Sooo Sorry

Did Gordon Brown sound like a Prime Minister or a lovesick teenager when he pleaded with his MPs to be allowed to stay at the party? Does the fact that he is willing to learn from his mistakes fill you with confidence? or despair! Neil Kinnock, not wishing to keep the title of the worse leader that the Labour party has ever had, has spoken out in his defence. That should have sent enough fears through the Labour back benchers to have dumped this wee timid beastie. Of course Neil's wife has just landed herself a job in the cabinet, unelected, of course, and a seat in the House of Lords, so he wouldn't be wanting to step on her toes, would he? 

The facts are, and Gordon knows it, if he stood down then there would be little chance of holding out until next year for a General election. With the current state of the economy and the MPs greed still fresh in the publics mind there is every chance that the labour party would be banished to the fringes of political life from which it would take at least a generation to recover. And who, of the hopeful leaders to be would want to lead the party into the wilderness? Certainly not Alan Johnson. He sees himself as the next leader of the Labour party, but not until after the next election. He knows that labour can't win the next election, whenever it is called, but at least he would be able to start afresh and leave the blame at Gordon's feet.

From all reports it has been the night of the long knives, but in reverse, with the bully boys threatening the back benchers of isolation from the party machine if they continue to demand that GB steps down. Well, I would have thought that might be a good idea, to isolate yourself from the party machine just at the moment. at least Hazel Blears thinks so. Off she goes to reconnect with her roots. The last thing she wants at the moment is to have either GB or one of his new second rate Ministers coming along to remind her constituents just what she has been part of for the last few years.

It is common knowledge that Brown is indecisive. It appears that he cannot even decide to go home back to Scotland now that the party is over. He is hanging about waiting for the music to stop, offering to help tidy up, with the hope that he will remain on the guest list. 

I have some advice for those labour MPs that think he should go. Start your own party. David Cameron seems to be making a good show of holding a shadow government together. I would suggest that the cabinet Ministers that have resigned of late form their own little shadow cabinet. Forget GB, let him fret and sulk. Tell the public what needs to be done to get both the country and the labour party out of the mess they have got us into. Support the back benchers in their Constituencies. Ask the type of questions at PMQT that will make Gordon squirm. Formulate policy and declare it to the world. At the worse Gordon will copy your ideas, at the best he will be seen as the lost leader that he is, with a public recognition that labour might be worth voting for next time round, with another leader of course.