Tories next time round, but also the LibDems, and I will say this much, I would much rather have Labour as our main opposition than that set of bastards.
