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In a sense, I’m now totally bored with the “Gordon Brown’s Leadership Under Threat…” scenario because I don’t really believe it because they have no one to replace him, if they did an election would have to be called and the Labour Party is broke anyway and can’t afford to fight a General Election.

What is quite funny though are the journalists trying to flog some life into a dead donkey of a story. First on Sunday there was Mary Riddell a left wing liberal who might be an acquaintance of Brown writing about Gordon ‘sticking to his guns’ and then on Monday Janet Daley who is a rather boring right wing writer, going on about, “The Tories had better watch out…” I thought the full moon had passed !

Janet Daley

I have written about Mary Riddell before and frankly as an apologist for Gordon Brown, she doesn’t really change and will always tie herself into knots doing so, Janet Daley is a slightly different kettle of fish but her main problem is that she has become part of the scene, the “Westminster Bubble” and it shows all too clearly.

Her piece was about her being invited to a discussion run by the people behind Blair outlining a possible strategy of replacing Brown with David Milliband with Purnell bought in as Chancellor and pushing a “hard right reform agenda”. My reaction which I sent to the Telegraph was as follows:

“I must confess that I am not a Janet Daley fan, she rarely writes or presents a logical case for anything and most part this is because like so many journalists she lives inside and is part of the “Westminster Bubble”. That this is a fact she describes beautifully in the following:

“This was a classic Blairite media operation: approach a select group of journalists whom you know to have a particular interest in certain questions, and invite them to engage in a free-ranging conversation …..And that, reader, is the warning that the Tories need to take away on holiday.”

I would call her a daft cow but that would be an insult to cows who are very useful. Note the “a select group” bit, that is her ego being polished. To anyone with half a brain this was a obvious ploy to set the news agenda by Labour during the silly season to deflect media attention from “Gordon plots” and try to unsettle the Tories. The so called select group were just the “usual suspects” from the media who can be relied upon to be easily manipulated and guaranteed to spread “doom & gloom” messages for the Tories, was Simon Heffer invited ?

The simple facts are that Labour are totally buggered because the scenario she paints can be undone just by pointing out they have been in power 11 years and there is nothing left in the piggy bank just a mountain of Government debt.

As for Miliband and Purnell as potential “new Leaders”, you have to be having a laugh. Miliband is that evil little toad who sold us all into EU slavery without explanation and Purnell, has to get the Tories to write up policy documents for him. If you doubt me, refer to Prescott’s comments which are bang on right, there is no successor to Brown waiting in the wings – the cupboard is totally bare and if they start fighting over the Leadership, the public will just laugh at them.”

What a Strange World these People Live In

We had Harriet Harmon prattling on about Gordon Brown being the right man for the job, that woman is only slightly less bonkers than Hazel Blears who is totally nuts.

They say that it is not the fault of Gordon but wholly down to the Global economy and to be fair that is certainly true of external events but it is not true of internal ones, Brown didn’t see it coming and didn’t have a contingency plan either. The problem is that you cannot accept all the accolades in the good times and declare that you have put an end to boom and bust and expect to just walk away when it goes pear shaped. It was Brown who over taxed, overspent and failed to curb bank lending and in this context because the electorate gave him the job to do, he is to blame. If “external events” are the spark that lights the fuse, it was Gordon Brown who assembled the bomb that will now go off in his face and ours too.

The problem for the Labour Party and Gordon Brown is that no one is listening to them any longer or to a word they say. “Gordon is the right man for the Job…” The public thinks; “No he isn’t, look at this mess he’s given us, as Chancellor he was obviously rubbish and as a Prime Minister a total joke !” And that is obviously the view even in the Labour heartlands such as Glasgow East who probably felt betrayed by him in a rather personal way.

And in the face of this all this idiot Brown can come out with is “I understand…I’m getting on with the job which is what the electorate want me to do.” Which electorate is that then ? The Iranians ? It certainly wasn’t the Scots of Glasgow East, or the Welsh and the English definitely want you gone…

But Look on the Bright Side…

If Blair were still PM because love him or loath him, he was a ‘politician’ which Brown is not, he would accept that Labour would lose the next election and find a way of funding it. He would target minimising the losses to Labour by most likely passing the ball to the Tories and calling an election as soon as possible so that the Tories pick up as much blame in a still unfolding bad news story, he wouldn’t wait until 2010.

Fortunately we have got “Gordon, Harmon, Blears, Straw and all the usual morons talking about “We understand and are getting on with the job…”

I thought the most surreal moment the other day was Brown at Warwick saying that not only had Labour got the right policies but there would be time to convince the electorate before the next election – this chap clearly doesn’t get out much or he forgot to take his medication. The other point that strikes me is that by the time the Party Conference season is over and Parliament reassembles, there will only be about 18 months left for this shower ! People keep talking about “2 More Years” but they are wrong, the electoral clock is winding down to Labour being counted out.