Will the Labour press decide Brown has to go?

Stronghold Barricades

Spineless is about right

That's why they are incapable of making decisions and Brown is shown to be a ditherer

A.F

They are already talking of offering a pact with the Libdems,or erecting the "big tent"thats how confident Brown is.(radio4)

Dirty Euro

My advise for the PM would be too start his slogan of experience again, and talk about the economy.
This expenses stuff just seems to hit the government even when it is tories. When labour are in opposition we should be corrupt and the tories will get the blame as the government.
It seems to help the opposition in having corrupt mps even when those corrupt mps are on the oppositions benches bizzare as it may seem.
It sickens me people want euro skeptics and tax cuts for the rich. What a nightmare.
Bill cash was a euroskeptic tax cutter.
Maybe independence form this right wing nation is right idea after all. Maybe England is always going to be a right wing euroskeptic nation i don't relate to in any way.

Trumpeter Lanfried

This is the 493rd article by Polly Toynbee in which she announces Labour's Last Chance. See this week's Private Eye.

Sally Chatterjee

Brown will linger on. Half the Cabinet seem spineless and those with any ambition of leadership must know they will inherit a shipwreck of a party that is close to bankruptcy, both financially and morally.

KMcC

Cripes - Polly's been declaring Labour's last chance weekly for the last two years. If only it were true

AuldCurmudfeon

It's time for another fightback. The Beatles had Revolution Number 9, Gordon should have Fightback Number 22. Here's the previous 21 for those who missed them...

August 5, 2007 Foot and mouth fightback
September 3, 2007 GOATs fightback
September 4, 2007 I'm like Margaret Thatcher fightback
October 9, 2007 Election that never was fightback
November 5, 2007 Slash immigration fightback
November 25, 2007 Long term jobless fightback
December 8, 2007 Tears of 10p rage fightback
December 23, 2007 Back to roots fightback
January 7, 2008 The NHS fightback
May 4, 2008 Local election fightback
May 18, 2008 Queen's Speech fightback
May 21, 2008 Crewe and Nantwich fightback
August 4, 2008 Wandering Cabinet fightback
September 1, 2008 Spank the gloomy Chancellor fightback
September 18, 2008 Banking panic fightback
September 19, 2008 Screw Milliband fightback
September 23, 2008 No time for novices fightback
October 7, 2008 Queen's Speech fightback service patch 1
March 11, 2009 New Labour not dead fightback
April 2, 2009 G20 Fightback
May 6, 2009 You Tube Fightback

Victor, NW Kent

I doubt that Clegg and Cable will be eager to join Brown and Labour in their descent into Hades.

But, who knows - PR is a potent hallucinatory drug.

Steve.W

As always with Polly Toynbee the best bit is reading the reaction to her words of wisdom, the Comment is free section. I've got the garden to do so I've only skimmed through but the Toynbee idea of dumping Mr McEyebags and hanging onto power via some PR fiddle does not go down well with the crowd. The PM is not the whole problem only a part of it. Nulabour with any leader has got it coming, about time too.

drakes drum

While stitching up the hand of a 75 year old Devon farmer, who cut it on a gate whilst working cattle, the rural doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.

Eventually the topic got around to Gordon Brown and his appointment as Prime Minister.

"Well, you know," drawled the old farmer, "this Brown fellow is what they call a "fencepost tortoise".

Not being familiar with the term the doctor asked him what a "fencepost tortoise" was.

The old farmer said, "When you're driving along a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top - that's called a fencepost tortoise."

The old farmer saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain, "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he definitely doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there and you just have to wonder what kind of idiot put him up there in the first place."

strapworld

I do hope Clegg does join a pact. That will be then end of them then.

I cannot see Cable saying NO to Chancellor, pact or no pact!

Andy

Since Labour couldn't organise a bunfight in a bakery, a successful coup seems unlikely.

Mark C

Ms Toynbee has given Brown several "last" chances. She flips and flops more often than Hazel Blears. See Guido and the current Private Eye.

Jeremy

I don't think that any attempt to reform the voting system should be made until after the next General Election. Why not? Because any attempt at voting reform made by this Parliament will carry with it neither the confidence nor the will of the people as expressed through the ballot box. This is now a discredited Parliament and a discredited government. So that any attempt to reform the voting sustem made by this Parliament and government will be seen - and rightly so, in my view - as simply another attempt by the current "political class" to garrymander the system in its own favour.

What mandate do Labour, the Liberal Democrats or the Tories have to make such changes before the next General Election? They have no mandate whatsoever.

Mitch

I know !! Gordon can announce some brilliant new legislation that will hold the country spellbound........banning carrier bags again anyone hahahahaha.

Its just his time to go, he came he saw he failed miserably....next.

ButcombeMan

If Clegg allows some sort of connect up with Brown, to keep the dead corpse of Labour alive, it will be the end of the LibDems as well.

David Ossitt

I have just read the link above to the screaming-hinny that is 'Polly Toynbee' what a dreadful woman.

What an awful turncoat; she told us time and again that Brown was a superb leader, and now she twists the knife in his back, how loyal, how lovely, how new labour.

Itza

Why cannot Parliament be made to sit and work throughout the holiday period so that they can get this mess sorted out properly?
Then those who are not going to sit due to their greed and the fact that the people they represent don't want them any longer can be made to go immediately. Why should we pay them loads of money to leave of their own accord. Change the rules immediately and they can go without any recompense.
You know it makes sense (except to Geordie anyhow)

David Staples

If I were Gordon, I really wouldn't stress the economy that much. People might just wonder who it was who was Chancellor from 1997 to 2007. The reasonable economic state Brown inherited has long been squandered away in a "spend, spend, spend" frenzy.

Which is fine. AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THE MONEY.

We don't.

Roy Newman

Mr Brown - in the name of GOD go the nation can hardly stand any more of this farce you preside over.

Nicholas

AuldCurmudfeon (which should probably be AuldCurmudgeon?) - the "fightback" list is priceless, thank you. ROTFLMAO. It is the sort of thing the media should be ripping into useless, egotistical Brown for - but aren't. The British seem to have lost their disdain for tyrants.

What a pity we don't still have Punch magazine to really let der balloon in der bunker have it. The Spectator and Standpoint could do with employing much more savage cartoonists.

Scot Richards

Nicholas. Yes, like you I bemoan the lack of humour in today's politics. Matt at the Telegraph is pretty good and of course Scarfe is the master. But there is an underground current of humour in the blogs. Google Major Plonquer. Hilarious.

Jim Taylor

Lack of humour in today's politics??

You obviously missed the Andrew Marr show today. The interview with Gordon Brown was the funniest thing since Fawlty Towers. The man really is a joke, isn't he? Future generations will wonder however he got to be an MP, let alone Prime Minister.