Hey it doesn't even cost any money now does it? (how would I know? I live in the South West, the zeitgeist capital of noughties low carbon free-thinking). However I thought this piece from the Standard was pretty coherent: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23767702-power-turns-to-pity-as-brown-gets-it-all-wrong.do
Of course, it's tactical retreat stuff - Labour will lose the next election - but it doesn't have to be the massacre circa 1997 for the Tories. Labour have (some) stuff to be proud of, need recharging and can come back with something better in four years. The best us left-leaning folk can hope for, I guess (although whether the Labour party are "left-leaning" anymore is another debate in itself).
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Is there something to be said for the US model of government where terms in office are limited to set periods (not at the whim of the party in power to call an election when they want to or have to because time is up) and as a voter you know who will be leader for the duration of the term? The ability to easily remove a leader in power means that instead of getting on with the job there is an industry created around speculation of leadership challenges etc. Nothing GB can do now will have any great reversal on the public's opinion of him.
ReplyDeleteI have to say I think Brown is alright. The media hate him cause he's not a face man like Blair. But then they'd probably hate him anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe call thing was a dirty business. Typical Sun. And he makes a spelling mistake in a handwritten letter. So what? He's a busy guy with one eye writing a personal letter. It shows what sort of people are behind these newspapers...
Which of course is Murdoch, the ultimate corrupt bully out to use his papers to promote the political party that will most further his commercial interested, and that is now the Tories. Anything he moves against is probably worth fighting for.
Let's hope Murdoch goes ahead with his plan to charge for on-line content. Then we'll see how many Sun web users are prepared to part with their hard earned for its incisive political analysis.
ReplyDeleteThe Observer was speculating last week that the Sun's rabid pursuit of Brown is very much Murdoch Jnr trying to show he has bigger kahunas than his dad.