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Maybe its just me but the thing that has really winds me up is the things these Labour politicians say, they are on a totally different planet to you and I and likely a different time zone too.

Gordon Brown when the economy had hit the buffers at full pelt, to every question asked replied: “I’m doing what the British people want me to do and am getting on with the job.” Well apart from him getting on with the job just made matters worse, what British person did he approach that told him they wanted him to do that ?

Total Nuts

Most of us have been chanting a well known phrase that encompasses sex, travel and Gordon for the past two years. But to prove that whatever else it is, when you get a red despatch box, they suck your brains out and replace it with a speak your weight machine.

Ben Bradshaw, newly promoted to the cabinet in Friday’s reshuffle, apparently said “MPs should “get the message” from constituents to throw their support behind Mr Brown.” No the only complaints made were by displaced Labour Councillors who blamed the Labour MPs for their losses and they hardly count as ‘constituents’ one might conclude that they had vested interests.

The Gospel according to Ben Bradshaw therefore is as follows:

They lose all four Councils they previously controlled plus some 273 councillors and the message from the people who voted for any party other than Labour is: “Back Gordon Brown”

So presumably if, they had won 4 Councils and picked up 273 new Labour councillors the message would have been: “Sack Gordon Brown”.

What a load of twaddle.

A Challenge from Livejournal

I won’t print it out verbatim because it is not my copyright but a fellow reader of the Independent replied to my comments with some of their own. The person is likely an ardent Labour supporter and wrote very intelligently and devoid of the more usual insults.

Their basic thesis was that the people who were back stabbing Brown for the Labour Party were all the worse offenders in the expenses scandal along with the Tories. Therefore Brown was being clever because his strategy would leave him with front line people with clean hands able to bring any Tory attack to nought. He ended with:

“Read Matthew Parris and swoon if you will, but strategy wins the war.”

My Response

A very interesting view but forgive me saying so, a view of politics that is rather mechanical, this is not about who is or was the “worse expenses offender” the public were expressing their frustrations over a broad range of issues and doing so from the political left, right and centre but whilst their remedies vary there is one common thread and desire – CHANGE.

To talk about these times in terms of “Strategy”, “Losing the battle but winning the war” is to totally delude yourself to the fact that no one is in charge and no politician of any party can attempt to control these events, they are all emotionally driven and people are angry.

The Bird Pooh in the Ice Cream

The real reason that both Brown and Labour are doomed has nothing to do with expenses and everything to do with people’s fears for the future and the economy. Labour would be better placed today if Brown was still Chancellor and just about anybody else was Prime Minister. I couldn’t care a fig for Brown’s character flaws real or imagined, what ‘does for him’ was his foolish pride in puffing himself up as Chancellor – abolishing boom and bust comes to mind.

If he was still Chancellor, whoever was the Labour PM today could have sacked him by now and claimed a fresh start, no chance with this Albatross hung around your neck. He and no one else in the public’s mind has let them down, he is the economic Colossus that turned out to have feet of clay. He took the plaudits in the good times which were not down to his skills so, now whether his fault or not, he also takes the blame – it is called politics.

His biggest blunder was not to go to the Country in Autumn 2007, the Parliamentary Labour Party’s blunder, not to challenge him for the Leadership in 2007, now both will pay and you saw the ‘deposit’ in the Local Election results and no excuses about Shire Counties will cover it, Labour is toast.