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For some reason best known to themselves, the Daily Telegraph has an “Observer newspaper” and very left wing contributor called Mary Riddell writing for them. Now whilst I think opening up to a broader audience must be a very good idea for any media business in these days but, she seems an odd choice however and in fairness, judge for yourself: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-OAVw8IYZDA.

I tend to find her articles rather odd in a way that is difficult to quite put your finger on but generally amounts to “totally missing the point” and today was no different. Her DT article was headlined; “Prime Minister Gordon Brown, don’t let their style beat your substance.” The content was a total hoot in that she like the Labour Party itself, really haven’t managed to connect any of the dots yet !

In Total Denial

Her basic conclusion is that Brown should play to his strengths and here I quote “…he should focus on the politics of the personal. In the dim old days when people actually liked him, they did so because of his glamour deficit.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/25/do2508.xml

What a load of total old codswallop… I write this not because I hate either Gordon Brown or Mary Riddell but her’s is a statement of intellectual and political nonsense because there never was a time when “people” by which I assume she means us the electorate, “actually liked him” frankly, we never knew who he was you daft moo. For 10 years he was a brooding, uncommunicative person overshadowed by the personality of Blair and he never tried to get out of that situation or to develop a seperate and identifiable, “Gordon persona”.

So in a purely personal sense, we the people have never ever had an idea who Gordon Brown the person is, to us and taking him at his boastful words from the Despatch Box in the House of Commons, he was “Prudence”, the “Economic Cycle”, the “Iron Chancellor”, the “Clunking Fist”, the man who had consigned “Boom & Bust” to history because he was such a “Great Man”. Okay Gordon, we believe you and clearly when that “Snake Oil Salesman” Blair went, we were with you because you were the real “power” behind New Labour and would now deliver even more… to us.

Hubris

This weekend the Labour Party has huddled together to declare that there is only one Leader for the next General Election, Gordon Brown and I hope for the Labour Party’s sake that this is the prelude to a good “political assassination” by the “men in grey suits” because if not, political wipe-out and the wilderness will follow in May 2010.

An Aside: The Labour Party’s “Men in Grey Suits” would include Hoon and Straw … shit what a bust, is that the best you can do, I’m sure Ant & Dec would be available !

Where Mary Riddell like those who believe in hanging onto “Nanny Brown” are so deluded is that in 10 years, Brown allowed himself to become “Sugar Daddy Brown” and looked at in this context, you can see that his game is over because today and most likely tomorrow, he just can’t deliver the same diamonds and pearls as in the previous 10 years.

“Hey Honey, we had a good time then, memories to cherish for a cold winter’s night but… that was then and a girl has to get by today and tomorrow, you have no more money so, good-bye !”

Wrong Drama

I and many others looking at Gordon Brown over these past 12 months have seen shades of Macbeth and a truly Shakespearian Tragedy unfolding but I now feel that we were all wrong, for this is Bizet and Carmen.

The besotted soldier who abandoned his childhood sweetheart (the Labour Party) for the giddy passion of Carmen (PM, No.10), has found that she (the electorate), has run off with a flashy Matador (Cameron). True, he may not in the end be ‘that much better’ but for now, he has the excitement and the potential whereas ‘Gordon’ has played all his cards already and in comparison looks both bust & spent for a certainty…

And if Gordon thinks “Carmen” (the electorate), ungrateful, tough shit you can’t kill them all, you had your chance, you had your moment, you are now like the Blair you so depended upon, political history, accept it personally and if you care about the Labour Party, also get them to accept it too. You cannot win any election but you personally can salvage the Labour Party and get it back on track by ‘sacrificing yourself with dignity’ through stepping down early.

“The King is Dead, Long Live the King…” the possibility of succession and a new start, is secure.

By inclination and nature, I am a Tory and want an end to this most disgraceful Government and Parliament. It would suit me best to see Brown cling on to the last moment so there is a Tory landslide but, whether Labour or Tory, I don’t want to live in a “one-party” State, we saw how awful that was under Blair. We have endured a decade of “bullying muddle class” legislation which has inevitably seen an upsurge in violence by a burgeoning “under-class” and the two events are intimately connected.

This is a fading and dying Government but for rather more reasons I suspect, than the old Right/Left one’s but a new dawn is possible, a new awakening. If ever there was a moment for a “One Nation Government” that does not hector but heals, now is the time and it can never be a Labour one made up of the existing people. As with the Tories, Labour needs its time in the wilderness, a time to think, heal old wounds and disputes plus a time to “discover a new voice”.