Oh Lord, please Brown retire on 'health grounds'!

Gordon Brown should quit and quit now. Can't his advisers persuade him to develop a long dormant dicky heart or perhaps, more credibly, some mental condition. I don't care that pundits will say it would cost the Labour Party the next general election. They have already lost the next General Election. The public of Britain can't wait to get rid of them. Not because the Tories will be any better but simply because they are anybody but the Incapability Brown/Scrounger Smith/Manipulative McNulty/ New (and hopelessly adrift) Labour. Labour desperately needs renewal. It needs to find a path of honour and decency and with this gaggle of clowns and rank amateurs at the helm it is simply floating along, its only target the sole object of re-election.






Brown has no judgement. Not a scrap. Now the idiot is digging his heels in and defending his proposed quick fix for MPs expenses with a standard attendance allowance. Can he not see how the public would perceive that? Has he not taken soundings from the European Parliament where such a system is already in place? SISO they call it there. Sign in and Sod off. How is that going to restore the image of our tarnished politicians. The current system is dreadful but it is right that an alternative be properly thought out and intelligently implemented by a commission set up to fully research the task. Why does Brown think his quick fixes will not be seen through as an attempt to prop up his ailing party?.



Then back to the Damian McBride issue and Brown's belated apology on a building site for something he knew nothing about and was horrified to discover. Ian Hislop on this week's 'Have I got news for you?' almost blatantly accused Brown of lying. It beggars belief, he said, that a personal advisor can sit in the same room coming up with fancy schemes to discredit the opposition and his boss knows nothing about them. And it does. As I have said in earlier posts, once a plotter always a plotter. Brown's wonderful line showing his mastery of the situation was replayed to hoots of laughter in the studio. "I am prepared to take full personal responsibility for what has happened, and therefore the person responsible has been dismissed." If only!!



Frankly Brown's attempts at being Prime Minister are rapidly becoming a joke. He may see his future as world economic guru but his attempts at running the nation are rapidly subsiding into farce. There have been rumours for some months of a potential leadership challenge very soon. Normally these things subside to nothing and are stuff of the Fleet Street rumour mill but I believe there are many Labour MPs who believe as I do that the government is probably doomed anyway but absolutely for sure under this guy.



Blair's warnings about allowing Brown into this job have been borne out with interest. Rarely has a politician been found so wanting. The sad fact is that, should a successful challenge take place, it will simply produce more of the same and not the renewal that the REAL Labour Party so desperately needs. I am, however, getting to the point of thinking we who love Labour and its ideal can worry about that later. For now any alternative will do.