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So Gordon Brown has “won the vote” on 42 days by 9 UDP votes he had to “buy”, not by his +60 overall majority, what an embarrassment, what a total loss of his authority as Leader of the Labour Party, how will this play come the Conference Season ?

How silly and self obsessed can any man be that will accept such a “Pyrrhic Victory” but then once he had lost sight of the objective which was to maintain dignity and authority, I guess just about any “win” would do even if it meant relying on Beelzebub himself .

What a Muppet

The cost of all of this is yet to be fully assessed but it is a price that Brown just won’t want to pay but pay, he most assuredly will as sooner rather than later, he is dragged screaming from the Labour Leader’s podium. If any one thing was to demonstrate yet again I’m afraid to say, just why Brown is unfit to be Prime Minister, it is this whole sorry tale.

There was never a need for this measure and even Blair had the commonsense to back off over the 90 day requirement with his dignity intact but Brown wouldn’t back off over this latest form of ‘Internment’, I know he has only got one eye but I didn’t realise the poor sod is totally blind.

But then, this was never about 42 days, it was about Gordon Brown’s political survival and in this respect; it wasn’t worth the risk he took which has cost him his credibility in the job. To have won by just a handful of votes would have been fine providing that they were Labour votes, to win by 9 DUP votes is tragic because it indicates a substantial Labour rebellion.

Brown’s Political Survival

The most important things that will ensure his survival in the short term are the clear lack of alternative candidates for the job. One of the side effects of the on-going Blair/Brown feud for the first 10 years of Labour Governments was the stunted growth of future talent, the career development if you like of the ’97 fresh intake so that after a decade, there would be a fresh crop of “Party Big Beasts”, it never happened. If one looks back to the Blair years as the PM, it was also true then, just how many different Departments did John Reid have to “sort” ?

But apart from a lack of alternative talent , the other key thing that protected Brown was the thought “hope” within the Parliamentary Labour Party that perhaps things would moderate even if not turn around completely so that a fair number of Labour MPs would have a chance of keeping their seats. In addition, the Labour Party Constitution is so complex that Leadership change is difficult but, a Party Conference is a good point to start from.

Any more Bad News and Brown is a goner..

Unfortunately the bad news just doesn’t seem to stop. The May Council Elections, loosing London to Boris Johnson, Crewe & Nantwich, house prices falling steeply, unemployment on the rise, food and fuel prices. The EU questioning Britain’s Budget Deficits and just about everyone in the UK now knowing that as Chancellor, a lot of what Brown did has contributed to making things a lot worse today than they should have been if he had been better at his job then. There is a lot more shit to come so the next couple of months, Summer Recess or not, may well bring forth a Labour Leadership challenge in the autumn and if it does, Gordon Brown will lose because it will come down to dumping him in order to salvage the Labour Party as a significant force in Parliament following the 2010 General Election.