Now that the dust is settling after a hectic 24 hours in
There are two obvious reasons for the new (old) look cabinet:
- Gordon Brown has either embraced the status quo, keeping most of the ministers in their original departments, for the sake of consistency.
- Or he has no choice left. The ministers have wrestled the power from the Prime Minister and are now calling the shots.
Furthermore, Mr Brown has attempted to gloss over is impudence by attempting to distract everyone with some left field appointments; Lord Sugar (Lord help us more like) and Glenys Kinnock (this appointment no one saw coming). These "celebrity" appointments have shown that the talent in the current PLP either do not want to work in Gordon Brown's Government or simply just does not exist.
Hopefully the Prime Minister avoided the temptation to call Susan Boyle and Davina McCall...
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Unfortunately it's the latter. Gordon's boxed into a corner and it's going to get increasingly ugly. As the Kaiser Chief's sang: I predict a riot... In fact, I predict a rout: the end of the Labour Party is nigh.
ReplyDeleteWhat I can't fathom is the arrogance of the PLP. Just what are these folks on? Are they utterly eye-wateringly stupid?? Are they suffering from some lemming-syndrome: intent on committing mass suicide just becasue the political pundits predict their electoral defeat? Having brought their demise upon themselves with their bungled exploitation of a louche expenses system (ok ok so I know this was a cross-party practice) - they then adopt the 'wasn't me' approach. This is a world-view shared by my 6 yr old who will cry: 'It wasn't me - a bad boy did it and ran away'...
Only problem for Gordon: he might be cast in the role as 'bad boy' but he can't run away. It's his role - his destiny? - to take the beatings til he's booted out.
And they boot him out - who's the obvious successor? I don't see any talent jumping forward to take up the cudgels... no obvious thinkers... no policies... no obvious political strategies...
Ugh I despair.
From the headiness of hope that electoral success in '98 brought, to this. Nowt. Worse than nowt. The Blair Project has finally dealt the death blow to the Labour Party...
Like the blog by the way...