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Friday, September 08, 2006

implosion

have to hand it to new and old labour they are determined to throw it all away.
true tony blair started it all by stupidly saying he wasn't going to stand for a fourth term, done perhaps to stop the hemorrhaging of new labour supporters in the wake of the iraq war.
the idea being that there would be an orderly and smooth transition from him to gordon brown, with blair establishing a framework in which brown would at least have to start the job in.
ah well all the best laid plans of mice and men eh.

well it seems that neither brown or blair can actually count on the party making sure either one of them gets out of this without being bruised and bloody.
if they are not briefing against blair they are for brown, if they are against brown they are for blair. even worse there are all those "old" labour boys who are now coming out of the woodwork to say actually we don't want tony and we don't want gordon - but actually we don't have anyone that anyone knows to lead the party. so what we would rather do is commit mass suicide as a political party and let the conservatives in for a few years.
hah that will show people that they need us.

maybe it is a plan but it is a stupid one.

recently it has struck me that most politicians aren't in it to change the world. they are like me they want a steady income, they want to be able to pay their bills.
this means that in cases like this all the labour mps are jockeying for position to make sure that they have a job when the dust settles.
just for that alone i want to see most of them be bitch slapped.

meanwhile david cameron is rubbing his hands in glee (as is jay , everyone's favourite brown-shirted hobbit)as he knows that however it ends the transition of power in the labour party will have weakened the winner.

i hope you are happy with yourselves messrs clarke, milburn, byers, balls et al.

you can check out one of the alternatives to gordon brown over here, sadly the "john 4 leader" address leaves me chuckling as i surely don't want to be in his gang!

3 comments:

ems said...

I knew it wouldn't be long before you'd be blogging on this one. I've been waiting! It's the journalists who really make me laugh. They love it. They're running around giggling and conspiring and making it into all such a massive deal. I'm afraid to say I cannot even get animated on this one. Thoroughly boring and depressing.

Hobbit's Journal said...

Brown shirted Hobbits of the world unite! Our time is now.

Mr Blair looks haggard these days, poor chap as I sort of like him really, shame about the rest of them.

My jury is still out on Cameron, we need a stronger leader.

Josh Gaffin said...

See, what we need here in the United States is a Monster Raving Loony Party like the UK. I love that a country can officially vote for a party with lots of derogatory words in one name.

Come to think of it, the United States has two of those parties. One is actually running the country now.