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The problem with all the media froth surrounding David Milliband’s possible throwing of his hat into the ring to start a Leadership contest is total crap. The reality is that Brown will be the last man standing as the ship goes down in 2010. If Milliband is actually trying to launch a Leadership challenge to Brown at this time, all he is demonstrating is that he is nuts and unfit for High Office.

But if he was going to and had any guts at all, he would have put his cards on the table and said outright; “I want to launch a Leadership challenge”. No, being a total wimp he has to speak in code through the side of his mouth, that is no Leader and clearly not a decent No.2 either, he’s a snake and all the other “girlish toads” twittering in the background like his brother, Alexander, Purnell , Burnham, Johnson, Clarke, Blunket, Harmon and the like, can take a hike, none of them have got the bottle or the sense God gave them either.

A Nautical Metaphor

The Labour Party can be summed up in the metaphor of a ship that has launched all its lifeboats so there is no escape for the crew, either Captain Brown brings it safe into harbour or, he hits the rocks. The best the “crew” can do is sing the hymn “For those in peril on the Sea” because they too are responsible for where they are today.

They were too cowardly a year back to challenge for the “Captaincy” and a change of course so if today the winds and tides have taken them into troubled waters, tough titty, the sails are shredded, the rudder is shot and there is a big hole in the hull – bye, bye Master Bates and the rest of the crew because at this late stage, changing course isn’t an option suckers !

Current Reality

The public are aware of the effects of external pressures that impact the UK economy and don’t blame Brown or the Labour Party for increasing fuel and food prices and yes they do know that is outside of the Government’s ability to control them anyway. Quite rightly because they know that the tax take on fuel is automatic as petrol rises in price, they reasonably expect that planned increases in tax upon it can be delayed.

The key problem though and the Elephant sitting in the corner of the room, is the lack of honesty by this Government and the Tory’s comment about “Fixing the Roof whilst the Sun shone” has not been answered at all. Brown and Blair boasting about the former being “The Iron Chancellor”, “Prudence” and having banished “Boom & Bust” forever now ring very hollow indeed. If this man and Party were so good, why didn’t they see this coming ? Why were no preparations made for it ?

One may call the electorate “shallow” but the simple truth is the food you ate last month and however good, is just a memory on the day there is no food.

They Will Lose the Next Election

It is a hard fact of life that any party that has been in power for more than 2 Parliaments, will have painted itself into a corner and whoever was the Leader could not disassociate themselves from past decisions and actions by a Government they were part of.

Brown could not say that whatever happened in the “Blair Years” had nothing to do with him, he couldn’t even radically change policies on anything and neither could Milliband if he became Leader, plus he signed the EU Constitution in Lisbon, he can’t escape that or the reasons that the public weren’t given the Referendum they were promised. His personal arrogance over the issue has tarred him personally so frankly, he is not even a viable candidate to lead Labour into the wilderness. Come a morning in early June 2010, there will have to be and will be a new Leader of the Labour Party to start the long and painful process of rebuilding but David Milliband is unlikely to be in contention, he may not even still be an MP.

The banal ramblings of Brown and his Cabinet colleagues about “Getting on with the job…” is nothing short of totally surreal but illustrates their whole problem which wouldn’t be solved by changing their Leader. What can they say ?

“Sorry, we got it totally wrong, we didn’t see it coming and we didn’t prepare for it.”

What it all boils down to is that like a spouse that has had an affair and been found out, whatever happens next, trust in the Labour Party has gone forever or, as the Tories found out after the ERM fiasco, for a very long time. With the Major Government, they had their chance, failed and then indulged in “in-fighting” until thrown out at the next election; the same will apply to Labour, whichever dumb arse leads it to the electoral slaughter.