The worst possible start for Brown
Matthew d'Ancona 6:52pmI started the day unsure that the political landscape had changed but 12 hours is a long time in politics. Few moments deserve to be called historic, but the fall of Scotland to the SNP is amongst them. In theory this brings Scottish independence closer than at any time since the Home Rule Bill of 1913. But its greater significance is personal. However he wriggles and squirms, Gordon Brown cannot escape the tartan brush with which he has just been rudely tarred. Scotland was meant to be his fiefdom and it has fallen out of Labour hands – just as Dunfermline and West Fife, which Labour lost in a by-election in February 2006, was meant to be Mr Brown’s back-yard. Could there be a worse way to begin a premiership?
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hogarth zombie
May 5th, 2007 8:40am Report this commentYes, there could - by being crowned, with not even Charles Clarke having the guts to put Brown to the test. Pitiful stuff.
Gavin
May 5th, 2007 1:26pm Report this commentAdded to that this has all happened whilst the economy is pretty rosy. If the economy has an unexpected hiccup in the next 12 months I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of his royal highness Gordon the First. No wonder he's not talking to anyone.
A Brown
May 6th, 2007 10:26pm Report this commentOr maybe he'll be heartened that even when Jack McConnell, the latest in a line of dingbat Labour First Ministers is in charge, Labour only lose power by one seat
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