Why did Gordon change his Iraq timetable?

Tiberius

Well Liam Fox has just said in no uncertain terms how he views this announcment. Isn't even Brown pushing his luck with such an indisputable piece of inauthenticity?

albert hammond bootleg

this is such a blantant attempt to dominate the front pages I almost feel embarrassed for Mr Brown, until I remember he's responsible for the gross underfunding of the military. The tories ought to make more of this.

David Lindsay

Today's announcement is of course to be welcomed. But since it is now entirely obvious that we are already embarked on a process of unconditional withdrawal, why is that process not simply changed to an event, and an immediate event at that? What are we waiting for? As for "upstaging" Cameron, are you serious? What on earth could any speech of Cameron's possibly contain that required to be "upstaged"? Brown knows that the Tories not only will not win the next General Election, but actually cannot do so, as a matter of psephological fact. So, like two Tory MPs as much as anyone else, he is treating them as the electoral and political irrelevance that they are. He is simply getting on with government as usual, as if the Tories did not exist, which they might as well not. If you don't believe this, then just ask Patrick Mercer or John Bercow. But the question remains, if there can never be another Tory Government, then why bother having a Labour Party?