Hilarious !
January 6th, 2010 | 
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I’m always up for a laugh but was astounded with the joint call by the deplorable Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt both of whom are “standing down at the next election”, for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown as the Leader of the Labour Party – to clear the air ! One wonders who is pulling their strings on this one, Harmon, Darling ?
What a hoot ! If anybody has the slightest doubt about the result of the next election in that Gordon Brown and Labour will be thrown out of Office and David Cameron will be the next Prime Minister with a good working majority, there goes the proof. It might have been a good idea a year ago but now, it can only be described as a death wish, perhaps they should “re-brand” as the Lemming Party.
Why ?
Whilst I would be delighted to see the Labour Party finally disintegrate in public, I just find this a totally odd thing for Hoon and Hewitt to have done. Given the total lack of courage shown by all the supposed “Alternative Labour Leaders” in getting rid of Gordon Brown over the past two years, why even bother ? These creatures have been content to mumble and mutter “off the record” to their favourite media people but lacked the spine to stand up and be counted. The only man to have the guts was James Purnell but the sound of silence from the rest was deafening when he did.
Sure, Gordon Brown is one of the greatest electoral assets that David Cameron possesses which was obvious back in the Autumn of 2007 when Cameron scared Brown off from calling a General Election, yes Brown is a total loser but the fact that he is still the Leader of the Labour Party merely shows just how bad the whole Party has become, corrupted by 13 years in power.
And Then What…
The obvious problem as I have written numerous times before, is that the Labour Party has no credible alternatives which would be acceptable to both the party itself and the public at large. The Blair/Brown feud over the Leadership just ran far too long and in doing so stunted the political careers of a whole generation of MPs.
So, if they have this secret ballot (unlikely), and the majority vote for a change of Leader, what then and who ?
One of the key problems is that the whole of the Parliamentary Labour Party know that they are going to lose the next election and against such a background, who is going to want to be the Labour Leader ? Anyone who considers themselves as viable will hold off until after the expected election defeat when Brown leaves public life so that they can portray themselves as the “Saviour of Labour” rather than the one who led them into the wilderness.
But they need to be just a little careful here because although not restricted to just one party, following the Expenses Scandals, I would not be too surprised to see “Portillo Moments” for a number of existing MPs with Labour taking the brunt of it as the voters push home their current advantage over politicians.
A Total Lack of Political Judgement
We all know that Brown has no political judgement at all, he has no feel for the Zeitgeist and seems generally incapable of seeing past the inside of his own eyelids. Now both Hewitt and Hoon have clearly demonstrated that they too have none because to launch this kind of initiative at this time is bizarre to say the least if only because it is just so introverted.
The public just don’t give a fig about the internal machinations of any political party as the dying years of the Major Government showed, all they care about is picking someone who can get the job done and not only has Brown proved he can’t, the Labour Party has shown that it too is full of total incompetents who can’t deliver either.
Frankly it is all very funny but all it will do is make the electorate hungrier for the General Election to be called so that they can vote Labour out. As I keep saying, Brown has an Albatross tied around his neck, he not only lacks political nous but is also a bad luck magnet and I suspect that this is just one of several unexpected upsets that will assail him between now and polling day, he really should have gone to the Country last Autumn.
Footnote 7/01/2010
I wrote the above on the day of this fiasco but a day later, one of the most intelligent articles is by Benedict Brogan in the Telegraph, worth a read I might suggest.
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